Mixed Diddy Verdict, Big Beautiful Bill Chaos, Frost Smacks GOP & CBC vs Big Ugly Bill

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Speaker 1 (00:23):
Hey f on today's Wednesday, July second, twenty twenty five,
coming up of Roland Martin unfilch trip streming live on
the Blackstart Network. A bombshell decision in New York City
federal trial with Sean Dinny Cumbs acquitted on three of
the charges and found guilty on two lesser charges. Also
the judge just denied him bail. We'll talk to Leo

(00:44):
als Cannas Kelly journalist Jasmine Simpicons.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
Both who have been covering the trial for the duration.

Speaker 1 (00:49):
House Republicans are desperately trying to corral their members to
pass the so called Big Beautiful Bill of Donald Trump.
The opponents called the Big Ugly disa asterisk bill.

Speaker 2 (01:01):
They've been holding the vote open for three hours.

Speaker 1 (01:03):
In less than an hour, the Congressional Black Caukers will
be holding an emergency rally on the U outside of
the US Capital. Will be live from there as well.
Folks doing nearly twelve hour House Rules committed hearing last night,
which we care on the show port the Congress and
Maxwell Frost boy he hit a nerve with the Republicans,
will show you what went down. Lots to talk about, folks,

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though he's rolling.

Speaker 1 (02:21):
Folk Tonato, New York City Federal trial Sean Diddy Combs.
He was found guilty on two lesser charges of the
Man Act Transportation to an engage in prostitution of Cassandra
vn Sure That was count three. Also on count five
uh engaged in prostitution with former girlfriend Jane. That was
the pseud name in which she testified in court. But

(02:42):
the more serious charges Count one recordeering conspiracy, not guilty
Count three. First of all, that account that was count one.
Count four that dealt with sex trafficking by force, fraud
or corsion of former girlfriend Jane. Again not guilty on
that particular charge. Again five total charges. He was found

(03:02):
not guilty on three of those, the most important one
was the Rico one that was count one again guilty.
First of all, you take count two not guilty that
dealt with sex trafficking by force for acrision of Cassandra Ventura.
Again just two of those charges. Now did his lawyer
wanted him to be released. They wanted to work on

(03:23):
some kind of arrangement. After the verdicts were read, he
turned to his family and said, I'm coming home.

Speaker 2 (03:29):
Well, no, he's not. The judge rule. He is not
going to be released. His citizening has sent for October third.

Speaker 1 (03:35):
Cannas Kelly Legal analysts was following the trial, was in
the courtroom. Jasmine Sipkins journalists was also in the courtroom.
They both join us right now. Cannas walk us through
what happened today this jury was they did the recent
of a decision on four to five yesterday they were
deadlock on one. Came back this morning. Didn't take them
long to come to the conclusion. Let's figure let's knock

(03:58):
out this count one and then it was around ten
am we have the decision.

Speaker 6 (04:05):
Yeah, Roland listen. They were in there for about an hour.
And that's what happens when you go home and you
sleep on something, and I think that was the goal.
Maybe they went home said everybody sleep on it, let's
come back, let's reconvene, let's see where we stand.

Speaker 7 (04:18):
And they stood on this final verdict, which was, as.

Speaker 6 (04:21):
You said, no sex trafficking, no reco but the two
counts of prostitution stuck. So and this is what happens
when you get twelve people into a room from different backgrounds.

Speaker 7 (04:31):
Tried to get a decision made.

Speaker 6 (04:32):
It turned out this way a little earlier than I
think a lot of us would have ever imagined, especially
since they went home last night. But that verdict is out,
and certainly this is something that the defenses as a win.
We haven't gone to sentencing yet, and that's when we
will really know, depending upon how much jail time he gets.

Speaker 2 (04:48):
Roland give us a sense of demeanor. We understand that.

Speaker 1 (04:52):
Prior to the jury coming back with vert today, Shawn
Colmbs asked the US Marshals he could pray with his family.

Speaker 2 (04:59):
They allow that to happen, So.

Speaker 1 (05:02):
Walk us through what just to paint the picture for us,
because no cameras were allowed in the federal court room.

Speaker 6 (05:08):
So listen, there have been a couple of times this
week where there have been prayers, circle prayers. He gets
to spend quite a bit of time with his family
inside the courtroom when everything is wrapped up.

Speaker 7 (05:19):
But today was really something when that verdict came.

Speaker 6 (05:22):
From what I understand because I was outside and sometimes
in the overflow room when that came, he got down
on his knees and he's prayed as did not guilties came.
He was pumping that fist in the air until the
guilties came, and then he was really had a just
sunken shoulders and was very surprised about this, but he
believed that this was a win.

Speaker 7 (05:45):
He kissed Tinny Garrogos on her cheek.

Speaker 6 (05:48):
Everybody came around and was rallying around him and saying,
we won Dream Team, Dream Team, We're a dream team.

Speaker 7 (05:55):
So there was a lot of excitement in the air.
When Jenis Colmes came out.

Speaker 6 (05:59):
When I was standing out side, people clapped, people were cheering,
people were, as you probably have heard, had body oil
and baby oil that they were spraying in the air.
There were more free puffy T shirts. People were dressed
to the nines and the tens and this was a
big deal. Sean Colmbs's music was being played, and for
those people who were there, whether they were bloggers or

(06:20):
were they were reporters.

Speaker 7 (06:21):
And just caught up in the scene, it was quite
a scene to be caught up.

Speaker 6 (06:25):
And for a very long time now they all thought that,
of course, hey, if he was not going to have
to stay in jail, that he would walk out. I
don't know why people were waiting for this shot. That's
not how it works. He'd still have to go check
out of the detention center. But the bottom line, as
you says, that he didn't get bail anyway, so all
he's going to do is going to be waiting until
October twenty October third, when the sentencing will be happening.

Speaker 1 (06:49):
Jas when we saw that artistic rendering and we could
pull it up again of Diddy on his knees, pounding
the cheer. Take us through that from your vantage point,
what you saw. Describe for us what it was like,
the jury, the prosecutors, the judge, did he his family, witnesses.

Speaker 8 (07:10):
My time in the court room and obviously also in
the overflowing room. We've gotten a chance to see his demeanor,
you know, be up and down some days. He looks
a little lethargic like he was definitely got a little
trial fatigue, as I've been calling it other days, He's
a little bit more jovial, laughing talking to his family.
It wasn't shocking though, especially hearing some of his family

(07:30):
members members of his pr team talk about how he's
been very much reading his Bible, reading books about manifestation.
So for him to get down on his knees, we
know he's been a man, you know, talked about his
faith over the years, so that wasn't shocking. And it
also isn't shocking to see defendants have a reaction right

(07:50):
like this when a verdict just called, be it guilty
or not in the courtroom, So I don't think.

Speaker 7 (07:55):
Anyone was shocked.

Speaker 8 (07:56):
His family, obviously, was still very excited and happy and
hoping that the judge would grant him bail, but that
did not happen today. But I think he still feels
like this is a win. His team feels like this
is a win, and they're hoping for the least amount
of time when sentencing is hand handed over on October third.

Speaker 2 (08:17):
This of course was up and down.

Speaker 1 (08:19):
I've seen a number of legal analysts rip this prosecution
team and simply say, can is that their evidence was
absolutely weak when it came to the Rico charge.

Speaker 6 (08:29):
Well, listen, the regal charge is something that if you're
going to be seeing in a jury, you were going
to have to really become like a mini law student.
There were eight underlying charges that they had to understand,
of which they had to get two over a period
of ten years in order to get to the RICO
I think what's very very interesting is that there were
two credited charges that were reached. That was the sex trafficking.
I'm sex, not sex trafficking, the prostitution, right, we have

(08:52):
those two. I do not think that they really believed
in this idea of rigal. There's a real relatability issue
and people think thinking that this is an overcharge and
why are you going to step into someone's bedroom and
decide somebody's private relationship. As they said in the closing arguments,
that this was just a modern day love story. And

(09:12):
on the prosecution side, yes, many people have said that
this was an overcharge. Why Rico, you are telling me
that this particular enterprise as you called it, only existed
for the purposes of SEANCOHM to carry out these particular
acts well, when you look at his business that was
a one point worth one billion dollars, that's really really
difficult for a lot of people to try to believe

(09:34):
and take in. So I think that there were a
couple of things that really spoke loudly, and again, one
that was the recal and the relatability. The other thing
is you just had the digital footprint. You had so
many texts that made it really hard to discern. Was
this just two lovers that were that's how they ran
their relationship? They were always mad at each other and
then making up and then mad at each other and

(09:56):
then becoming one as the defense said that they they
became one in all their decisions.

Speaker 7 (10:02):
Were they just this.

Speaker 6 (10:03):
Couple that that's how they lived out there their journey
as a couple. So there are a lot of things
for the jury to consider, and at the end of
the day, they just did not believe the witnesses because
because they had they believed them, they definitely would have
gotten the RICO.

Speaker 1 (10:20):
They did not jasmine. First of all, the scene outside
flat out circus.

Speaker 8 (10:27):
It's been that way though, I would say, I mean,
definitely there were days that were there there was less
hubob outside of the courthouse, but this was part for
the chorus. Listen from the moment this, this whole the
indictment was handed down words like freak off nine hundred
bottles of baby oil. It was very sensational, right, and
so I wouldn't have expected less from what we saw

(10:51):
over these seven to ten weeks. And to see fans
outside chanting. He still has a lot of people who
believe he should be free. Also there's a lot of
people who believe he should be incarcerated. But to see
the fans outside, to hear that people are playing music,
the freak Go, not Rico T shirts, the baby oil,
to me, it falls in line with the sensationalism that

(11:12):
we've seen in this trial since the very beginning.

Speaker 1 (11:15):
Attorney's Matt Manning's the rich attorney out of Cooper's Christy, Texas.
Also a Scott Bolden attorney out of Washington, d C. Scott,
I want to go to you first the point that
Canice there made look, they had to make the connection.
And then when they had the testimony, those text messages
of both women talking about these freak colls or these
sexual escapades, that it made their case real difficult to say.

Speaker 2 (11:40):
It was coercion.

Speaker 9 (11:42):
Well, the witnesses also had real credibility issues.

Speaker 10 (11:47):
I mean some of the witnesses have been abused and
went back for more.

Speaker 9 (11:52):
They voluntarily played in these freak colls and so they
lacked credibility.

Speaker 10 (11:57):
Remember these were all adults, adults who are participating in this.

Speaker 9 (12:02):
They really convicted Sean Puffy Comb's being a sexual deviant
and having a wild sex life, but they didn't convict
him of a crime because it wasn't sexual trafficking, it
wasn't rico. Because he's got a music business. He didn't
need these free costs in order to run his music business,
and it was hard. You gotta also remember today is
July second, the holiday is coming up. They didn't deliberate that.

Speaker 10 (12:26):
Long, quite frankly, and so this is a real win
for Sean Puffy Cuff. Remember one other thing too, Your
parents will.

Speaker 9 (12:32):
Remember the Man Act because it covered himps and prostitutes
and then black men who were involved with white women
coming across the line in the thirties, forties, fifties and sixties.
They used this Man Act. But he's never been convicted
of a crime. Why wouldn't they let him go home
on a monitor or with bail.

Speaker 10 (12:50):
That makes no sense. He's only got two.

Speaker 9 (12:53):
Charge felony chargers that observe him. He can get zero
to fifteen years.

Speaker 2 (13:02):
I lost Scott's signal.

Speaker 1 (13:04):
Matt, your assessment of this jury's verdict and the prosecutions,
and there of course their failure, some say, to convict
him on the most serious charges that could have gotten
them life in prison.

Speaker 11 (13:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 12 (13:18):
I think the last time you and I talked about this,
I told you that this is where I thought the
jury might really struggle.

Speaker 13 (13:24):
And I don't know. Obviously, I didn't get a chance.

Speaker 12 (13:26):
To watch the evidence, and I don't know what the
jury said if they were asked about their decision after
the trial. However, I always thought that the difficulty with
this case for the prosecution was it was too nebulous
in terms of the rico. They charged it like it
was to quote, you know, encourage his prestige and his power.
But the reason I think that's difficult is because they

(13:47):
had to relate it back to the Combes enterprise and
further into the goals of the Combess enterprise. And I
just never thought they were going to be able to
get there clearly, and I thought the jury might stick
on that. I don't know if that's the reason they
initially hung up on the Rico charge, But you know,
the not guilties on the three that he got doesn't
surprise me with in terms of how they presented the
evidence and also in terms of exactly what Scott was

(14:10):
speaking to.

Speaker 13 (14:11):
I mean, you not only have people who were potentially consensually.

Speaker 12 (14:14):
Involved, but you have people who were involved and then
left and then came back and you know, left again.
And I think that when you're looking at it from
a doubt perspective, the jurors really had to grapple with
is this really in furtherance of some conspiracy or is
this somebody who's just in mister Combs's orbit, who's going.

Speaker 13 (14:31):
To be staying in his orbit? And I think that's
what it was.

Speaker 12 (14:33):
It was a question probably of whether it was really consensual,
whether it was really coercive, and whether people were around
him for some other reason than to extend this conspiracy.
So I'm not surprised on the Rico charge. And a
lot of times what juries do is they try to
find some compromise. So there could have been some jurors
in that jury room who said, we can't let him

(14:53):
go free, you know, on everything. So let's convict him
of these two you know, trans affording for prosecution acts
and go with it from there. And juries are not
supposed to do that, but jury deliberations are secretive, and
I think that very often happens. People feel like they
don't want to let someone go for you know, on everything,
and maybe they thought the evidence on those was strong,

(15:14):
but clearly they didn't think it was on the other charges.

Speaker 13 (15:16):
And I'm not surprised by the outcome, particularly with the
Rico charge.

Speaker 1 (15:21):
I'm going to bring in Rebecca Carruthers as well, but
I'm gonna go to Jasmine, Candice and then Rebecca. I
have seen lots of women, especially black women, Jasmine say, look,
this is a prime example of women getting screwed, women
being abused, men treating them like rag dolls, rag dolls,

(15:43):
and so it's been a lot of this that I've
seen since this verdict came down this morning.

Speaker 2 (15:47):
Jasmin you first, yeah, you know, I.

Speaker 8 (15:50):
Said this too, and during another conversation that I think
that the Me Too movement in twenty seventeen really created
this domino effect where found you saw that a lot
of women, especially women and who've had positions or worked
in the music industry have come forward, and I don't
think this will be the last time that we see
something of this magnitude happened, perhaps of a man of

(16:10):
Sean's stature, because the reality is is that there is
a dark underbelly in Hollywood and we're just now starting
to get this reckoning right where people are starting to
talk about the things that they've experienced and what's been
happening behind closed doors, these casting couches and things of
that nature. And so I think that Cassie Ventura, I
think her ability to speak up her pressing charges, even

(16:35):
if it was just a civil charge, I think, well,
I think we'll motivate other women, you know, to speak
up about some of the things that they've been experiencing
behind closed doors.

Speaker 1 (16:46):
Cannas saying that you one of the things that we
talked about that in many ways, this was a domestic
violence trial.

Speaker 2 (16:52):
But that wasn't. Actually, that wasn't one of the charges.
Oh they didn't charging with that candis.

Speaker 10 (16:58):
Right, It wasn't.

Speaker 6 (17:00):
It wasn't one of the charges, and the statute of
limitations had run and it was a state issue. So yes,
that is that But the reason they brought it up
is because on that particular day they say that when
Cassie was being dragged back to that room, there was
a freak off that was going off in that room,
and there were other people that corroborated her testimony to
say that, yes, there was a mail in there. They

(17:21):
were in the middle of a freak off. She was
trying to get a way, and that's where their coercion
would come in. And so that's why when a lot
of people talk about that assault video and say, well,
why was it even in there, that's why, because the
prosecution did a very good job of connecting the dots.
But I will say this too. In their closing the defense,
they showed that exact same video after the dragging and

(17:42):
showed Cassie in a very calm state talking and they said,
that's the part that you need to look at. Does
she look scared? So you know, you can go back
and forth and make your case. That's what good attorneys do.
There are a lot of good attorneys here. But when
we think about that domestic violence issue, that's why the
prosecution brought it in and, like I said, did a
very good job.

Speaker 2 (18:02):
Rebecca.

Speaker 14 (18:05):
You know, I'm struggling with this a bit, especially with
some of the rhetoric that I've seen online, the rhetoric
I've heard from associates. Quite frankly, it seems like many
in our community don't understand sexual violence and don't understand
what monsters look like, and in my opinion, Sean.

Speaker 15 (18:22):
Colmes is a monster.

Speaker 14 (18:24):
My question specifically is about the forensic psychologist, doctor Don Hughes.
Do you all think that she was brought in too
early and maybe she should have been like a summary
witness and maybe been like maybe the penultimate witness before
the state closed.

Speaker 7 (18:45):
Cannis.

Speaker 8 (18:46):
Do you want to take that one or you want me?
I think that they put on thirty four witnesses. They
started off strong. In my personal opinion, I think it
started to phizzle after a while. You could even see
the jurors were bored. I mean at some points they
were yawning, or their hand down or their head down.
Sean himself had his head down. I mean it was
these were long days of long testimonies. I don't know

(19:09):
if juxtaposing her at a different point would have helped.
I just don't think they were buying this idea as
you guys have said of the Rico just I don't
think they were able to connect those dots. It is
very difficult and there's a lot of gray area when
it came to his relationships with these women.

Speaker 7 (19:26):
Jane, in my opinion, was a horrible witness to put on.

Speaker 8 (19:29):
She did not come off as compassionate as Cassie did
not to mention, there were so many inconsistencies and the
things that she said, and at the end of it,
it sounded like she was more motivated by money than
anything else, and I think that was very damaging for
the prosecution having her on the stand. So I don't
necessarily know that having this her come in earlier would

(19:49):
have helped any as it pertained to getting the rico charge.

Speaker 16 (19:53):
Can I jump in for a moment and just say
that you.

Speaker 10 (19:58):
Can just go ahead, listen.

Speaker 6 (20:00):
There was a real strategy issue in terms of the
clock that the prosecution had to think about because Cassie
was pregnant, so she had to go first.

Speaker 7 (20:07):
Right and because of that, they had to put Don
Hughes next.

Speaker 6 (20:11):
To her or some within two or three witness of
her so that they would remember and connect the dots
that here's the domestic violence victim. Here's the person who
stayed even though she sent these loving texts and was
also you know, assaulted and said she was raped. Here's
someone who now is going to explain that. And because
she was early Cassie, they had to put down early.
So I see your point, and that over seven weeks

(20:33):
you can forget a lot of that details.

Speaker 7 (20:35):
What I didn't see as much of as that I
would have liked.

Speaker 6 (20:38):
In the closing for the prosecution is making that point
that the reason why you're seeing somebody these women who
look absolutely confused, I love them, I don't love him.
I was raped, I wasn't raped. You know, let's make
love I love you. I mean, it was so many
text messages that you just wondered they should have given
more credence and put more of Dawn Hughes in that

(21:01):
closing statement in order to drive the point home if
they wanted to make sure that in that deliberation room
they remembered, Ah, this is how a victim who is
in a position where she is lower in the power
chain actually acts.

Speaker 2 (21:15):
Gotten Yeah, yeah, real quick.

Speaker 9 (21:18):
As a former sex times prosecutor from New York having
tried several of these cases, these cases are tough you
got a sophisticated jury from New York. I'm not saying
it's right, but the credibility of the women who are
abused and who have taken advantage of the problem with
them having a prior relationship is because prior relationships are imperfect.

(21:39):
Love and sex relationships are imperfect, and New Yorkers as
a sophisticated jury.

Speaker 10 (21:45):
They have their view of the world.

Speaker 17 (21:47):
These cases aren't going to be perfect as if you're
trying them in Kansas. And yet and still many of
these victims will walk away from even going forward with
the prosecution.

Speaker 10 (21:57):
So I plugged these women who went forward.

Speaker 9 (22:00):
But the evidence and the Texas and the lack of credibility,
it's just hard to get a conviction even though they're
telling the truth, and they're all telling the truth.

Speaker 10 (22:11):
It's just that the standard of proven the case beyond
a reasonable doubt.

Speaker 9 (22:15):
In the face of their cross examination and lack of credibility,
it makes it really, really tough to get a conviction.

Speaker 10 (22:22):
Either the standard's got to change or the evidence has
got to change.

Speaker 9 (22:27):
When women who are abused to say I'm going to
go forward, it may be too late to get a conviction.

Speaker 1 (22:34):
Final comment from Jazzmine. Final comment from Candice Jasmine.

Speaker 8 (22:39):
First, you know, I think my biggest takeaway from all
this is that we don't know what victims of domestic
violence look like, looks like.

Speaker 15 (22:47):
We don't always know what people are going through.

Speaker 8 (22:49):
I've interviewed Cassie several times over the years, specifically two
days after she was assaulted by Diddy in that hall
way and the Intercontinental Hotel, and to see how she
has on a brave face, glistening with bronzer, that they
had covered all of her bruises up a black eye,
that she had faced such a horrific evening with this

(23:09):
man and still walked the red carpet, talked with such
enthusiasm about her film was hand in hand with him.

Speaker 7 (23:17):
Was a reminder to.

Speaker 8 (23:18):
Me that we always don't know what people are going through,
but to be compassionate, and also a reminder, as I've
said earlier, that we don't really know what's going on
behind closed doors. And we can idolize somebody for being
a billionaire and for making all these hit records, but
we have to remember that they are human, they've got flaws,
and this fall from Grace, I hope shows people that

(23:39):
there's a lot that we still don't know about the
entertainment industry, and I think a lot more that's going
to come out very soon.

Speaker 2 (23:46):
Candice, Well, listen.

Speaker 7 (23:48):
October third will be today.

Speaker 6 (23:49):
His attorneys have I've even proposed about twenty one to
twenty seven months based upon the federal sentencing guidelines. We
will see, and that's really when we will see what
this means. He's going to get ten months time served.
He may not even be there for that long. What
people have been talking about in terms of this being
like a hip hop reckoning, and he's the first person
to actually go down.

Speaker 7 (24:09):
You know, people move the culture and the culture move
the people. We are now and not a post me too.

Speaker 6 (24:15):
Movement culture, But we are definitely in a different time
than when Harvey Weinstein in twenty twenty was brought up
on charges. So we just have to think about how
we actually are paying attention to the news, how much
we are investing, and how much we understand what we
are seeing on TV and writing about it and what's
in our algorithm. It is very important for us to

(24:36):
understand and make sure that we go to court and
that we pay attention. And I'm just at least glad
that this particular case has brought attention enough to it
so that people are understanding that listen, Rico is out there,
and if he had been convicted, in my opinion, that
would have been a terrible precedent, because there are a
lot of people who have talked to me about, well,
oh my goodness, could that have been me? I did

(24:59):
these little things, and I think that what might have
added up to Rico? You bet your life it probably
would have added up to Rico. This would have been
a terrible precedent. I am not surprised at the outcome
of this particular case.

Speaker 1 (25:09):
Jasmine Simpsons, Cannas Kelly, great job, Canna's great job updating
our view of this trial for the past several leaks.

Speaker 2 (25:16):
We appreciate it.

Speaker 10 (25:17):
Thanks a lot, Thank you.

Speaker 7 (25:18):
All right, thanks shelling.

Speaker 2 (25:19):
Go to our panel.

Speaker 1 (25:20):
Final topic from each one of you on this particular
topic before we go to a break and start talking
about the big, ugly, disastrous deal.

Speaker 2 (25:29):
I'll start with you back.

Speaker 13 (25:31):
You know, I'll say two things can be true.

Speaker 12 (25:33):
At the same time, we should support survivors, we should
support people coming forward with their lived experiences, but also
our system has to function this way.

Speaker 13 (25:42):
It's an imperfect system.

Speaker 12 (25:44):
But when you require unanimity, twelve people in the box
have to see if the evidence gets you there to
a conviction.

Speaker 13 (25:50):
Like Scott, I'm a former prosecutor. I've prosecuted these cases
and defended them. And this is how the system works.

Speaker 12 (25:56):
Somebody said in the twelve people said in the box,
they hurt the evidence and they determined that the churn
just weren't met. And that is a separate conversation from
the very important conversation about supporting victims and supporting survivors. However,
two things can be true at once, and I think
that's what people need to take away from this, because
the opposite of that is disastrous for particularly us as

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black people in the country.

Speaker 13 (26:17):
Meaning if you can get accused and convicted on.

Speaker 12 (26:20):
Innuendo or supposition or the idea that we're just going
to blindly believe complaining witnesses, then we devolve into a
state where somebody can make an accusation against you and
your liberty is taken away purely on accusation.

Speaker 13 (26:32):
And that is not how it works.

Speaker 12 (26:34):
The unanimity of a jury system is a very important
check to power, and in this instance, it looks like
it worked properly Scott.

Speaker 1 (26:41):
As well as they say guilty beyond all reasonable doubt,
that's right, I think.

Speaker 10 (26:49):
I agree with all of my colleagues. I do think
this is a real message to the government.

Speaker 9 (26:54):
The government is constantly trying to expand the reach of
RICO and other jurisdictions, I'm sorry, in other industries, not
just of the mafioso, and they've tried to do it
with mixed success.

Speaker 10 (27:08):
And I really think this is a message to them.

Speaker 18 (27:11):
That they need to think long and hard and twice
if they're going to bring this type of case in
this type of kind of sexual circumstance, because it's tough
because it's a prior relationship.

Speaker 10 (27:22):
I would urge I support victims of domestic violence.

Speaker 19 (27:26):
I prosecuted those cases, and I would just urge those
who have been abused to come forward sooner than later,
because sometimes when it's later, there's too much evidence.

Speaker 9 (27:39):
And lacking credibility that makes a case like this allows the.

Speaker 10 (27:44):
Prosecutors to get a conviction.

Speaker 9 (27:46):
These are just facts until either the laws change or
the criminal elements change, and then I change it anytime soon.

Speaker 20 (27:52):
Roland Rebecca.

Speaker 14 (27:55):
So I agree with Scott in part years I was
in law school twenty years ago. The way recal was
defined in and the way it was carried out then
is definitely different than the way it's carried out now,
especially as we see different recal charges against hip hop
and rap artists, especially seeing it moving across the South,

(28:15):
you know it's different. But focusing on domestic violence, I
believe that the domestic violence statute of limitations ran out here,
which is why there wasn't a domestic violence charge. But
we also know I think it's up to one out
of three men are victims of sexual violence, and I
think it's almost one out of two if I remember
those numbers correctly of women are victims of.

Speaker 15 (28:40):
Sexual violence.

Speaker 14 (28:42):
So at some point in this country, Look, this is
not legal advice that I'm giving, but we also have
two a as well, and so unfortunately, when we see
that the criminal legal system doesn't provide the justice for
victims of sexual you sexual assault, then that causes people
to look at other avenues of looking at justice. So

(29:03):
once again, this is not legal advice. I'm not encouraging
people to do or not to do whatever. But I
also understand why there are some family and some folks
who decide to protect their own.

Speaker 1 (29:16):
Gonna go to a quick break where we come back.
We'll talk with Congressman Chantae Brown of Ohio about Republicans.

Speaker 2 (29:24):
Twisting as many arms as possible as we speak, in.

Speaker 1 (29:27):
Order to pass the senior version of what they call
the big ugly, big beautiful Bill, but where Democrats are
calling it the big ugly disastrous Bill. You're watching Roland
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Network this week.

Speaker 21 (29:41):
On the other side of change in mass incarceration.

Speaker 22 (29:44):
Trump administration is doubling down on criminalization and how it
is profitable.

Speaker 23 (29:48):
And there's something really really perverse about saying that we
need to put people in cages in order for other
people to have jobs Like that is not how our
economy should be built.

Speaker 15 (29:57):
Only on the other side of change on the Blackstar.

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Network, pay pretending to be Ruin Martin.

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You ain't got to work black and gold every damn place, okay, Ooh,
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Speaker 2 (30:25):
Folks.

Speaker 1 (30:26):
We showed about eight to ten hours of House Rules
Committee hearing yesterday after even after our show was over,
where they were many Democrats, including mini CBC members. We're
testifying talking about how awful this bill that was passed
in the United States Senate will be when it comes
to Medicaid cuts, snap cuts, and a number of different
things as well. One of the folks who spoke is

(30:47):
Conas's woman, Chantel Brown of Ohio, who joins us right now.
Conin's woman, glad to have you back on the show. Look,
they took, they took, they've taken a vote, they've held
it not open for what three four hours. Uh, they're
trying to twist this many as possible. You've got ten
to twelve by understanding, ten to twelve Republicans will hold
out because they actually think the Senate bill didn't go
far enough. So you got these hardcore conservatives they want

(31:10):
to cut more.

Speaker 11 (31:11):
Now.

Speaker 1 (31:12):
Donald Trump, he's been making calls and one of the
things that I see this one report where they're saying
that he doesn't even know what the hell is in
the bill. He literally apparently accorded this report. He told
the Republicans, if you want to make sure you get reelected,
don't touch Medicaid, Medicare, social Security, and one of the
members said, but this bill does touch medicaid. He doesn't

(31:32):
even know what the hell this bill does.

Speaker 25 (31:35):
Well, when you have a bill that's over nine hundred
pages that has been pushed through overnight and expected to
go through the regular order is what we would refer
to it, and it has not done that, then there
are going to be things that people do not know.

Speaker 11 (31:51):
We know.

Speaker 25 (31:51):
The last time that the Republicans voted on the bill,
they later admitted that there were provisions and things in the.

Speaker 16 (31:58):
Bill that they had not read.

Speaker 25 (32:00):
Because it is not that easy to walk away from
a nine hundred and forty page piece of legislation in
legal LEAs if you will not in every day layman terms,
to be able to understand the ramifications and consequences that
will inevitably happen to the people that they are clearly
targeting in a very clever.

Speaker 15 (32:21):
And sophisticated way.

Speaker 25 (32:22):
Right, the problem is, if this bill passes Roland, it
will be the biggest cut, the biggest cut in our
nation's history to healthcare programs and the SNAP program food assistance.
So we're talking about a trillion dollars taking away from Medicare, Medicaid,
and subsidies for the Affordable Care Act. And what that

(32:46):
means essentially, you may not be on Medicare, you may
not be on Medicaid, you may not be on SNAP.
But what is going to happen as it relates to
your healthcare. It's going to mean that those people who
no longer have insurance are going.

Speaker 15 (32:59):
To not get the health care that they need.

Speaker 25 (33:02):
They're only going to go when they need to go
to the emergency room. That cost is going to be
passed on to all of us. Rural hospitals are going
to close. So this means that it's going to be
less quality care, longer waits, and it's going to cost
us more money. The poor will get poor, the sick
will get sicker, and undoubtedly, but the bottom line is

(33:23):
we're going to create more debt, not just for the people,
but for the country as a whole.

Speaker 1 (33:30):
And what's interesting is that so many Republicans they love
talking about deficit, deficit, deficit. I mean, I saw these
polls from that nutcase from South Carolina and Nancy Base
going on on about the deficit that she's like, let's
pass this beautiful, big, beautiful bill.

Speaker 11 (33:46):
Right, now.

Speaker 15 (33:48):
They have selective amnesia.

Speaker 25 (33:50):
They you know, they campaigned on these promises that they
were going to lower costs, that they were going to
reduce the debt, that they were going to you know,
reduce the deficit, and they have not done that. They
have done everything quite the opposite of that. When you
think about inflation, when you think about Trump's self imposed
tariff war, when you think about these cuts that are

(34:13):
going to really take seventeen million, and that's from a
nonpartisan score that has been given to this bill that's
saying seventeen million people will be kicked off of their healthcare.
Seventeen million people, and that's just I mean, that's going
to have an economic impact. Not only are we just

(34:34):
talking about the fact that again people are going to
have longer wait times, hospitals are going to close. Inevitably,
people will die because of this because they just won't
have access to the healthcare that they need. And Republicans
just seem like they don't care all and all because
they want to give more tax breaks to the wealthiest

(34:57):
among us. We're talking about upwards of a quarter a
quarter million dollars for people in the point one percent,
not one percent, the point one percent will get tax
breaks up to that. Yet you want to take the
six dollars a day away from folks on receiving SNAP benefits.

(35:18):
The math just doesn't math. If the math is wrong,
the morals are wrong. This is unfathomable. And then they
want to also introduce an institute, an unfunded mandate for
states to pick up the bill for some of these
programs like Snap. They just don't have it in their budget.
I came from local government, Rowland, so I know how

(35:39):
difficult it is. So what they're going to be doing
is forcing states to make choices between health care, education,
public safety, all of these things because they want to
give tax breaks to billionaires.

Speaker 1 (35:54):
I'm sure a lot of those folks in Ohio who
were yelling Maga, Maga, Maga, Trump, Trump, Trump, are going
to be shedding orange tears if this bill passes.

Speaker 15 (36:03):
You said it better than I could, Roland.

Speaker 25 (36:05):
I think a lot of people are going to be devastated,
you know, and this for us, For some of us,
I'll speak for some of us. We saw this coming, right,
We warned people that this would be the ultimate plan.
I mean, the man campaigned on some of these things.
But I think that people thought that they would be exempt.
You know, this is something that he was attempting to

(36:26):
do back in twenty and sixteen, which destroying our our
healthcare system. And this is you know, one of the
things I can credit the Republicans about is being relentless
in their pursuit to get things done.

Speaker 15 (36:39):
And so they've been at this for a long time.

Speaker 25 (36:41):
And if this bill passes, they will have successfully be
able to eliminate healthcare for again seventeen million people. And
as a result, hospitals will close because a lot of
these medical institutions depend on these programs to help operate

(37:01):
their facilities, so they will close. And what will end
up happening is everyone will have to pay the cost
for this. And so don't think just because you're not
a recipient of these programs and it is not going
to have an impact on you. As somebody said, wait
five minutes, it will all right.

Speaker 1 (37:21):
Then seventeen minutes, aggression of Black Caucus is holding an
emergency rally on the US Capitol ground.

Speaker 2 (37:26):
So I know you have to prepare for that.

Speaker 1 (37:28):
Congress from Mia Chantel Brown, we appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (37:30):
Thanks a lot, Thank you, Rebecca.

Speaker 1 (37:32):
I want to go to you listen, people are saying, look,
they think they're like, none of this stuff matters. They're
going to pass They're going to pass it, going to
pass it. But this is also about is forcing every
single one of these Republicans, especially thirty five Republicans who
are Democrats, are targeting in twenty twenty six to cast
a vote because whatever vote they decide to cast, they're

(37:54):
going to be campaigning on that and the opposition will
be targeting them as well.

Speaker 14 (37:59):
It's clear, it's upon the numbers that the overwhelming majority
of Americans do not like the things that will be
cut if this big, ugly bill on this past. One
thing about the Democratic Party is it's one thing to
say and talk and hold these rallies, but they need
to be prepared to spend millions of dollars immediately in
accountability adds in those three dozen districts that you chose.

(38:24):
Reference reminding folks of hey, your member of Congress just
voted yes and this particular bill. And in the background,
list every single hospital, because over three hundred hospitals and
rural communities that will be probably shuttered by the fall
if this bill on what's the past, But list everything
in that particular district negative that's going to happen as

(38:47):
a result of that bill. Understanding that eighty percent of
the country it's going to have to pay higher taxes
because of this bill.

Speaker 15 (38:55):
So those are the things that if the Democratic Party
is going to do a fight.

Speaker 14 (38:58):
Then they need to do the fight for real, and
they be prepared to spend money behind this fight if
they want anything to change at the ballot box next year.

Speaker 2 (39:13):
Scott, go ahead.

Speaker 10 (39:15):
Yeah, I agree with Mike. I agree with my colleagues.

Speaker 9 (39:20):
I want the Democrats to fight like to match the
political gangsterism of the Republicans.

Speaker 10 (39:27):
Given the the independence and conservative.

Speaker 26 (39:31):
Dems, and even even the working poor in rural America,
you're gonna they are so committed to Trump that we've
got to package our criticism and package their fight in
the way that they understand that simplify it, and and
hang around the Republican's net like a weight.

Speaker 10 (39:51):
We are not good at doing that.

Speaker 9 (39:54):
We love attacking Donald Trump, but America knows Donald Trump
and they still voted for him, at least arguably the
majority of Americans were more than our candidate. But they've
got to package it and message it in a way
that is simple, direct and hard hitting and convinces the
average American that it's worth taking another.

Speaker 10 (40:15):
Look at the Dems.

Speaker 9 (40:17):
And then the Dems have to have not just their
messaging but their organization together and giving them a reason
why not just because of this big, ugly bill, but
there's a reason why to give the Democrats another shop
because we work for the working poor, we're worth of
working man, and we're just better leaders at this stuff

(40:37):
as opposed to just having a cult like personality.

Speaker 10 (40:41):
Not sure what the ultimate product is, but that's the
goal of this product.

Speaker 9 (40:45):
If we're going to get some power back in twenty
twenty six and ultimately in twenty.

Speaker 12 (40:50):
Twenty eight, I'm going to carry the baton from my
two fellow panelists and say, you know, in terms of
that messaging, I think the demo crats need to be
very very very strong on putting this into human terms,
in terms of however they can quantify it, showing what
these losses are going to look like on the ground,
not only that hospitals will be shuttered, but what that

(41:12):
looks like for your average Medicare recipient, what they're going
to have to forego in terms of, you know, pharmaceuticals,
or their procedures or whatever they need, so you can
put that into human terms. And to give you kind
of an analog to that, I was interested in what
percentage of the population that's going to lose Medicare coverage

(41:32):
is covered in Alaska. Alaska has only seven hundred and
forty thousand people, So if every single one of those
people was on Medicare, that would be four percent of
the people that are going to be lost, you know,
who are going to lose their Medicare coverage. And if
you think about it, Lisa Murkowski and her spinelessness and
those seven hundred and forty thousand people that she represents
right are now sending to the House of bill that's

(41:52):
going to take potentially coverage from seventeen million people. If
you put it in a numerical context, and you put
it into context like that, it makes it easier for
people to understand the enormity of the loss and also
the enormity of the cruelty.

Speaker 13 (42:06):
And that's what this comes down to.

Speaker 12 (42:07):
It comes down to people who need healthcare who are
going to have that healthcare taken away from them because
Trump and the Republicans want to give bigger tax breaks
to people who are already rich. I mean, that's an
absurd idea, but once you put it down on the
ground and the messaging, I think it makes it that
much more impactful. And I hope that the Democrats find
a way to really run with that from a human
interest standpoint, so we can see all the big mamas

(42:29):
and people who are not going to be able to
get what they need and what that human toll is
going to be.

Speaker 2 (42:33):
All Right, folks, I got to go to a break.
We come back.

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This week.

Speaker 22 (43:27):
On the other side of change, in mass incarceration, Trump
administration is doubling down on criminalization and how it is profitable.

Speaker 15 (43:34):
And there's something really.

Speaker 23 (43:35):
Really perverse about saying that we need to put people
in cages in order for other people to have jobs.

Speaker 15 (43:41):
Like that is not how our economy should be built.
Only on the other side of change.

Speaker 27 (43:45):
On the Blackstar Network, Don Winzel explains how it really
works the end.

Speaker 28 (43:54):
Chane Migration, ending, Chane Migration, Shane Migrats, Shane Migration, Shane Migrat.

Speaker 27 (44:00):
At the same time Donald Trump was spewing all this hate,
he was using a high powered lawyer and Shane Migration
to bring his wife, Malania's mother, father, and sister to
the United States where his money, but their citizenship.

Speaker 29 (44:11):
Citizenship was just awarded to victim and my ca.

Speaker 20 (44:16):
Nowson, here's how it works.

Speaker 27 (44:17):
At the same time, plagiarizing plastic. First Lady Milannia Trump
had kids pulled from their cages for this stage photo op.
Her family was living lavishly in the United States under
permanent resident status.

Speaker 20 (44:28):
But that's mainly just for rich white people.

Speaker 27 (44:30):
If you're Mexican, you don't get to live in a
fancy New York apartment while you wait.

Speaker 20 (44:33):
Donald Trump makes you wait in a cage.

Speaker 27 (44:36):
The world's most successful liar couldn't have his future wife
be in the United States legally, so he spent the
big bucks to get Milania and Einstein visa.

Speaker 30 (44:43):
Don't you think in any way that it's hypocritical that
his wife got to stay in the country with an
eb one visa, the so called Einstein visa, Oh.

Speaker 16 (44:50):
Stephen a physics.

Speaker 27 (44:52):
Now, the eb one is reserved for immigrants with extraordinary ability,
and when you think of extraordinary ability, it don't exactly
think of Milania.

Speaker 20 (45:00):
But Trump didn't care. He just wanted it done. Meet
Michael Wilds, the.

Speaker 27 (45:04):
High Power Noyer who helped secure US citizenship for Malania
Trump and her parents, Victor and Amia Cant and a
green card for her sister in es See. When Milania
became a citizen in two thousand and six. It gave
her the right to sponsor her parents and sisters, hence
the name Shane Migration. Trump destroyed families and sold a
closed border policy to his face while using Chane Migration
to bring in his own family. At the same time,

(45:26):
the Department of Homeland Security were ripping children from their
mother's arms and locking them in cages. Alania's family was
walking out of court with a personal security escort of
Department of Homeland Security officers. Note the patches on the uniform.
Donald Trump has one policy for white people and another
for brown.

Speaker 31 (45:41):
I met with the border patrol agents and are they
doing a great job?

Speaker 20 (45:46):
Okay, stop the music.

Speaker 27 (45:49):
There are still thousands of children locked up in Trump's
border prisons. There are children that have not seen their
parents in years. How long can Trump keep them in prison?
Do they get out when they're eighteen? Do they spend
their entire childhood.

Speaker 20 (46:02):
In a cage? Do they ever get out? Do they
ever get out?

Speaker 29 (46:06):
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I have been trying to get a record deal for
a long time.

Speaker 11 (46:49):
You know.

Speaker 33 (46:49):
When I finally got signed to the Motown record label
in two thousand and three, I was thirty four to
thirty five years old. And up until that time, I
had been trying to get record deals the traditional way.

Speaker 11 (47:02):
You know, you record your demo, you record.

Speaker 33 (47:04):
Your music, and you send it, you know, to the
record labels or maybe somebody a friend of a friend
knows somebody that works for, you know, the record label.

Speaker 2 (47:13):
And uh and really chemistry was.

Speaker 33 (47:17):
That was my last ditch effort at being in the
music business.

Speaker 2 (47:21):
How long have you been trying.

Speaker 33 (47:22):
I've been trying since I was since I was a teenager. Wow,
and uh and and and you know, and I'm grateful
that it didn't. I'm grateful that it happened when it happened,
because I wasn't prepared, you know, as a teenager to
embrace all that comes with a career in the in
the music industry.

Speaker 20 (47:54):
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Speaker 24 (47:57):
We brand were doing it and actually and me went
to the little break but I'd never been in. I
saw side door and we got the little bus and said, come.

Speaker 2 (48:05):
Let's go of me. I'm just like, let's go to
the morn. We're here this.

Speaker 34 (48:09):
Black girl at the door with this white guy, this
black African girl, and.

Speaker 16 (48:14):
She said, oh my god, that's got callaway and.

Speaker 35 (48:17):
I'm like this, you know it.

Speaker 32 (48:19):
And come to find out we were at the wrong door, and.

Speaker 21 (48:23):
She said, I'm like, you just go in there.

Speaker 16 (48:25):
But I was in Paris friend and that shot me.
She knew my name, she knew me my movie, you know.
So it's like this, guys they say building, they won't come.

Speaker 36 (48:37):
I said, people will fight it.

Speaker 2 (48:39):
They want.

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Speaker 1 (51:20):
Hey, folks, I'm actually here to the US Capital for
of Georgia, of Black Caucus their emergency rally. But last
night manth he's got a real testy in the House
Rules Committee when Congression Maxell Frost said something that I've
often said on this show about Republicans, saying, y'all really
ain't prolite.

Speaker 40 (51:38):
Watch this.

Speaker 41 (51:39):
I got involved in politics when I was fifteen years
old because I didn't want to get shot in my school.
There was a Sandy Hook shooting that pushed me into
this work. Three years later, a gunman walked into Pulse nightclub,
a mile away from where I was working and murdered
forty nine people and injured another forty nine. He didn't
like them because they were gay and Latino. Three months

(52:03):
after that, I survived an instance of gun violence in
downtown Orlando and Halloween in twenty sixteen, hundreds of us
running away from the gunfire. And that's after I had
been involved in this work for three three and a
half years. You never think it's going to hit you
home and then it hits your home, and then it
hits the block you're on. Two years ago, at the

(52:26):
scene of four hundred violent crimes, silencers were found. I
just think it's despicable that the gun industry, the gun lobby,
wants to push forth amendments like this that would result
in more people dying just so they can sell more guns.
No one on the Democratic side is advocating for anything

(52:49):
crazy or radical. We want common sense gun reform that
most Democrats, most Republicans, and most NRA members want. But
it just goes to show you that organizations like that
NRAD don't even represent daily gun owners. They represent daily
gun manufacturers and the people who sell the guns. They
have no problems with more people dying as long as

(53:09):
they can sell more guns. And if we want to
talk about a safe America, over the last three years,
because of the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act passed by Democrats,
signed by Joe Biden and the White House Office of
Gun Violence Prevention, in the last three years, gun violence
has gone down more than it has in our country's history.
Cities of over a million people, gun violence has gone

(53:29):
down forty percent. This year, we're on track to have
a reduction of twenty percent from last year. So this
we know that these solutions work while of course respecting
the rights of people, but also protecting the most sacred right,
which is the right to live, the ability to walk
down our blocks, go to our churches, our synagogues, our schools,

(53:53):
our temples, everywhere and not fear being shot. And this
false notion that you got to pick one, you got
to either be for the constitution.

Speaker 20 (54:03):
Or you know, you're okay with people dying. I mean,
it's just false.

Speaker 41 (54:09):
We are for rights, but we're also for making sure
that the right to live is preserved. And that's been
the fight of my life. That's why I came to Congress,
and that's why I'm proud to be a Democrat and
oppose this horrible bill.

Speaker 42 (54:22):
Thank you.

Speaker 7 (54:22):
And I think that the theme that we are seeing
is you said it a right to life versus.

Speaker 14 (54:30):
Their desire for profit.

Speaker 6 (54:33):
You just described that, and in this bill that's what
we see over and over again, the right to life.

Speaker 43 (54:38):
Because you need the health insurance versus the right for profit.

Speaker 20 (54:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 41 (54:45):
See, they say they're pro life because they want the
baby to be born, go to school and get shot
in the school, die in the school, die on the streets.

Speaker 2 (54:54):
Now, that is what they say.

Speaker 20 (55:02):
I moved to strike his words.

Speaker 44 (55:05):
We are going to be.

Speaker 15 (55:09):
But you you didn't use any means.

Speaker 20 (55:14):
I'm in every word.

Speaker 10 (55:17):
We are going to strike your words.

Speaker 3 (55:24):
But on the other hand, it might be good your words.

Speaker 20 (55:29):
It might be good to leave your words.

Speaker 16 (55:33):
Because that's how you feel.

Speaker 44 (55:36):
But you are not going to come into this room
and impune our integrity.

Speaker 2 (55:43):
You will not.

Speaker 44 (55:50):
We are pro life people from conception to natural death.

Speaker 10 (55:56):
Most of us are.

Speaker 44 (55:59):
And don't you come in here and say we want
to preserve life so people can get shot.

Speaker 11 (56:06):
That's what I've seen.

Speaker 1 (56:12):
Well, the point made there were Becca's the point that mate,
there rere Becca's the one that you know I made
on this show when I say this, you will not
pro life. Their anti abortion and the reality is the
actions that.

Speaker 40 (56:23):
They take proved every single day when it comes to
their love affair with guns and a second Amendment.

Speaker 10 (56:32):
Night when you made.

Speaker 14 (56:35):
You had that conversation, then you made that point, especially
with talking to that very extreme pro birth person who
was in studio that night. Here's the thing about Max Frost,
like I met him in twenty sixteen when I was
working for move on dot org, and I hired him
as an organizer organizing in the Greater Orlando area.

Speaker 41 (56:56):
Politics when I was fifteen years old because I didn't
want to get shot in my school. There's a Sandy
Hook shooting that pushed me into this work.

Speaker 40 (57:06):
Guys playing the video Okay, go ahead, yep.

Speaker 14 (57:09):
And then so he talked about in twenty fifteen what
led him to get involved in politics. So I met
him just after he graduated from high school, when he
was turning eighteen.

Speaker 15 (57:18):
Here's the thing about Maxwell Frost.

Speaker 20 (57:20):
He is true to this.

Speaker 14 (57:21):
It doesn't matter what Virginia Fox says, whether or not, Oh,
you're trying to impe in us, you're going after our integrity.

Speaker 15 (57:26):
He's one hundred percent right.

Speaker 14 (57:28):
He's arguing against the worldview that says we want to
force you all to birth children, but then we're not
going to do anything to make sure there's adequate health coverage,
there's adequate and affordable housing, that there is comprehensive and
good and strong education. He's arguing against a worldview that

(57:49):
just wants those numbers, and then they're trying to tie
it to Christianity, but they're not doing anything to actually
support people.

Speaker 15 (57:56):
From the cradle to the grave.

Speaker 14 (57:58):
Instead, it's this formative politics that we're seeing in that
particular worldview, saying that Okay, it's okay for us to
do all these things that don't that that are against
people having good life while they're living where they actually flourish.
So the thing about Maxwell Frost is the Internet's friend.

(58:19):
So it doesn't matter whether they keep it in the record, they.

Speaker 15 (58:21):
Strike it from the record. He's going to be in
Congress and he's going to have impact on Congress.

Speaker 14 (58:27):
And just hearing him talk through his personal story, his
lived experience, and how Congress has failed to address the
gun violence issue, and once again, what does this have
to do.

Speaker 10 (58:37):
With this bill?

Speaker 14 (58:38):
Why why are those things being snuck into this bill?
It clearly shows you that these bills that we're seeing
with this particular worldview, it's a moral guide of where
those particular people are because they're not supporting everyday Americans.

Speaker 1 (58:57):
Well yeah, surely right, And Scott, I just think that's
the kind of energy you need call them out on
the issue and force them to have to deal with it.

Speaker 10 (59:08):
Had no question about it.

Speaker 45 (59:10):
Where I come from with that scenario that you've just
played is called a hit dog will holler and Representative
Fox style hollering.

Speaker 9 (59:22):
But mat but the brother, the congressman was speaking facts.
He wasn't throwing bombs. And you know what, Representative Fox.
You don't like it, then prove him wrong. Vote for
gun control, vote for the assault rifle band, vote to
get people off the guns off the street.

Speaker 10 (59:43):
Whether you think it works a lot or works a little.

Speaker 9 (59:47):
And you and I wrote, and they've talked, and I've
said that the conservative right has advocated their responsibility.

Speaker 46 (59:55):
To the for the killing fields of our young children, black, white,
yellow and brown, and pledged allegiance to gun, to the
gun lobby and to the.

Speaker 9 (01:00:06):
Second Amendment, to the detriment of our children, and we
will they will do.

Speaker 10 (01:00:12):
Nothing about it, and they can't defend it. And that
exchange of that hearing right was discapsulated.

Speaker 9 (01:00:22):
What you said, what I've said, and all of those
on these programs have said, and the Republicans just ignore it.

Speaker 10 (01:00:28):
They pledge loyalty to Trump and to the NRA.

Speaker 9 (01:00:32):
While the killing fields of our young people, the number
one calls of death now I think for young people
under eighteen.

Speaker 10 (01:00:39):
Is gun violence. Think about that.

Speaker 9 (01:00:43):
That this is a we call ourselves the greatest country
in the world, and yet the number one reason our young.

Speaker 19 (01:00:50):
People are dying our gun violence that every day, maybe
twice a day, we have.

Speaker 10 (01:00:59):
Mashed shoots with weapons of mass destruction that's shooting two
people or more. This is we don't even report on
it anymore.

Speaker 40 (01:01:09):
Jesus Scott Scott.

Speaker 1 (01:01:10):
One second, Matt Scott, Scott, Scott, Scott Scott, I got you.

Speaker 40 (01:01:14):
Hold on, Scott, hold on, Matt.

Speaker 47 (01:01:16):
You're there in Texas and you got people like Chim
and Governor Dan Patrick, Governor Greg abn They love touting
their pro life credentials, but they are the biggest gun lovers.

Speaker 40 (01:01:27):
They don't support mental health budgets.

Speaker 1 (01:01:31):
Uh, they always talk about life or they want to
they want to cut programs for food for kids.

Speaker 40 (01:01:36):
I mean, you gotta challenge these folks on the hypocrisy.

Speaker 48 (01:01:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 13 (01:01:41):
Absolutely, And I'm glad you mentioned it because State Rep.

Speaker 12 (01:01:43):
James Tallerico, you know, put up a clip this morning
on Instagram that I saw and he's a pastor, as
you probably know, and he just talked about how if
Christ were here, Christ would be not only mad about
the fact that we're not doing charity, but he would
be mad about the fact that we have to have
systems for charity. And I really thought that that was
very impactful because it spoke to the idea that there
is a wide gulf between the rhetoric and the reality

(01:02:06):
with Conservatives because they want to act like they're about life,
but then they do things like get rid of snap
benefits or take away money from people that needed in medicare.
I mean, that's really what is supposed to be a
fundamental tendent if you are a Christian believer of how
you move through the world, and we see that they
are continuing to do things that are in direct opposition
to that. And as it relates to Abbot and Patrick,

(01:02:27):
you know, both of them are bootlookers for mister Trump,
as we know. But Dan Patrick is the worst of
all of them because he's not even from Texas, and
he costplays as a Texan and he costplays as a
conservative when he's really from Baltimore, and you know, it's
really what a former DJ.

Speaker 13 (01:02:42):
So you know, we don't take him seriously.

Speaker 12 (01:02:44):
And even he in Abbott, as you know right now,
are probably not in each other's good graces because Abbot
decided to veto that bill that he wanted to pass
as it relates to marijuana. But the reality of it
is it's all about rhetoric. It's not about the truth,
and we see that in their actions, not in their statements.

Speaker 40 (01:03:07):
I'm sorry, Rebecca. This is who Rebecca.

Speaker 1 (01:03:09):
This is who these people are, and unfortunately, I just
think Democrats are too often too tendant to call them
out exactly on their bullshit.

Speaker 14 (01:03:20):
Hey, you got to speak truth to power, because at
the end of the day, we're all watching this and
we're seeing people play in our face.

Speaker 15 (01:03:26):
So if elected leaders oppose what we.

Speaker 14 (01:03:29):
Perceive as what's being played out in our face, do
they need to actually use their words and speak.

Speaker 15 (01:03:34):
Truth to power. One thing that even the Democrats.

Speaker 14 (01:03:37):
Need to consider iste of saying, oh, well, you have
to wait your term to get into leadership, and it's
by seniority.

Speaker 2 (01:03:43):
You know.

Speaker 14 (01:03:43):
People like Maxwell Frost, people like Jasmine Crockett. Those sound
like the types of leaders that many Americans are looking for.
Those are some of the people who might need to
be running some of those committees and or being the
minority leader on those particular the minority chair on those committees,

(01:04:04):
because they are more reflective and more in touch with
what the American public is saying that they're fed up
about so as much as possible. Those are the voices
that need to be amplified, and not necessarily people who've
been there for sixty years.

Speaker 40 (01:04:20):
Absolutely, our folks go out to break.

Speaker 1 (01:04:22):
We are Rodney capitol Hill going to be headed over
to the CBC's emergency rally. We're going to go to
a break and be right back roland Mark all the
Blackstar Network.

Speaker 16 (01:04:35):
This week.

Speaker 22 (01:04:35):
On the other side of change, in mass incarceration, Trump
administration is doubling down criminalization and how it is profitable.

Speaker 15 (01:04:42):
And there's something really really.

Speaker 23 (01:04:44):
Perverse about saying that we need to put people in
cages in order for other people to have jobs.

Speaker 15 (01:04:49):
Like that is not how our economy should be built.
Only on the other side of change on the Blackstar.

Speaker 27 (01:04:53):
Network, Don Winzel explains how it really works the end.

Speaker 28 (01:05:02):
Jane Migration Ending, Shane Migration, Shane Shane Migration, Shane Migration.

Speaker 27 (01:05:08):
to bring his wife, Malania's mother, father, and sister to
the United States where his money.

Speaker 20 (01:05:17):
But the citizenship.

Speaker 29 (01:05:19):
Citizenship was just awarded to victim and my can now,
so here's how it works at the same time plagiarizing
plastic First Lady Milannia Trump had kids pulled from their
cages for this stage photo op.

Speaker 27 (01:05:31):

Speaker 20 (01:05:36):

Speaker 27 (01:05:38):

Speaker 20 (01:05:41):
Donald Trump makes you wait in a cage. The world's
most successful liar.

Speaker 27 (01:05:45):
Couldn't have his future wife be in the United States legally,
so he spent the big bucks to get Milania and
Einstein visa.

Speaker 30 (01:05:51):
his wife got to stay in the country with an
EBU one visa, the so called Einstein visa.

Speaker 16 (01:05:58):
Oh, stephen a physics.

Speaker 27 (01:06:00):
think of Milania.

Speaker 20 (01:06:08):
But Trump didn't care. He just wanted it done. Meet
Michael Wilds, the.

Speaker 27 (01:06:12):
High Power Noyer who helped secure US citizenship for Malania
Trump and her parents, Victor and Amia Cant and a
green card for her sister in es See. When Milania
became a citizen in two thousand and six, it gave
her the right to sponsor her parents and.

Speaker 20 (01:06:24):
Sisters, hence the name Shane migration.

Speaker 27 (01:06:27):
Trump destroyed families and sold a closed border policy to
his face while using chain migration to bring in his
own family. At the same time, the Department of Homeland
Security were ripping children from their mother's arms and locking
them in cages. Alania's family was walking out of court
with a personal security escort of Department of Homeland Security officers.

Speaker 20 (01:06:44):
Note the patches on the uniform.

Speaker 27 (01:06:46):
for brown I might.

Speaker 31 (01:06:49):
Read the border patrol agents and are they doing a
great job?

Speaker 20 (01:06:54):

Speaker 27 (01:06:57):
word or prisons. There are children that have not seen
their parents in years. How long can Trump keep them
in prison? Do they get out when they're eighteen? Do
they spend their entire childhood in a cage? Do they
ever get out?

Speaker 20 (01:07:13):
Do they ever get out?

Speaker 49 (01:07:17):
Next on the Black Table with Me Greg Carr, a
very different take on Juneteenth with the One and Only
doctor Senata we'll explore the amazing foods, remedies and rituals
that are a part of our history and the Juneteenth Holidays.

Speaker 14 (01:07:34):
So it's our responsibility to return the healthier version to
our folks instead of just the red liqueurs marketed to us,
the red sodas and the other things.

Speaker 7 (01:07:44):
I mean, why does the Kool aid man have to
sound like Louis Armstrong?

Speaker 49 (01:07:50):
An enlightening and tasty out of the black table only
on the Black Star Network.

Speaker 20 (01:08:00):

Speaker 32 (01:08:03):
I had been trying to get a record deal for
a long time.

Speaker 20 (01:08:06):
You know.

Speaker 33 (01:08:06):
When I finally got signed to the Motown record label
in two thousand and three, I was thirty four to
thirty five years old, and up until that time, I
had been trying to get record deals the traditional way.

Speaker 11 (01:08:19):
You know, you record your demo, you record.

Speaker 33 (01:08:21):
Your music, and you send it, you know, to the
record labels or maybe somebody a friend of a friend

Speaker 11 (01:08:30):
And really chemistry was.

Speaker 33 (01:08:34):
That was my last ditch effort at being in the
music business.

Speaker 2 (01:08:38):
How long have you been trying?

Speaker 33 (01:08:39):
I have been trying since I was since I was
a teenager, and and you know, and I'm grateful that
it didn't. I'm grateful that it happened when it happened,
because I wasn't prepared, you know, as a teenager to
embrace all that comes with a career in the in
the music industry.

Speaker 16 (01:09:11):
Hello, I'm Paula J.

Speaker 36 (01:09:12):
Parker, Trudy Proud of the Proud Family, Louder and Prouder
on Disney Plant and you're watching Rowland Martin on the Builder.

Speaker 1 (01:09:29):
Hey, folks, what's up Rollard Martin here? So I'm actually
approaching the US Capital. Let's just show you right here
where the CBC members are going to be assembling outside
of the Capitol, because they are again whole folcus, bringing
awareness of attention to what's going on with this bill.

(01:09:52):
Republicans have been scurry trying to get as many of
their votes as possible. They have been struggling to do so,
and so one of the things that they have done
they've actually kept the vote open for several hours. This
is not the first time that's happened. Democrats, I've done

(01:10:12):
the exact same thing. So what happens is you can
actually there's no time.

Speaker 50 (01:10:16):
Limit to when you can when you can when you're doing.

Speaker 40 (01:10:20):
A vote, so you can actually call a vote, and
then you can actually leave it open for several hours
for you've an.

Speaker 1 (01:10:28):
Opportunity to negotiate, twist arms, do all those sort of
different things we often have seen happen with in politics.

Speaker 2 (01:10:37):
And so again.

Speaker 40 (01:10:40):
We're head out here.

Speaker 1 (01:10:42):
You've got some fresh out here gathered so far, and
their whole point is again to keep the pressure on
what you've seen over the past forty eight hours.

Speaker 40 (01:10:53):
You've seen a lot of attention. There's a lot of pressure.

Speaker 1 (01:10:58):
Being put on people vocally making phone calls to House
Republicans Senate Republicans when it comes to this particular bill.
So one of the things that we've talked about is
how do you put power into action. You'll see here
you've got members of the media already setting up out here,

(01:11:21):
and listen, it's a Wednesday before the fourth July weekend.
You've got a lot of these members trying to race back,
trying to trying to race to.

Speaker 20 (01:11:31):
Get back to town.

Speaker 1 (01:11:32):
They had to come back. And one of the things
that happened was that you had storms on the East coast,
and so as a result, what you.

Speaker 20 (01:11:39):
Saw happened is that.

Speaker 40 (01:11:41):
Some of them had to actually had to hop.

Speaker 2 (01:11:44):
In the cars and drive here.

Speaker 1 (01:11:45):
So that's what's going on here, Rebecca, give us a
sense for people who don't understand how things work on
the Capitol Hill, the frenzy that's taking place inside the
US Capitol right now.

Speaker 14 (01:11:57):
Sure, So I want to point out it is highly
unusual to hold open votes for hours over hours.

Speaker 15 (01:12:05):
It's something that procedurally can happen. However, it's very rare.

Speaker 14 (01:12:09):
Usually if it's a bill just like what were Lynch
just talked about, where there's a call to a vote,
and it wasn't predicted that there was going to be
a call to a vote, and so normally you hold
it to make sure enough people actually get back to Washington.

Speaker 15 (01:12:25):
To indeed be able to vote.

Speaker 14 (01:12:28):
I will be interested in the parliamentary rules to see
what is the time limit and actually be able to
hold that vote open. But usually if it's just a
regular vote that is scheduled, people already in town, they're
in regular session, usually it's only held for like fifteen
minutes at that Sometimes, and be on the Senate side,

(01:12:49):
you'll see it may be held held a little bit longer,
but normally fifteen minutes, maybe thirty minutes as a stretch.
But the longer that vote is held open in there's
there's gonna be some doubts that creep in. So it's
gonna be interesting to see what exactly is happening. I've
seen rumors today that there are some hardline Republicans on

(01:13:10):
the Hill that are having negotiations with Speaker Speaker Mike
Johnson to get some more concessions before they're ultimately willing
to do an affirmative vote for this bill. But here's
the thing. If the numbers were there at this moment,
then then then there would actually be an expiration on

(01:13:33):
this vote. It wouldn't just be held open indefinitely. So
that lets me know that the numbers still aren't there.
But when I'm curious, if it's just the hard right
Republicans that are in negotiations, what happens to some of
the folks if there are anyone, if there are any
members that are left in the Republican Caucus are a
little bit more moderate, or at least the Republicans who

(01:13:56):
are in seats that are going to be contested by
the Democratic Party next year, I'm more curious to see
what those thirty something folks are going to do.

Speaker 15 (01:14:05):
It's roughly about thirty five folks. I think it would
have been thirty.

Speaker 14 (01:14:08):
Six, but Congressman Don Bacon from Nebraska to which is
the Omaha area, decided that he wasn't going to run
for reelection.

Speaker 15 (01:14:17):
So now that's an open seat for the Republican Party.
So right now, if I was.

Speaker 14 (01:14:22):
To predict, my prediction is that the votes aren't there yet.
And like what Roland said, with the weather patterns being
what the weather and patterns are, you know, depending on
how long this vote is going, I don't.

Speaker 15 (01:14:34):
Know that everyone's going to get back in town yet.

Speaker 14 (01:14:37):
But I'm also curious to figure out who is actually
having the negotiation.

Speaker 15 (01:14:41):
Who are the people who are holding out.

Speaker 14 (01:14:44):
Is it truly folks are holding out or is that
the cover story because more people.

Speaker 15 (01:14:48):
Are furiously trying to get back to Washington, DC.

Speaker 40 (01:14:50):
Tonight.

Speaker 51 (01:14:57):
All right, folks, show se are Scott. We talk about
we talk about lobby efforts. It's an intensive lobby effort
going on what your diet is. You've got different groups
all around the country's electrical workers, you've got trade users,
You've got an additional Catholic church are making cars and
putting pressure of Republicans to to get them to vote this.

Speaker 2 (01:15:18):
Build out.

Speaker 35 (01:15:21):
Right, the.

Speaker 9 (01:15:24):
Hardline conservatives who are fiscal hawks, who don't like the
debt ceiling and what the additional debt is going to raise.
Then you have those in Republicans and purple states or
Democratic seats, the Democratic states or districts that are going
to be challenged by the Dems, as my colleagues said,

(01:15:45):
and they are terrified of voting when you're going to
take seventeen million people off.

Speaker 10 (01:15:50):
The Medicaid bill. And then you have a group of Republicans.

Speaker 45 (01:15:55):
Who are a mixed of both if you will, and
can't get there in the end, and they don't want
to be primaried.

Speaker 10 (01:16:01):
And I think in the end, I think my colleague
is right.

Speaker 9 (01:16:04):
They don't have the votes right now, but somehow the
Republicans just seemed to capitulate and in the end Donald
Trump gets what he wants, which is not necessarily what's
best for the country. And it's just really sad what's
going to happen as far as what's predictable if history
repeats itself.

Speaker 51 (01:16:35):
Great, we have, of course the members out here day
want listen about the rat cons that talk right here. Uh,
cons with me talk If you can't step on over
here for a second, we'll chat with her. And we
did this here r g her microphone. So while we're waiting,
we're actually live. Yes, so let me go ahead were

(01:16:57):
for the rest we are, So let me go ahead
and uhha.

Speaker 52 (01:17:00):
And do this here.

Speaker 2 (01:17:02):
Pip turns on.

Speaker 51 (01:17:05):
Then we will just quick this on using to hear you.
So since to give us a stance of what the
lobby has been like that for the past twenty four
forty eight hours they're trying to give you know, those
full public divos today.

Speaker 36 (01:17:21):
Now, well it's been quite all.

Speaker 51 (01:17:24):
We've tried everything and shaming. Uh, we've reached out, We've
got their constituents to reach out.

Speaker 53 (01:17:31):
Uh.

Speaker 51 (01:17:32):
You know, I think these folks have to really worked
themselves up into believing that whatever the administration tells them
they will adhere to. We'll say, we're a couple of
folks in the Republican parties who are moderates, who are
having a lot of hot lead over over meddling and
idea and so how were just a lot mom not

(01:17:55):
allow them know we be there. If you want, you
tell them, they'll look at us you and you don't
told everybody you got to ask you you realize years yes, yes,
we ain't taking we live. What I was saying is
that there's a group of moderates who are getting hard
word us. They know that the medical cuts are going
to decimate the healthcare infrastructure for lippies. And then they

(01:18:16):
are the sort of more extremists white worm who have
been doing everything they can to basically cut down the
side as the federal government and are concerned about definity
to spending.

Speaker 35 (01:18:31):
So they seem they.

Speaker 20 (01:18:32):
Seem to need some more cuts.

Speaker 51 (01:18:34):
To the federal minus, of course the Defense Department where
they have their contracts. See that's I keep the keeps
cralling that I keep doing all of this stuff about
our cousin Snap and all his programs, and it's amazing.

Speaker 2 (01:18:47):
Now nobody wants him token touch defense.

Speaker 51 (01:18:50):
It doesn't come up, and they actually want to give
more money to it.

Speaker 36 (01:18:52):
Absolutely well, I mean the bill is packed with all
manner of funding for paramilitary type of activity to expand
ice which has no accountability to anyone, which will I
believe have implications for vigilanteism in the United States.

Speaker 2 (01:19:15):
And I mean the bill is horrifical it's the big ugly, there's.

Speaker 51 (01:19:20):
No doubt about it.

Speaker 36 (01:19:21):
And you know, over a thousand pages, we're still going
through it.

Speaker 2 (01:19:25):
We just got it yesterday, got it right.

Speaker 36 (01:19:27):
So we know that the big areas are nutrition assistance
for our communities, and already our food pantries are struggling
to meet the needs of our people.

Speaker 2 (01:19:40):
This will be a direct.

Speaker 36 (01:19:41):
Blow to families just when inflation has hit all time
highs and will continue to escalate due to the tariff
regime that they put in place.

Speaker 16 (01:19:50):
And so, I mean, the United States is going to suffer.

Speaker 36 (01:19:54):
Our people are going to suffer, and we wanted to
make sure that the black communityarticular is undergirded navigate our
people through these really troubling times into victory.

Speaker 2 (01:20:10):
All right, then I say it, well, grab this here,
So let me do this here folk.

Speaker 1 (01:20:17):
We're going to go to a quick break and we'll
be right back from the US capital right here at
rolling on the Blackstart.

Speaker 20 (01:20:22):
Network this week.

Speaker 21 (01:20:27):
On the other side of change, the mass incarceration.

Speaker 22 (01:20:29):
Trump administration is doubling down criminalization and how it is profitable.

Speaker 15 (01:20:34):

Speaker 23 (01:20:35):
in cages in order for other people to have jobs
like that is not how our economy should be built.

Speaker 15 (01:20:42):

Speaker 27 (01:20:44):
works the ending.

Speaker 28 (01:20:53):
Chane Migration, Ending Chane Migration, Shane Migrations, Shane Migration, Shane Migration.

Speaker 27 (01:20:59):
to bring his wife Malania's mother, father, and sister to

Speaker 29 (01:21:08):
But the citizenship and citizenship was just awarded to victim
and my canals.

Speaker 20 (01:21:15):
Here's how it works.

Speaker 27 (01:21:16):
At the same time, plagiarizing plastic first Lady Milania Trump
had kids pulled from.

Speaker 20 (01:21:21):
Their cages for this stage photo op.

Speaker 27 (01:21:23):

Speaker 20 (01:21:27):

Speaker 27 (01:21:29):

Speaker 20 (01:21:32):

Speaker 27 (01:21:35):
be in the United States illegally, so he spent the

Speaker 30 (01:21:42):
his wife got to stay in the country with EB
one visa, the so called Einstein visa.

Speaker 16 (01:21:49):
Step anophysics.

Speaker 27 (01:21:51):
Now the eb one is reserved for immigrants with extraordinary ability,
think of Milania.

Speaker 20 (01:22:00):
Trump didn't care. He just wanted it done.

Speaker 27 (01:22:02):
Meet Michael Wilds, the high power lawyer who helped secure
US citizenship for Malania Trump and her parents, Victor and
amiac cond and a green card for her sister in
esk See. When Milania became a citizen in two thousand
and six, it gave her the right to sponsor her.

Speaker 20 (01:22:14):
Parents and sisters, hence the name Shane Migration.

Speaker 27 (01:22:18):
Trump destroyed families and sold a closed border policy to
his face while using Chane Migration to bring in his
own family. At the same time, the Department of Homeland
Security were ripping children from their mother's arms and locking
them in cages. Alania's family was walking out of court
with a personal security escort of Department of Homeland Security officers.
Note the patches on the uniform. Donald Trump has one
policy for white people and another for Brown.

Speaker 31 (01:22:40):
I met with the border patrol agents and are they
doing a great job.

Speaker 20 (01:22:45):

Speaker 27 (01:22:48):
parents in years. How long can Trump keep them in prison?
Do they get out when they're eighteen?

Speaker 29 (01:22:59):
They My name is Freddy Rice. I'm from Houston, Texas.

Speaker 43 (01:23:02):
My name is Sharon Williams. I'm from Dallas, Texas.

Speaker 54 (01:23:06):
Right now I'm rolling with Roland Martin unfiltered, uncut, uncloved,
and undamned.

Speaker 1 (01:23:12):
Believe, folks, we're here in the United States Capitol where
suloack Corushion Blackhawks. I'll be holding their emergency rally. We
just talked to a course, the chair the CBC cong
so many bit Clark. Now joining us comeswoman Maxine Waters. Uh,
these sort of a budgetflies are not new to you.

Speaker 16 (01:23:34):
Well, first of all, let me tell you I'm here here.
Man get the.

Speaker 54 (01:23:38):
Head of the black car and he again on the
Floyd today where we did, uh, what is a line
where we keep coming? And others joined up to say
there's an amendment that could possibly undo what you're doing
on medicaid and own snack and so in that leadership.

Speaker 16 (01:23:58):
I got on very inspired.

Speaker 54 (01:24:00):
As a matter of fact, I got so worked up
until I wanted to stay there all night long.

Speaker 16 (01:24:05):
We did it once before it did.

Speaker 1 (01:24:06):
You're trying to pull John Lewis E. We were gonna
make some good trouble.

Speaker 2 (01:24:10):
That's absolutely that's what we did, good.

Speaker 54 (01:24:11):
Trouble when we stayed there all night and we kind
of made ourselves know we're in that kind of fact.

Speaker 2 (01:24:18):
Now, that's right.

Speaker 16 (01:24:19):
It is a horrible fact.

Speaker 2 (01:24:20):
That we're there.

Speaker 16 (01:24:21):
As a matter of fact, it has been said.

Speaker 54 (01:24:23):
Over and over again, there's never been these kind of
cuts historical ever have the government moved this drastically on
the population of people.

Speaker 16 (01:24:34):
Who need the government the most.

Speaker 54 (01:24:35):
When you talk about medicare and medicare people are gonna die.

Speaker 16 (01:24:41):
We've got sixteen seventeen million.

Speaker 54 (01:24:43):
People who're gonna get cut, who won't be able to
have the kind of basic care that they need to
stay alive.

Speaker 16 (01:24:50):
And then we've got snapped.

Speaker 2 (01:24:52):
Let me tell you it's not snap.

Speaker 16 (01:24:53):
It's food STAPs, food stamp.

Speaker 54 (01:24:56):
It's food for people who cannot afford to put food
adequately on the table and have the kind of nutritions
just to keep them going.

Speaker 2 (01:25:04):
And so we're in this fight.

Speaker 16 (01:25:06):
Why are we in this fight?

Speaker 54 (01:25:08):
We have the most bile, the most corrupt, the most untimed,
the most we're un dignified of human being. Who is
the president of the United States of America And he
doesn't give a darn about the populations that's going to
be impacted by the decisions that he's making.

Speaker 16 (01:25:26):
He's made up his mind that he is going to
work for the billionaires in this country.

Speaker 54 (01:25:31):
And the billionaires want a tax break, and that's what
he's going to give them.

Speaker 16 (01:25:36):
And out of all of that, he's going to get
rewarded by Bim.

Speaker 54 (01:25:40):
He's owning all of Crypto now and he's getting billions
of dollars, even from Abbi Dabby. He got I think
two billion dollars to go into a stable cars.

Speaker 16 (01:25:51):
And so we're fighting. The Black cart is fighting.

Speaker 7 (01:25:54):
We're doing everything that we can.

Speaker 16 (01:25:56):
We're in the protest, we're on the internet. But in
the final announced because we got to be on the street.

Speaker 54 (01:26:02):
We've got to organized the way we were talking to
do any civil rights wills, we show up and we've
protested and we.

Speaker 16 (01:26:09):
Walked the walk.

Speaker 2 (01:26:10):
We've got to do all of that because.

Speaker 54 (01:26:12):
This is a fight that we cannot intimidated by the resident.
We cannot step backwards. We've got the fight, and even
if he thinks he win, we got to keep.

Speaker 5 (01:26:22):
On the fights.

Speaker 1 (01:26:22):
I mean, when the logic of cutting food benefits, But
then you want to go to the corporate tax, right,
going from thirty five to twenty one percent, when you
already have corporations who put that money offshore anyway, I
mean that to me, what is crazy? And both of
you have heard all these Republicans for years yell about
the deficit, but they don't care that this is about

(01:26:43):
to explode the deficit's I mean, I'm.

Speaker 2 (01:26:46):
Like, okay, what happened to the deficit? Hawks?

Speaker 20 (01:26:48):
That's right.

Speaker 16 (01:26:49):
It's the dismantling.

Speaker 36 (01:26:51):
It's the dismantling of society as we know. It is
expanding the wealth gap way beyond what the average American
has ever known.

Speaker 16 (01:27:02):
We're moving towards.

Speaker 36 (01:27:04):
Authoritarian oligarchy with these corporations and their leadership making.

Speaker 16 (01:27:10):
Out like bandits.

Speaker 36 (01:27:11):
This tax cut is a tax cut in perpetuity. This
is not a sunset it tax cut. And the reason
we're here is because it would sunset if we didn't
pass this legislation.

Speaker 1 (01:27:22):
We've also seen they are rolling back the hiring the
r as agents that also was generating revenue. We are
now seeing they were cutting the folks, get firing the
folks who are at the top line, going after the
riches of the riches, and so up and down. They
want to hook up folk who got money, and if

(01:27:44):
you are making eighty thousand or less, you're screwed.

Speaker 16 (01:27:48):
Absolutely. As a matter of fact, what people have to
understand is.

Speaker 54 (01:27:52):
The President of the United States is taking over all
of government and what he's decided there be no more
independent agencies. They have to come and check with him,
like the sec securities in exchange. They have to come
to him before they do any public policy, before they
do anything, and he will tell them whether or not

(01:28:12):
they can do it. So, in taking over all of
the government agencies that are supposed to be independent, what
you're talking about now, you're talking about a dictator.

Speaker 11 (01:28:21):
That's what it wants to be.

Speaker 16 (01:28:23):
He loves Kim gong On over in our career.

Speaker 2 (01:28:26):
He wants to be a dictator and.

Speaker 16 (01:28:28):
He's moving rapidly toward it.

Speaker 54 (01:28:31):
He even now wants to take over the FED, and
the FED is supposed to be absolutely independent, and so
Powell is fighting back the man who's there, he's fighting back,
but the President is continuing to say, I'm gonna get you.
And the way that they're going to get him now,
they're gonna put him under investigation. That's what they're doing

(01:28:51):
to all of us. They put us under investigation. They've
got the government's money to file lawsuits against us, and
so they'll keep coming and we're going to see what
happens we power over at the fan and whether or
not they're going to get rid of him by putting
him a false investigation.

Speaker 16 (01:29:07):
This is a mean, low down, cruel president of the
United States of America.

Speaker 54 (01:29:11):
And I don't want people to think, oh, this is
going to work out if they win the vote, they'll
go in the back room and they're negotiating off.

Speaker 16 (01:29:19):
This is not that at all.

Speaker 10 (01:29:21):
This is horror and terror that's.

Speaker 54 (01:29:24):
Going to be placed on the most vulnerable people in
this country, people who depend on government, who work every day,
who are trying to get better careers so they.

Speaker 55 (01:29:33):
Can earn more money.

Speaker 54 (01:29:34):
These are the working people, as the poor people that
are going to be absolutely overrun by the President of
the United States taking away that which many of us
have worked so hard for to ensure that the government
make sure that it does everything that he can. But
people to have just a decent quality of life, just

(01:29:57):
a decent quality of life, which means you can eat,
you have a decent place to live, you can get
up on Sunday morning and.

Speaker 35 (01:30:03):
Go to church.

Speaker 54 (01:30:05):
But he has taking away our ability to have a
decent quality of life. And he is absolutely focused on
him and intends to make it happen whatever it takes.

Speaker 2 (01:30:17):
I could go on to.

Speaker 16 (01:30:18):
Any number of things that are unbelievable. Yes, then he
took over and went to the Supreme Court with childbirth,
and you know what they did.

Speaker 56 (01:30:27):
They just moved it over into saying, you know, the
lower courts cannot overturn or denied the president on an
executive order whatever he wants to do.

Speaker 2 (01:30:39):
Birthday said ship it's.

Speaker 54 (01:30:40):
The lower court does it. It just remains in their jurisdiction.
So you have a country where you have over here
your birthright can be taken away or whatever they want
to do.

Speaker 16 (01:30:53):
But next door to you, in the same district, they
have a right to do whatever they want to do.

Speaker 54 (01:30:58):
Because he has undermined birth right by dealing with executive
audis whether or not the lower courts. Kenny tell him
that his executive audience un constitutional.

Speaker 16 (01:31:09):
I mean, this is some big stuff that people got
to understand.

Speaker 1 (01:31:12):
Absolutely. It looks like y'are about to get started real soon.
So we're gonna sit here.

Speaker 11 (01:31:16):
Bet you do that.

Speaker 2 (01:31:17):
I appreciate y'all chating with us. A second. Thank you.
Oh no, we live, so we took all of it.
We were live, so you're good. We got all of
it all right, folks.

Speaker 1 (01:31:26):
Again, we're here at the US Capital where in moments
Sgreccal Black caucusse are gonna be having what they're calling
an emergency rally here. They've actually asked a number of
organizational leaders to come out, bring their people out, and
so different members are gonna be here. They're gonna be
bringing some chairs, and each one of them are gonna
be talking and sharing their perspective.

Speaker 2 (01:31:47):
So here's the deal.

Speaker 1 (01:31:47):
I can't hear. I cannot hear the control room or
hear our panel list. But I'm gonna go to Matt first.
I'm going to Matt. I'm gonna go to Scott that
I'm gonna go to Rebecca and Matt. This is the
type of thing that's needed. And here's interesting. I've been
seeing all these people in the last couple of days
talk about Democrats need to fight, need to do more.

Speaker 2 (01:32:06):
Well, first of.

Speaker 1 (01:32:07):
All, you're severely limited when you don't control the House,
where you don't control the Senate, we don't control the
White House.

Speaker 2 (01:32:12):
The reality is this here.

Speaker 1 (01:32:13):
If the Republicans want to pass this budget, they can
pass this budget now. The fight right now is amongst
Republicans as to whether they're going to approve the Senate
version or do their own budget, do another bill, send
that back to the Senate, and go back and forth.
And so the reality is what Democrats the only thing
they can do is aggressively lobby Republicans who are in

(01:32:35):
very difficult districts to get them to understand that guess what, listen,
you're going to pay a political price if you vote
for it.

Speaker 2 (01:32:42):
That's really what we're dealing with, Matt exactly.

Speaker 12 (01:32:46):
They need to break away, and they need to I mean,
the Republicans who are in these moderate districts need to
break away, and the people who are just against the
bill need to be swayed, hopefully by the Democrats attacking
them saying we're really cajoling them to say do the
right thing, or else you're going to be on the
chopping block.

Speaker 13 (01:33:02):
But you know, Rebecca said something earlier that I was thinking.

Speaker 12 (01:33:06):
I think that the subterfuge or the answer that they're
giving about why the vote is open this long.

Speaker 13 (01:33:11):
Is because people are coming back.

Speaker 12 (01:33:13):
But I think what's really happening behind closed doors is
certain Republican members are probably more cowska, and they're probably saying,
this is what I need for my district. Give me
what I want for my district, and then I'll see
to what the president wants, which is what I suspect
is happening. But I've never understood politically why you would
want to sign on to this bill. I understand, you
know that they're all afraid of mister Trump, but I

(01:33:33):
would be more afraid of your constituents because so many
of them are going to lose health care and it's
going to affect their lives meaningfully that it seems like
this would be the situation where you break away, But
hopefully the messaging from the Democrats will cause them to
do that.

Speaker 10 (01:33:51):
You know, we don't be in the streets and what
have you.

Speaker 9 (01:33:55):
But I always get back to the whole voting piece,
block and brown people and Democrats and independents got to vote.

Speaker 10 (01:34:03):
We told them what this was going to be like repeatedly.
They lived through this warmth with Donald Trump won, and
we just we.

Speaker 57 (01:34:12):
Just aren't voting enough to outvote the Democrats or outvote
Trump and magoism, and we're losing black and brown male voters,
we're losing independents.

Speaker 2 (01:34:25):
And so the.

Speaker 9 (01:34:26):
Democrats got to get their message together, got to get
their politics together. They've got to get a message that
is hard hitting and makes sense, and then they need
to implement. They get their own political gangsters out there,
much like to match the Republicans, because we up again
some gangsters, some political gangsters. And so until that happens,

(01:34:48):
I'm all about marching and protesting, but.

Speaker 10 (01:34:51):
We got to get our power back.

Speaker 9 (01:34:52):
Without that power, it's hard to really make a difference
and to fight back effectively for our people.

Speaker 14 (01:35:01):
So there is a phrase that's really interesting that the
congresswoman said, and it was authoritarianism, but authoritarian oligarchy, and
so I want to explore that more. Basically, what she's
saying is we have consolidated powers by those who are
the capitalists, those handful of folks who own the wealth

(01:35:21):
in this country, and they're removing a lot of democratic
principles and they're taking it out of our government, and
instead we see a consolidation of power. It's largely around money,
and those are the things that are happening that are
determining whether or not elected officials are going to vote
for something like this that, by all estimations, is going

(01:35:43):
to be really devastating to ordinary and the majority of
Americans in this country. And so we could talk about voting,
and of course I lead a national voting rights organizations
always support voting, but the thing is people are going
to have to turn out such over welming numbers and
flood the zone, and so many people have to show up.

Speaker 15 (01:36:05):
So then when we see, like in a North Carolina
where you have a.

Speaker 14 (01:36:10):
You have someone who's duly elected to the state Supreme Court,
and you see that there is like a six month
battle where whether or not that person could be swarning.
And because the person who lost decided that they wanted
to be a sore loser and that they wanted to
contest a race that should not have been contested, and
they were using different legal maneuverings that also didn't make

(01:36:31):
sense right, and so we need so many people of
good conscious to get ready to show up. There are
elections in this fall, but also in the spring, there
are primaries going into the twenty twenty six midterm cycle.
But those are the things that have to happen if ordinary,
everyday Americans don't like what they're watching, if they're seeing

(01:36:53):
and especially by the numbers, we see that most Americans
do not support the elements that are in this bill.
We are seeing that there's still a majority of members
of Congress who have decided they're going to vote for
it anyway because their calculation is, you know what, you're
gonna hate what we're voting for, but guess what, you're
going to vote and re elect me anyway, and there's.

Speaker 15 (01:37:14):
No consequences I'm going to have to pay.

Speaker 14 (01:37:17):
So it's one reason why you're seeing that the vote
is still open, because there is active negotiation that's happening
now where you're going to see different members, especially members
of the Republican Party, who are going to carve out
what used to be called pork.

Speaker 15 (01:37:32):
Pork, I think pork barrel special projects for their district.

Speaker 14 (01:37:36):
But you know, You're going to have people, maybe like
a Virginia Fox saying, hey, disregard the two rural hospitals
in my district that are about to shut down, and
disregard that there's going to be loan lines in the er,
because that's now how people are going to start to
get their healthcare because it cuts to both Medicare and
it cuts both to Medicaid.

Speaker 15 (01:37:55):
That's a large swath of Virginia Fox's district.

Speaker 14 (01:37:58):
But disregard that because instead I have a new post
office that's being named, Or disregard that because I got
an extra ten million dollars that will go support small
businesses in my district. People have to make sure that
they're not falling for the okie doke, because yeah, it
is great, there's an extra five million dollars who support
small business, but at the cost of upwards forty three percent.

(01:38:19):
When I'm thinking about Alaska, of people who are either
on Medicare or they're on Donali Care. Donality Care is
Alaska's equivalent of Medicaid, which is for working families and
for poor families, and for children whose parents aren't able
to buy them private insurance and to make sure that

(01:38:40):
they self adequate healthcare, and so people can't fall for
the okie dough here. Don't let someone play in your
face or lie in your face.

Speaker 15 (01:38:47):
You actually have the.

Speaker 14 (01:38:48):
Tools to look up and see what the devastating consequences
are going to happen because you're representative is held bent
voting for a bill that, by all means is a
bad bill.

Speaker 1 (01:39:03):
All right, folks, so we'll do a reset. So we
left our studios at sixteenth and k on what I
still call Black Lives Matter Plaza, the race down here
to the United States Capital. So as you can see,
go ahead and pans. So you've got a number of
members who are here. Comes from the Maxine Waters, Collins
woman and Joyce Baby, Comressman Troy Carter, you got congress
Woman you.

Speaker 2 (01:39:23):
Bet Clark, who's heading the CBC.

Speaker 1 (01:39:25):
You got Conie Woman Frederick and Wilson congress Woman Lucy Bath,
Colliss Woman Lauren Underwood. We've got other members who are
going to be coming and so shortly they're going to
be speaking at.

Speaker 2 (01:39:37):
The podium and also addressing folks.

Speaker 1 (01:39:39):
And what they've done is they sent the word out
to a number of organizations, civil rights organizations, local organizations.

Speaker 2 (01:39:46):
I see the other.

Speaker 1 (01:39:46):
Brothers with win with black men. I saw Khalil Thompson
a little bit earlier over here. They got their table
set up as well. So what they've been doing is
wanting as many folks as possible to come out here
for what they are calling this emergence see a rally again,
drawing attention, driving attention, uh. Because the pressure is being
put on Republicans inside of that building, the US Capitol.

(01:40:09):
Donald Trump gave the Republicans a deadline of July fourth,
where he wanted this bill passed, uh. And so he
wanted this, he wanted he wanted this bill passed by
July fourth, and so they want to beat that deadline.

Speaker 2 (01:40:23):
But they are but there.

Speaker 1 (01:40:24):
But they got some Republicans who are actually stuck joining
us right now, as Frongess Woman Lauren Underwood us, you
can just go ahead and hold it. So that's cool.
The the one of the things that's really jumping out here.
You have all these Republicans who were saying, oh no,
don't touch medicaid, don't touch medicaid. Trumps a report that
said he met with them and he literally said, hey,

(01:40:46):
if you guys want to survive for the connection, don't
touch medicare Medicaid so security.

Speaker 2 (01:40:50):
They were like, dude, this actually cuts medicaid.

Speaker 1 (01:40:53):
Uh and says if he doesn't know what the hell
is own bill even does uh. And so it's amazing
to listen to them bemoan that. But I'm gonna go
ahead and vote for what people like Senator Josh Hollock.

Speaker 43 (01:41:05):
Yes, because Mitch mccon Mitch McConnell says.

Speaker 20 (01:41:08):
They'll get over it.

Speaker 2 (01:41:09):
Yeah, literal vote. Well, we're all.

Speaker 43 (01:41:12):
Gonna die anyways, So they don't care. The cruelty is
the point. They raise these objections as lip service, and
then they all came. That is how they operate every day,
in service of one person, Donald Trump.

Speaker 1 (01:41:28):
You've got I was talking to Ken Martin yesterday here
the DNC as well as Leader Jeffries, and they're thirty
five what they call vulnerable Republicans. Yeah, and who Democrats
are targeting next year. But do you believe that they're
going to actually show some heart and vote, you know,
for the constituous or are they going to bow down
to dear leader.

Speaker 43 (01:41:47):
They are all going to vote for the spels. This
is the singular legislative priority for Donald Trump, and they
are here to make sure that Donald Trump is happy,
and then they will lose their majority for twenty twenty
six and we will put you back in charge of
the House of Representatives and reclaim the People's House for
the people.

Speaker 1 (01:42:06):
And so for the person who's watching, for the person
who's listening, who will say, well, okay, so you think
that's going to pass anyway, why do all of this?

Speaker 43 (01:42:13):
Why, Well, because they don't have the votes yet. They're
in the middle of these negotiations right now. They are jockeying,
they are horse training, they are literally getting what they
are bending to the knee and someone's coming and slapping
their behind.

Speaker 2 (01:42:25):
Is still open.

Speaker 43 (01:42:26):
The vote is still open and has been open since
one point thirty this afternoon.

Speaker 2 (01:42:31):
So that's six hours, yes, sir, And so it's just
not normal.

Speaker 43 (01:42:35):
It is completely abnormal. We flew in, they summoned us
here knowing that they didn't have the votes. They did
the test vote, they didn't have the vote, and now
they're trying to get a grip and figure it out.
This is where you come in. This is where the
phone calls come in. This is when the stories come in.
This is when the activations are important to show them.

(01:42:56):
So that they can't say they didn't know, so they
can't say no one told me, so they can't say, well,
I didn't see that in the bill. We're standing here
today saying that seventeen million people are about to lose
their healthcare. Millions more are going to see their cost rise.

Speaker 2 (01:43:09):
We're standing here today and a whole lot of red states.

Speaker 43 (01:43:12):
Oh, every state, every zip code, every zip code. We're
standing here saying that rural hospitals are about to close.
The nursing home industry is going to collapse. What that
means is end of life planning for Grandmama and them, Like,
for real, there's not going to be anywhere for our
loved ones to get the level of care that they deserve.

Speaker 1 (01:43:33):
But folks, you understand that this ain't a black thing
we're talking about. We talking about the entire Louisiana healthcare system. Say,
to speak of Mike Johnson, what are you doing. You
got the building trades, the electrical workers who are saying, oh,
y'all kill all this, all these green jobs. You're killing
the manufacturing, and they're just kind of like, nope, no matter,
we're good, no matter how.

Speaker 43 (01:43:55):
The billionaires are getting their tax cuts and for them,
that's enough for them, these House Republicans.

Speaker 2 (01:44:01):
And large corporations, that's right.

Speaker 43 (01:44:02):
But for working families, regular Americans, we know that people
in our communities are gonna be going hungry. Kids, veterans,
seniors going hungry. The largest cuts to food stamps for
some of you, y'all might call it ebt, right, like,
y'all know what we're talking about. Cut all this paperwork
designed to make sure that you don't get that six

(01:44:24):
dollars a day to help you feature family.

Speaker 1 (01:44:26):
And then they're claiming the four and a half five
million people on medicaid who are able bodied people, So
that's their rationale.

Speaker 43 (01:44:33):
Listen, they're trying to create this archetype as if there's
some thirty year old man in his parents' basement playing
video games all day, eating off the system, trying to
get some healthcare. That's that's the thing, and that got
should be going to work.

Speaker 1 (01:44:45):
That's I think that's the new run of Reagan welfare
Queen Well, which we now know is help was non existent,
that was fictitious.

Speaker 43 (01:44:52):
Who's actually on medicaid? Half of all cases in this
country on medicaid. Medicaid pays for two thirds of births
for black moms and families. We're talking about moms and
babies getting kicked off their health care and they're doing
it to give billionaires a tax cut.

Speaker 2 (01:45:09):
That's it.

Speaker 43 (01:45:10):
And they think that you all are going to get
over it. You get the stand firm and say absolutely no,
unequivocally no.

Speaker 2 (01:45:18):
Are they hearing. Are they hearing from their districts.

Speaker 1 (01:45:20):
I mean, look at the Fox News poll showed sixty
percent was against this bill.

Speaker 43 (01:45:23):
I mean, it is popular, right, and no poll none
has this been popular. No, But you know what Mitch McCowell.

Speaker 2 (01:45:30):
Said, they'll get over it has literally what he said.

Speaker 43 (01:45:34):
And so we need you to call like right now today,
pick a Republican, any Republican right, and don't matter which one.
And it doesn't have to be your representative either.

Speaker 2 (01:45:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:45:44):
I told everybody yesterday, Guys, every Democrats voting against it.
I said, so, Taylor, you're ba, I said, don't waste
your energy. Yeah, trying to call a Democrat in the House.
You should be calling Republicans in the House.

Speaker 43 (01:45:54):
Yes, and share the stories.

Speaker 20 (01:45:56):
There's not a like.

Speaker 43 (01:45:57):
You don't need a script, you don't need to read
off the script. You're not going to do it wrong.
And I know that some people don't like to make
phone calls.

Speaker 2 (01:46:02):
They like to text.

Speaker 43 (01:46:03):
No, they like the posts, they like to slide into dms.

Speaker 2 (01:46:06):
This is not that moment.

Speaker 1 (01:46:07):
You gotta just sump no, no, they they gotta lock
up phone lines and make that phone call.

Speaker 2 (01:46:13):
Yep, okay, one on the wall. We appreciate it.

Speaker 43 (01:46:15):
Good to see.

Speaker 2 (01:46:16):
Thanks a bunch.

Speaker 1 (01:46:17):
All right, folks, We're gonna go to a quick break
and then we're gonna come back and then hopefully this should.

Speaker 2 (01:46:23):
Be starting soon.

Speaker 1 (01:46:24):
We're gonna be caring and live right here roland Mark
unfiltered right here in the Blackstart Network.

Speaker 11 (01:46:29):
Thank thank you.

Speaker 21 (01:46:32):
On the other side of change, mass incarceration.

Speaker 22 (01:46:34):
Trump administration is doubling down on criminalization and how it
is profitable.

Speaker 23 (01:46:39):
And there's something really, really perverse about saying that we
need to put people in cages in order for other
people to have jobs.

Speaker 15 (01:46:45):
Like that is not how our economy.

Speaker 16 (01:46:47):
Should be built.

Speaker 15 (01:46:48):
Only on the other side of change, on the Blackstar.

Speaker 27 (01:46:50):
Network, Don Winzel explains how it really works the end.

Speaker 28 (01:46:58):
Chain migration, Ding Jane Migration, Shane Shane Migration, Shane Migration.

Speaker 27 (01:47:04):
At the same time, Donald Trump was viewing all this hate.
He was using a high powered lawyer and Shane Migration

Speaker 20 (01:47:14):
But the citizenship.

Speaker 29 (01:47:15):
Citizenship was just awarded to victim and my canwson.

Speaker 20 (01:47:21):

Speaker 27 (01:47:22):
At the same time, plagiarizing plastic First Lady Milannia Trump
had kids pulled from their cages for this stage photo op.

Speaker 20 (01:47:32):

Speaker 27 (01:47:34):

Speaker 20 (01:47:38):

Speaker 27 (01:47:40):
be in the United States illegally, so he spent the

Speaker 30 (01:47:48):
his wife got to stay in the country with EB
one visa, the so called Einstein visa.

Speaker 16 (01:47:55):
O Stephen arnolphysics.

Speaker 27 (01:47:56):
And when you think of extraordinary ability, it don't exactly
think of Milania but Trump didn't care.

Speaker 20 (01:48:06):
He just wanted it done.

Speaker 27 (01:48:07):
Meet Michael Wilds, the high power lawyer who helped secure
US citizenship for Malania Trump and her parents, Victor and
Amia Cant and a green card for her sister in
esk See.

Speaker 20 (01:48:16):
When Malania became.

Speaker 27 (01:48:17):
A citizen in two thousand and six, it gave her
the right to sponsor her parents and sisters, hence the
name chhane migration. Trump destroyed families and sold a closed
border policy to his face while using chain migration to
bring in his own family. At the same time that
Department of Homeland Security were ripping children from their mother's
arms and locking them in cages, Alania's family was walking
out of court with a personal security escort of Department

(01:48:39):
of Homeland Security officers.

Speaker 20 (01:48:40):
Note the patches on the uniform.

Speaker 27 (01:48:42):
for brown I met with.

Speaker 31 (01:48:46):
The border patrol agents and are they doing a great job?

Speaker 20 (01:48:51):

Speaker 27 (01:48:53):
parents in yu years. How long can Trump keep them
in prison? Do they get out when they're eighteen? Do
they spend their entire childhood in a cage. Do they
ever get out that back? Do they ever get out?

Speaker 29 (01:49:15):
Now?

Speaker 20 (01:49:15):
Streaming on the Blackstar Network in France.

Speaker 24 (01:49:19):
ME and Tony and accidentally went to the little Bright
but I had never been in. I saw side door
and we got the little bus and said.

Speaker 34 (01:49:26):
Let's go over me.

Speaker 16 (01:49:27):
I'm just like, let's go to the We're here.

Speaker 34 (01:49:30):
This black girl is at the door with this white guy,
black African girl and she says, oh my god, dolaway.

Speaker 58 (01:49:38):
And I'm like this, you know it?

Speaker 2 (01:49:40):
And come to find out we read the wrong door.

Speaker 21 (01:49:43):
We just said, I'm like, you just go in here.

Speaker 16 (01:49:46):
But I was in Paris, France, and that shot me.
She knew my name, she knew me my movie. You know.
So it's like this. Guys they say building, they will come.

Speaker 55 (01:49:58):
I said, people will find it.

Speaker 20 (01:50:14):

Speaker 32 (01:50:17):
I had been trying to get a record deal for
a long time.

Speaker 11 (01:50:20):
You know.

Speaker 2 (01:50:20):
When I finally got.

Speaker 33 (01:50:21):
Signed to the Motown record label in two thousand and three,
I was thirty four to thirty five years old, and
up until that time, I had been trying to get
record deals the traditional way.

Speaker 11 (01:50:33):
You know, you record your demo you record.

Speaker 33 (01:50:35):
Your music and you send it, you know, to the
record labels, or maybe somebody a friend of a friend
And really chemistry was that was my last ditch effort
at being in the music business.

Speaker 2 (01:50:52):
How long have you been trying.

Speaker 33 (01:50:53):
I've been trying since I was since I was a teenager. Wow,
and and and you know, and I'm grateful that it didn't.
I'm grateful that it happened when it happened, because I
wasn't prepared, you know, as a teenager to embrace all
that comes with the career in the in the music industry.

Speaker 59 (01:51:25):
All right.

Speaker 60 (01:51:25):
I am Tommedy Davidson. I play Oscar on Proud Family,
Louder and Prouder. I don't say I don't play Sammy,
but I could, Or I don't play Obama, but I could.
I don't douce the loan, but I could do all that.
And I am here with Roland Martin on Unfiltered.

Speaker 1 (01:51:48):
All right, folks, in just a moment, the ruction about
car because it is going to start. They brought these
chairs out here.

Speaker 2 (01:51:52):
They got some.

Speaker 1 (01:51:53):
Different young folks out here who are impacted people. So
they're going to be having them talk as well, and
so we're about to carry that live. So they about
to start right now. So they're about to file in,
and so here we go. Uh and so uh they're
gonna grab the mike here. Uh and so good to
see Cona's mama.

Speaker 2 (01:52:10):
Hey, good to see absolutely, absolutely absolutely.

Speaker 28 (01:52:15):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:52:15):
And so we're gonna start in just a moment here
uh and uh here what they got to say, we'll
call that all right, So again be named named the
folks here.

Speaker 16 (01:52:28):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:52:28):
You see, you've got Congresswoman Lawn Underwood.

Speaker 1 (01:52:31):
You got congress woman and Frederika Wilson, the congress Woman
Evet Clark. Uh, you've got Congressman Troy Carter, New Orleans
congress woman and George Baby Congressman Hank Johnson. You've got
cononman uh Lucy McBath. You've got congress congress Woman uh
uh Latifa here. And then you've got of course Congssman
Maxine Waters and other members are gonna be coming as well.

Speaker 61 (01:52:51):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:52:51):
And so we're gonna hear from them, and uh in
just a second. That's conquient with tif and Simon who's
on the far left as well.

Speaker 20 (01:53:08):
So there we go.

Speaker 1 (01:53:11):
So we're about to start in the second all right, Yeah,
I got the I got the I got the d J.

Speaker 2 (01:53:22):
I mike up here. They got to spare there.

Speaker 1 (01:53:23):
Speaker here as well, folks, so we'll be able to
hear them, and so we'll we'll work through it, all right,
mar does that speak wrong?

Speaker 2 (01:53:43):
No, it's not on gonna so let me think. Uh so,
folks you're watching.

Speaker 1 (01:54:01):
Let me thank Rebecca, Matt and Scott for being with us,
and so stuff changed quickly, and so I appreciate y'all
being on today's panel.

Speaker 2 (01:54:09):
Uh so, let's go ahead. We'll get started from the
US Capital.

Speaker 62 (01:54:23):
Yeah, we need to pull that cood yet. Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry,
there you go, drink. I think there you go.

Speaker 2 (01:54:39):
All right, you're ready, ready.

Speaker 5 (01:54:42):
Good evening everyone.

Speaker 63 (01:54:46):
I want to thank Congress this moment Clark.

Speaker 3 (01:54:49):
For inviting us all today.

Speaker 63 (01:54:52):
And if you know the CBC, the Compressional Black Caucus,
we know that it is in our tradition.

Speaker 64 (01:54:59):
To honor the folks who have driven the way we
have Maxie Waters and others. But the heart thank you
for allowing you to sp Farst.

Speaker 65 (01:55:08):
As the newest member of the Congressional Black CONCA.

Speaker 64 (01:55:14):
I want to be clear why we are here and
why we will not leave to this floor until all
vote hell no, every single m bread.

Speaker 63 (01:55:22):
But the unconsciousness of the Congressional Black Caucus has always
been cute that.

Speaker 64 (01:55:29):
We have fought for poor people. We have fought for
folks bread and who.

Speaker 63 (01:55:34):
We have been consistent literally in the theology of freedom
that everyone deserves rightful treatment.

Speaker 64 (01:55:41):
When you are said you deserve healthcare, that.

Speaker 5 (01:55:44):
Are community serve deep a bussing, and that no fuck alive.

Speaker 63 (01:55:49):
Many of people all have watched these folks as I
have over the years, standing on the Congressional floor, sometimes
sitting on the floor, being are to the evil that
exists in that dome. And one of the things that
we need to be clear about tonight to be seeing
your hear the wise of how our heroes who will

(01:56:11):
march up those pairs in just an hour or so,
what we can be bringing with us. We are drinking
for every single out there in our community that is
on Medicaid.

Speaker 64 (01:56:21):
We are building the love of the.

Speaker 63 (01:56:24):
Many foster parents that we are supporting and cheering for,
I think because they work as.

Speaker 64 (01:56:29):
The Republicans try to fill their Medicaid.

Speaker 5 (01:56:32):
We are loving on the young people.

Speaker 63 (01:56:34):
And every single city and all get these tapes and
territories who are living on a six dollars a fact
a day and saying, not only do you confer that
you deserve more, whether these folks behind us are trying
to rip your dignity and take the mental.

Speaker 64 (01:56:50):
Benefits that your grandmother has worked for.

Speaker 2 (01:56:53):
We say.

Speaker 64 (01:56:55):
We are going to continue to fight and.

Speaker 63 (01:56:57):
Know will never go he will never give up. Now
we don't know what's going to happen on the other
side of the vote.

Speaker 66 (01:57:07):
Overall we know, Dance Door, that black.

Speaker 63 (01:57:10):
Folks in Congress who belong to this pocket will never
give up on our rightful, our rightful of sun. Let
that to consistently tell the truth and stand in you.

Speaker 67 (01:57:22):
To me and I want to give it back.

Speaker 64 (01:57:24):
Represent the start, and I want to thank you for
your stewardship. And I want to thank you Mattine and
others for leading the way for young people all over
the country to remember the words.

Speaker 66 (01:57:36):
And it's you all to remember the.

Speaker 64 (01:57:37):
Words of elevating elevator was so clear.

Speaker 5 (01:57:41):
She said, young people come.

Speaker 64 (01:57:43):
First, because you will have the courage where we fail.
If we do not fight for them now, there will
be no.

Speaker 63 (01:57:50):
Future that you will owe so this coupment explores and
hopefully we will bring your voice up those stairs and
make me proud to fight.

Speaker 7 (01:57:58):
Every one remark about you.

Speaker 35 (01:58:02):
Thank you talking to told me.

Speaker 29 (01:58:03):
No.

Speaker 5 (01:58:03):
You can see, I've just been given an assignment.

Speaker 29 (01:58:08):
TEC Director Vincent ever getting them around.

Speaker 20 (01:58:10):
Of a cause.

Speaker 5 (01:58:13):
His assignment.

Speaker 68 (01:58:14):
He's instructed me to instruct each of you, and even
in some of the organizations that are here.

Speaker 69 (01:58:21):
I c LDS is here and one or two others
will hear from them tonight.

Speaker 68 (01:58:26):
He's he wants us to want each of you to
articulate the why and the who, the who and the
why you are here speaking on behalf of any one
of your constituents who is gonna be affected or in
fact devastated.

Speaker 69 (01:58:46):
By what this pill to figure us that bill will
do so that people can hear us and we can
meet them on the ground. That's what Vincent that todas
to us is that okay, he has me, shall I
can just come up here.

Speaker 2 (01:58:58):
And that I want yall it don't be.

Speaker 10 (01:59:02):
H you want to do that first to.

Speaker 66 (01:59:04):
Get the foe describe.

Speaker 70 (01:59:08):
I'm here for persons that the way and folks who
are waiting for us to continuously stand up for then
I'm careful f like I said.

Speaker 66 (01:59:14):
Foster foster children, young people who are partuated, but better
when the work coming home from prisons to jail. Here
for the disabled community who are.

Speaker 50 (01:59:22):
Literally fighting to survive and fighting to a man.

Speaker 5 (01:59:25):
Our wives, our wives are to be listen with the
folks that represents the folks who lead us to the poste.

Speaker 71 (01:59:37):
Benjamin, I have changed children national newspapers, publishers and paper
rather than the black press of America. I'm so pleased
to be here with the progressive Black caucause. And let
me just think, you say, Christin Moon.

Speaker 10 (01:59:53):
Black Americans.

Speaker 5 (01:59:55):
Are opposed to this.

Speaker 35 (01:59:57):
Peer and we've come today to and with the Congression
by focus.

Speaker 71 (02:00:02):
This building is gonna be devastating to Black America. It's
gonna be devastating, uh.

Speaker 35 (02:00:09):
To people who have medicators, devastating the people who are gonna.

Speaker 66 (02:00:13):
Lose their healthcare.

Speaker 71 (02:00:15):
I have a system counsel for who wore the Royal
Hospital in Ospital, North Carolina.

Speaker 35 (02:00:24):
If she called me the day she said they're.

Speaker 66 (02:00:27):
Gonna have to close the hospital, it's this still O
pay So this is that's not for.

Speaker 71 (02:00:32):
The urban community, its suburban community and thoughts for the
royal community.

Speaker 35 (02:00:37):
The people who are voting for this bill have no
care about the majority of America, and so we have
to stand with the cdds.

Speaker 71 (02:00:50):
We have to stand with all the communities to oppose
this bill now and forevermore, never to allow this deal
to be passed.

Speaker 72 (02:01:00):
Yeah, you know, if someone you want to hear about
the personal stories.

Speaker 73 (02:01:06):
People anything, I'm kind.

Speaker 66 (02:01:13):
Of woman Lauren Underwood. I'm honored to represent the fourteenth
Congressional District.

Speaker 50 (02:01:17):
Of Illinois, and I am here thinking about the billions
of Americans to get healthcare coverage, to be Affordable Care
Act or obama'sare who have benefited from some past credit
that we had signed to law under Joe Biden that
allowed four out of five people to get healthcare for.

Speaker 66 (02:01:35):
Ten dollars or less of life.

Speaker 64 (02:01:36):
Now you all, they know that I'm.

Speaker 66 (02:01:38):
A record for nurse mode and I have pre bisty conditions.

Speaker 50 (02:01:40):
Myself and I have had Obamacare coverage, and I know
what it means that you get a bill for.

Speaker 66 (02:01:46):
A premium that's expedative.

Speaker 50 (02:01:47):
And so the opportunity to lower healthcare costs of the
American people was so popular that we had the lowest
number of uninsured Americans in US history. We did that,
and this bill would rip it away.

Speaker 66 (02:02:01):
The Republicans have been tried to extend these tax credits
that have offered the promise of healthcare coverage to going
into America, and now we know.

Speaker 50 (02:02:10):
That seventeen million people will lose their coverage and a
pleasance of millions.

Speaker 66 (02:02:15):
More will keep their cost ride when this will pass it.
That's why I'll be voted sol and I want to
remind people that none of this was inevitable. We have
an opportunity right now to continue to raise our voices.

Speaker 50 (02:02:28):
So if you haven't made a call to a House
Republicans and shared your own healthcare story, told them how
the closure of a rural hospital, or enclosure of a
nursing home, or asclosure of a community.

Speaker 66 (02:02:40):
Clinic but hurt you and your family and your community.
Please don't wait another moment, pick up the phone and
make a call.

Speaker 50 (02:02:47):
Right here to United States Congress and let the House
Republicants know the damage that they are.

Speaker 66 (02:02:52):
Inflicting on our community safety.

Speaker 74 (02:02:59):
Wilson, I mean, well, I'm part of I don't think
you don't how close to your mouth there.

Speaker 70 (02:03:10):
I'm protect women predict to rot from buying Florida.

Speaker 58 (02:03:14):
I'm a small former supre for the farm, and I know.

Speaker 73 (02:03:20):
What happens when the children comes too.

Speaker 66 (02:03:24):
When you've cut back. That's so that's what's going to
happen to you say, I'm the children.

Speaker 26 (02:03:31):
Are not.

Speaker 58 (02:03:33):
Const school with a full reference and a fool.

Speaker 66 (02:03:37):
Because they have already cut it out.

Speaker 58 (02:03:39):
And and I want you to know that by days
I'm a rich form.

Speaker 5 (02:03:46):
They have built something called out of food and Alphethra.

Speaker 75 (02:03:50):
The funding for Albathe and Alcatraz is ny and all
hundred killed.

Speaker 5 (02:03:58):
In scholars the operas.

Speaker 16 (02:04:01):
So that's why I.

Speaker 50 (02:04:05):
Because I represented so many Native Americans, so many Gromantic Americans.

Speaker 58 (02:04:20):
Have free rush.

Speaker 5 (02:04:22):
She's all.

Speaker 66 (02:04:27):
Say it don't happen. There's a number that's tall, and
they ask me, who do you want to seep?

Speaker 5 (02:04:38):
Let's tell them and you I saw that representity.

Speaker 66 (02:04:48):
Thankful here that's trying to tug.

Speaker 5 (02:04:53):
And sat in the light.

Speaker 22 (02:05:08):
This week on the other side of change in mass incarceration,
Trump administration is doubling down criminalization and how it is profitable.

Speaker 20 (02:05:16):

Speaker 23 (02:05:17):
in cages in order for other people to have jobs
like that is not how our economy should be built.

Speaker 15 (02:05:24):

Speaker 27 (02:05:26):
works to end.

Speaker 28 (02:05:35):
Jane Migration, ending Shane Migration, Shane Shane Migration, Shane Migration.

Speaker 27 (02:05:41):
At the same time Donald Trump was viewing all this hate,
the United States, where his money bought their citizenship.

Speaker 29 (02:05:52):
Citizenship was just awarded to victim and my canals.

Speaker 20 (02:05:57):

Speaker 27 (02:05:58):
At the same time, Plagiar Rising Classic First Lady Milennia
Trump had kids pulled from their cages for the stage
photo op. Her family was living lavishly in the United
States under permanent residence of the institution.

Speaker 38 (02:06:11):
We're talking about a collapse, and that collapse has a
fripple effect across the entire city of New York because
we are all interconnected. I think about those families in
my district that are currently utilizing their SNAP benefits to

(02:06:32):
access food through food pantry. There is such an inflation
in the cost of living in our nation that we
are trying to find ways for people to be able
to access nutricious food at lower cost. Think about those

(02:06:54):
who are not nutritionally found, who are not healthy. The
nutrition we all seek also goes to our physical wealth
and mental wealth. Being without that, we can see the
constant decline in the health of the.

Speaker 5 (02:07:15):
People of a society.

Speaker 38 (02:07:17):
Not only will that the SNAP benefit, the count to
SNAP benefit, have a profound impact on our beliefs, but
it will then have a ripple effect on the health
of our people just when they won't have access, they
won't have access to medications.

Speaker 64 (02:07:36):
I think about the young people who have.

Speaker 5 (02:07:38):
These dig jobs and these.

Speaker 10 (02:07:41):
Gig were part of the dig economy.

Speaker 5 (02:07:45):
They don't have health insurance, but they were.

Speaker 38 (02:07:48):
Able to access Medicaid and so their primary year was
assured because we as a civil society looked out for
young people who are out there, striking out on their
own and just trying to get a leg up in
this economy.

Speaker 15 (02:08:06):
In our society.

Speaker 36 (02:08:08):
This is probably the most wicked thing that a government
could do to its own people, to its own people,
and to know that there are cowards, cowards in the
Republican Party that is allowing their own people to suffer

(02:08:30):
just to be able to sit at the feet of
Donald Trump is just as horrific as.

Speaker 5 (02:08:39):
We can ever imagine.

Speaker 36 (02:08:41):
I can't imagine what it is to give up my
dignity to a man who doesn't deserve it, to be
able to just maintain a seat in the Congress. But
let my constituents suffer, Let my elders.

Speaker 38 (02:08:57):
In my community suffer, Let the young people of our
community suffer. And so we are here to say hell no,
Every Democrat in the House of Representative will be voting
no on this big ugly bill.

Speaker 20 (02:09:17):
Let's give her around the ball, right.

Speaker 66 (02:09:21):
Thank you, Personal Congress.

Speaker 76 (02:09:23):
From Troy Carter from Louisiana, representing the second Congression of District.

Speaker 10 (02:09:28):
I want to first thank our chairwoman.

Speaker 66 (02:09:31):
Bring us together at a.

Speaker 35 (02:09:32):
Time when we will need together, And I will tell.

Speaker 73 (02:09:35):
You who am I here for?

Speaker 10 (02:09:38):
Who are we here for?

Speaker 40 (02:09:39):
Where are the people that don't have a voice?

Speaker 66 (02:09:41):
Where are the people that don't have a seat? Where
are people that don't have a voice?

Speaker 10 (02:09:45):
But that's okay. We're here for you.

Speaker 66 (02:09:48):
And when we're at the table, you're at the table
because we're going to continue.

Speaker 40 (02:09:50):
To fight for you.

Speaker 73 (02:09:52):
This big ugly bill is going to repave it.

Speaker 66 (02:09:55):
Throughout our country.

Speaker 63 (02:09:57):
It's going to hurt the Black community, perhaps more than
any other community.

Speaker 10 (02:10:03):
But guess what, they're gonna hurt too.

Speaker 5 (02:10:05):
And these guys don't even care because they have.

Speaker 76 (02:10:08):
Taken them to hook line and sing it, to follow
Donald Trump down a rabbit hole that they'll never come
back to.

Speaker 66 (02:10:17):
People that will be denied medicating, who.

Speaker 76 (02:10:20):
Will lose their benefits one way or the other because
they have made this so complex that you have to
reapply and reapply. Listen, if you had to reapply for
good driver's license twice a year, people would.

Speaker 10 (02:10:33):
Be able to drive.

Speaker 76 (02:10:33):
They know this because people are busy working, living, trying
to raise their families.

Speaker 10 (02:10:38):
So the expectation is people, even.

Speaker 76 (02:10:42):
Though they may be eligible, will be kicked off the
roads because they.

Speaker 64 (02:10:46):
Make the paperwork so holder us that they can't keep up.

Speaker 77 (02:10:50):
This is a trick.

Speaker 10 (02:10:52):
This is a trick of an evil regime.

Speaker 76 (02:10:55):
And we are going to as Congressional Black Conference, We're
going to continue to call it out.

Speaker 10 (02:11:00):
We're gonna call balls and strikes.

Speaker 75 (02:11:02):
We're gonna call it everywhere we go, with our fraternities
and sororities, in church organizations, with our faith based communities,
with our civil rights leaders, with the.

Speaker 76 (02:11:12):
Focus and beyond because however they vote today or tomorrow,
this battle's not open now.

Speaker 10 (02:11:18):
We're never going that way. We're never going to retreat.

Speaker 76 (02:11:22):
When I was in the state Senate, we expanded Medicaid,
and when we expanded medicaid, one of the first things
have tens of thousand people, Our people got on the roads,
People started having access to health care. Rural hospitals started
opening up. People that have been denied health care were
now being covered. Guess what will happen now? The reverse

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is also true. Those rural hospitals will close, and that
critical time.

Speaker 78 (02:11:48):
When you're having a stroke or a heart attack, those
precious moments that you no longer will have to get
to a community clinic or a rural hospital. People who
in those moments where you have to drive twenty thirty
forty fifty miles to see a doctor when you've had
a stroke.

Speaker 10 (02:12:08):
Or heart attack, people are going to die. That's just
a fact.

Speaker 76 (02:12:13):
That's a reality. And the notion that one of our
senators said, we're all gonna die.

Speaker 66 (02:12:19):
They don't need to die through naturiment.

Speaker 77 (02:12:21):
That's right, And we don't need to.

Speaker 71 (02:12:22):
Die because we were denied access to healthcare.

Speaker 64 (02:12:26):
We don't need to die three maturely.

Speaker 76 (02:12:28):
Although they seem to think, as Mitch McConnell said, don't worry,
they'll get over it.

Speaker 10 (02:12:35):
No, we won't, bitch, We're not going to get over
We're never gonna get over.

Speaker 64 (02:12:38):
And we're gonna contain a fight for the people.

Speaker 10 (02:12:40):
We're gonna make sure that the people like the.

Speaker 76 (02:12:42):
Mccorkins, who I brought up in Louisiana to come to
energy commerce, who has a child that was born severely
disabled who requires medicating now his mother and father both
were This notion that people who are medicaid or Scott
laws and blogs and gangsters and get over artists is
offensive and false.

Speaker 10 (02:13:05):
There are people out there that need medicate for a number.

Speaker 75 (02:13:08):
Of reasons, people who are employed but are underemployed, working
but still poor. Are you gonna tell me that these
people are stop laws and bumps. I think not, But
that's what they think of you, That's what they think
of our people. And this congression of black conkers and all.

Speaker 40 (02:13:26):
The people are simple.

Speaker 10 (02:13:27):
We don't think that, and we're gonna fight for you.

Speaker 64 (02:13:30):
We're gonna fight that you have access to healthcare.

Speaker 10 (02:13:32):
We're gonna fight for you to have access to snap doutars.
That's six dollars a.

Speaker 64 (02:13:36):
Day, because that's that's ridiculous and they want to reduce
it and take it away.

Speaker 71 (02:13:43):
This conference, this commerce of the Democratic side will continue
to fight for the.

Speaker 10 (02:13:49):
People and bringing justice. And we meet us all.

Speaker 5 (02:13:53):
Are gonna vote against this pey.

Speaker 40 (02:13:58):
We got.

Speaker 10 (02:14:03):
George State.

Speaker 66 (02:14:05):
Yeah, I'm not going to joyce lady.

Speaker 5 (02:14:09):
I held from the third Congressional District of the great.

Speaker 37 (02:14:12):
State of op Share America, of the progressional black Opper.

Speaker 66 (02:14:17):
I am here to during my colleague and our leaders.

Speaker 5 (02:14:20):
I'm just so many backflars to say for you that
I will be cast a no.

Speaker 35 (02:14:26):
Vote on this year.

Speaker 66 (02:14:28):
Why am I here?

Speaker 79 (02:14:30):
I am here for.

Speaker 66 (02:14:30):
Those whom we can call their.

Speaker 5 (02:14:32):
Names and those for a names.

Speaker 38 (02:14:35):
I am here for every family, every single month, every
sleep child, every child trying to get a better education,
whether they are in rural America or urban America. They
deserve their rights to keep their hosts open. They deserve
a right to keep health shah. I'm here, don't know

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because this is the largest amount of Americans that will
lose their health hit. Seventeen million families and individuals are
at Japan. Some eleven millions children will be taken off
of Sack.

Speaker 66 (02:15:21):
I am here because I.

Speaker 5 (02:15:23):
Want all of America to know that we are not
only the country of the comogy.

Speaker 38 (02:15:30):
But we are here because earlier today we stood up,
We had a stand Indian, because we are standing.

Speaker 5 (02:15:40):
For the beat.

Speaker 66 (02:15:42):
I am here because I want to make sure that.

Speaker 38 (02:15:45):
Were this clarion fall. To answer your question when you
are asked what is the Congressional Black Coppice filming.

Speaker 5 (02:15:58):
I don't want it to be a miss say.

Speaker 38 (02:16:01):
I want you to clearly say they are fighting for
our people. They are standing up and making a difference.
They are not afraid to call out Republican. Let they
make it clear that whether it is healthcare, whether it
is the pel brand, whether.

Speaker 70 (02:16:20):
It is MAP, it is not a Republican or Democrat issue.

Speaker 66 (02:16:26):
It's a people's issue. But what is a Democrat and
Republican issue.

Speaker 5 (02:16:33):
Is that Republicans do not have the current to do
what's right.

Speaker 80 (02:16:39):
And you should not forget that. My question to you
is what you are going to do, and that is
you are going to vote.

Speaker 2 (02:16:51):
You are going to.

Speaker 50 (02:16:52):
Vote, just as we are asking in the United States
Capital later tonight.

Speaker 16 (02:16:58):
That we only need.

Speaker 66 (02:17:01):
We only need.

Speaker 64 (02:17:02):
Four Republicans to join us. So I need you to remember,
we only need four, four.

Speaker 5 (02:17:12):
Republicans to save the lie.

Speaker 38 (02:17:15):
Of Newton and Newton, of children, of family, of hardworking
a So join me and let's.

Speaker 66 (02:17:25):
Say we only need four.

Speaker 5 (02:17:27):
We need four, and I yield back my son.

Speaker 81 (02:17:35):
How this affects you, Congressmanahan Johnson and those in your postitions.

Speaker 74 (02:17:40):
Thank you, sir.

Speaker 73 (02:17:42):
Good evening everyone, and I am proud to be here
with my fellow members of.

Speaker 82 (02:17:47):
The CDC, the Congression of Black Caucus, of the leadership
of Chairwoman ef he Clark, my classmate, and the Class
seven be It Congress the nineteen years together, and so
I'm privioused to.

Speaker 73 (02:18:02):
Be sharing this moment with you and brother, my other
members and the stakeholders who have joined us.

Speaker 83 (02:18:11):
You know, I think about over the last forty plus
years that I've been a resident of the community where
I live, which is.

Speaker 72 (02:18:23):
The fourth progressional distance of Georgia, I've.

Speaker 5 (02:18:26):
Seen the mushroom of.

Speaker 64 (02:18:31):
Dialog popping up all throughout my community.

Speaker 73 (02:18:36):
In fact that it took around in some places, and
there's a.

Speaker 35 (02:18:40):
Dialogy clinic on every corner.

Speaker 73 (02:18:44):
And it's not just older people who are going in
three or four days a week.

Speaker 82 (02:18:52):
To get dialogies to stay alive, because if they don't go,
they will die.

Speaker 10 (02:18:57):
But it's young people to that vacu who are.

Speaker 82 (02:19:01):
Suffering from tenney disease, from UH diabetes, from.

Speaker 5 (02:19:07):
High blood pressure, and.

Speaker 82 (02:19:12):
They there's thousands of them just in the fourth district.
We're making that trick every week, three or four times
a week. And many of them work, but some of
them can't work. But if I'll tell you this, most

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of those people in those dialysis and clinics could not
be there unless they were on Medicaid. And then there's
a fair number who are also on Medicare. So in
this big ugly bill, we're cutting one trillion dollars in Medicaid.

(02:19:55):
We're cutting five hundred billion dollars in Medicare, and so
we are also cutting subsidies that make health insurance affordable.

Speaker 29 (02:20:08):
For people because some of the people.

Speaker 82 (02:20:10):
That the dialysis clinics are paying with private insurance. But
when those subsidies go away, they won't have the private insurance.
And so it is a catastrophe in the making that
is going to lead to the deaths of thousands.

Speaker 20 (02:20:27):
Of people in this country.

Speaker 82 (02:20:29):
If this bill passes, fifty plus thousand people per year,
are scheduled or predicted or projected to lose their lives
because they are not going to have access to healthcare
in the richest country on earth. That is a shame, shame,

(02:20:54):
It's a shame, and anybody who votes for this bill
should be a shamed of themselves. So I'm here along
with my colleagues just be the voice for the least
of these, for those who are hungry, and we can

(02:21:16):
feed them. And I'm not gonna be one of those
who doesn't feed them.

Speaker 2 (02:21:20):
For the sick.

Speaker 82 (02:21:24):
Who need our care, I'm not gonna be one who
turns them away from care. And for the strangers our
we call them strangers, but really that's a phisical term.

Speaker 40 (02:21:39):
I'm talking about our immigrants who.

Speaker 82 (02:21:43):
Are in this community who we can shut the door,
or we can open the door so that we can
all prosper here to speak for.

Speaker 20 (02:21:51):
Them as well. And I thank you all for being here.

Speaker 10 (02:21:59):
Nick dad Scape around the Fall.

Speaker 11 (02:22:03):
Thank you.

Speaker 5 (02:22:04):
Congress Woman Lucy macbeth.

Speaker 8 (02:22:05):
I represent your the sixth Congressional district, which is all
of the suburbs of.

Speaker 66 (02:22:09):
The Lanta metropolitan area, and I.

Speaker 5 (02:22:11):
Do want to thank our share congress Woman.

Speaker 70 (02:22:15):
That Park and when I think our cheer in Merida,
I want to think the leadership of the Congression of
Black Prophet and I want to thank the organizations that
are joining us year tonight. Thank you for the step
pass lifting, standing up for democracy for the people all.

Speaker 5 (02:22:29):
Over the country debt which are actually five pool Tonight,
I will tell you I vote no on this bill tonight.

Speaker 70 (02:22:37):
And I vote no on this bill tonight because as
a two time breast cancer survivor, I remember sitting in
the office with all the other women like myself if
we were waiting to see our surdon our doctor, as
we were waiting for care to make sure that we

(02:22:58):
would survive and we would still with I remember the
discussions that wears that we have about being paid for
our care.

Speaker 5 (02:23:09):
Pay for the surgeon, pay for.

Speaker 66 (02:23:11):
The pharmaceuticals that we needed to speak.

Speaker 2 (02:23:13):
Of the lives.

Speaker 70 (02:23:14):
And I remember the discussions that I had with women
who were on ne pas, who are afraid and to
whether or not they were going to be able to
pay for their care keep them alive. We talked about
our families, We talked about our children, We talked about
are we going to be here to carry on and
take care of our families. From here tonight, you can

(02:23:36):
understand that I had good health care insurance and I've
survived cancer to what But I know there are so
many women in those countries, especially women of pullers, that
if Medicaid is cut, if the financial resources are cut

(02:23:59):
for their access to health care, they will not surfontin.

Speaker 5 (02:24:03):
They will have nowhere to turn.

Speaker 70 (02:24:06):
I'm here tonight the boat against this bill because I'm
concerned about every woman in this country who has used
planed parenthood is the only means of care, reproductive care,
not just for abortion, but for their wellness check for
birth control, and they won't have access to that anymore.

Speaker 10 (02:24:26):
Where are they going to go?

Speaker 5 (02:24:28):
Where are they going to get their healthy I am
here tonight the boat no on this bill because I
have asked over and.

Speaker 70 (02:24:36):
Over again in the state of Georgia to our governor
why he won't feed our children during the summer when
they are in summer camp. Why he refuses to feed
our children, feed our babies.

Speaker 64 (02:24:49):
And I've never been able to get ann answer.

Speaker 70 (02:24:51):
And now I'm even more afraid that they won't even
be dead during the summer, they just won't have snap
and these benefits at all. I'm here tonight and don't
know on this film because I'm so deeply and gravely
concerned about what this means with a mission. We're talking

(02:25:15):
about healthcare touch, We're talking about public education touch, We're
talking about that's wut we're talking about for those that
have disability.

Speaker 10 (02:25:27):
We're talking about.

Speaker 70 (02:25:28):
A whole gammit of touch that will just completely rip
the boot from underneath the feet of so many people
in this country every single day that are struggling to
get on.

Speaker 5 (02:25:40):
So I'm voting no tonight for those people who don't
have a voice.

Speaker 84 (02:25:45):
I'm voting no tonight against this diabolical, unempaple, im moral
piece of legislation that will change democracy here.

Speaker 70 (02:25:58):
In the United States for rations to come. I've only
known this piece of legislation because.

Speaker 84 (02:26:04):
All of the people who have been in this building,
who've been in this capital, who's been on this hill.

Speaker 70 (02:26:12):
Long before I falk to other girds and support America,
and I go on, if I'm gonna let all the
works that he's done go down.

Speaker 16 (02:26:24):
And dang, yeah, thank you time.

Speaker 5 (02:26:30):
Make sure what it's the l of you.

Speaker 53 (02:26:36):
All my.

Speaker 58 (02:26:38):
Gold for all of the world that you do every day,
and even though you have a pricey leg.

Speaker 67 (02:26:46):
You're excited given what others don't know.

Speaker 58 (02:26:51):
Here every day, whether you're going with the teaching.

Speaker 66 (02:26:54):
The can whether.

Speaker 67 (02:26:57):
Whether to thank this this happens, it happened, isout something
may happened.

Speaker 11 (02:27:09):
Who wasn't the Do you know who it is?

Speaker 5 (02:27:14):
It's the President of the United States of America, Donald Tuck.

Speaker 64 (02:27:18):
You know that just untuned cool bow down thirty.

Speaker 67 (02:27:23):
President of the United States, and jus is the second
power uses.

Speaker 37 (02:27:28):
The secutive orders to change this country and mindset nobody
ever thought to do. Our ancest have bought very hard
for us to come.

Speaker 58 (02:27:40):
To the time when wouldn't Ben have halfwt to to
come to the time where we was all dying from
presentable because I am so summer time as.

Speaker 67 (02:27:50):
Wait where families didn't have in primary doctor.

Speaker 55 (02:27:56):
The only way that you saw that back to my
hospital with the new brother arm A broth Allergan God.

Speaker 37 (02:28:03):
Yet back hard that was no testing. It that the
sense many folk and sacified that worked hard to get
us to a place, well we're gonna have have made
you to care we still are working because they sure
it run of the success.

Speaker 10 (02:28:19):
But before we could get.

Speaker 37 (02:28:20):
There, the school president, expecting his power, understanding that work
the people elect.

Speaker 67 (02:28:27):
You, that you confuse your and send you power to
do whatever.

Speaker 2 (02:28:37):
Readian Inn and get.

Speaker 37 (02:28:39):
Any little less him because he's a prisinal that's not
the matter.

Speaker 58 (02:28:43):
Being the president of the United States has a lot
of power and that and take the power he's being.

Speaker 5 (02:28:50):
Used now to make sure that he takes care of it.

Speaker 2 (02:28:57):
That they all want.

Speaker 10 (02:28:59):
So that's the rest.

Speaker 67 (02:29:01):
Satting with them probably sat Now.

Speaker 55 (02:29:04):
We're in talk and we're gonna do whatever we need
to do to make sure that all of this government
money is not going to those people that those who
are they talking about, They're talking about us. They're talking
about poor people. They're talking about people who work every
day who make minimum wages and low wage.

Speaker 10 (02:29:26):
They're talking about people, some of them who.

Speaker 55 (02:29:28):
Vote for them and rule communities that don't even know
who's undermining them.

Speaker 32 (02:29:34):
We know, and we fight.

Speaker 55 (02:29:36):
I'm mad as hell and I want to tell you,
and it's not just about being mentioned they of course.

Speaker 35 (02:29:42):
I'm not going to vote for the Hill, but we've
got to be on the street.

Speaker 55 (02:29:46):
We've got to be fighting in the way that the
civil rights people have taught us about. We've got to organize,
We've got to get out there. The young people are interested.
We have got to help them to understand. When they
understood what happened up in Minneapolis, Black Lives Matter came alive.

Speaker 10 (02:30:06):
They were on the streets of America. We need them
on the streets now.

Speaker 55 (02:30:10):
And so we don't know what's gonna happen tonight. We
don't know where the rule is gonna come up. We
don't know whether the rule is going to pass. We
know that there are some members vote on the Republican
side of the whole party.

Speaker 10 (02:30:23):
The Democrats are all together.

Speaker 55 (02:30:25):
We have a wonderful leader in High King Jeffers, and
we were kept the Democrats together and that's confet and
we all vote against this field when it went through
the House, right it got to the Senate.

Speaker 10 (02:30:39):
They don't know which it is up.

Speaker 55 (02:30:41):
And now they've got some over there who were found
out that their constituents are finding out that they have
valus remarks.

Speaker 10 (02:30:49):
They didn't know but they voted for him.

Speaker 55 (02:30:51):
That it left them too, and so some of them
are begging for us on this side to now bail
them out.

Speaker 10 (02:31:00):
We need four votes.

Speaker 55 (02:31:01):
MS Baby has said just.

Speaker 10 (02:31:03):
For a vote.

Speaker 2 (02:31:04):
But I want you to know we've.

Speaker 55 (02:31:05):
Got some scared, intimidated volts over there, who's so worried
about their primary.

Speaker 10 (02:31:12):
Well, let me tell you about our primary. Our primaries
know when we're working for the ts right.

Speaker 55 (02:31:17):
Our primis know when we're fighting business, and nobody with
no big amount of money can take us out if
we're doing the people's business. I sn't know and how
the people to understand and to educate the people about
what this government is and what it's all about. I

(02:31:38):
want to tell you Trump is in office as co
president Elama and they got together and decide that the
way to give that tax break was to get rid
of so many employees doing all of this work that
they don't need to do because the people they're doing
it for don't deserve it anyway. Well, I want to

(02:31:59):
tell you if they cheated in order to win in
the first place.

Speaker 10 (02:32:04):
I want to tell you I am not intimidated.

Speaker 55 (02:32:07):
By anybody, any place, anywhere. And so it is because
of the strength of our prediction that we're gonna win.
In the final announcement, we don't get this vote today,
We're gonna win because we're gonna find harder. We're gonna
help people to understand what has happened as understanding what

(02:32:28):
has happened when you didn't know that the president had this.

Speaker 58 (02:32:31):
Kind of power?

Speaker 55 (02:32:32):
Is gonna give you power and never again should we
control it. We contronted with the President of the United States,
who's using the executive powers to deal with this honor,
low down dirty pool man is doing. And so we
hope that there are enough four votes, because this lady said,
we hope there are four votes who will finally get

(02:32:53):
some strength and say sorry, mister President, we just can't
give it to you. We don't know whether that's gonna
happen or not, and I know a lot of people
to pray that that will happen.

Speaker 10 (02:33:06):
I'm gonna try to pray.

Speaker 16 (02:33:07):
I'm gonna really try.

Speaker 55 (02:33:09):
But in addition to that, I'm going to continue to.

Speaker 10 (02:33:12):
Fight ladies and gentlemen. I'm eighty six years old.

Speaker 16 (02:33:16):
Yeah, you know, I've been on the street.

Speaker 55 (02:33:20):
In eight profect So California, all throughout lah to DC.

Speaker 16 (02:33:25):
And guess what I got strength at eight pour twelve.
I will never start a.

Speaker 5 (02:33:33):
Lot of fun times.

Speaker 55 (02:33:35):
I'm going there kill them. About one hundred and ten,
I thought it could stop on here. Nobody could stop
and ladies and gentlemen. We hope they do the right thing, okay,
but we don't know, and if they don't, we will
not stop fighting anyway.

Speaker 16 (02:33:55):
Don't you wear about.

Speaker 10 (02:33:59):
I'm going to let you line. Hey man, thank you.

Speaker 72 (02:34:05):
No, that's what is wonderful and good for me. Probably
remembers what we're going to do is hear from from
young people. But we know members they have physy schedules.
If the interview you have to leave, you have he goes, okay,
and that's nice. Members gonna let the young people take
a seat.

Speaker 10 (02:34:25):
Come on, y'all, come on you young people.

Speaker 2 (02:34:27):
That's what that's what they're hearing.

Speaker 20 (02:34:29):
They want to hear from you.

Speaker 12 (02:34:32):
All right.

Speaker 72 (02:34:39):
We're also folks that we're streaming all over the country.

Speaker 10 (02:34:42):
People are watching this everywhere.

Speaker 72 (02:34:45):
There's a larger crowd watching than it may be here,
and that's important. Now Congress Zuman has given the young
staff permission.

Speaker 10 (02:34:57):
To cust on the top of ground A man.

Speaker 20 (02:35:02):
All right, well, so let's go.

Speaker 35 (02:35:04):
Let's start here.

Speaker 72 (02:35:05):
Since I'm on this, I'm also gonna hear from families
USA and LDF. We appreciate them being here. So young people,
we want to hear how this while you're here. And
how this personally affects you. Be sure to say your
name and where you're from.

Speaker 2 (02:35:27):
Hello everyone.

Speaker 29 (02:35:28):
One of them is Availaball.

Speaker 72 (02:35:29):
I'm from New Orleans, Louisiana and a rising sophomore at
Yale University.

Speaker 20 (02:35:33):
Oh, I'm here today.

Speaker 72 (02:35:34):
Because I'm also serving in Congress Fool and Lauren Underwoo's office.

Speaker 10 (02:35:37):
I'm on the a steeping end of how.

Speaker 72 (02:35:38):
This phone calls from constituency by worrying about everything that
has gone on, from older people worrying.

Speaker 40 (02:35:45):
About their Medicare and Medicaid being put.

Speaker 73 (02:35:47):
Off, to the younger people just worrying about other factors.

Speaker 20 (02:35:50):
And single mothers.

Speaker 69 (02:35:51):
My mother is a single mother herself, living under a
single mother's house.

Speaker 82 (02:35:57):
It really has been really a test at certain times
we've had we've had snapped benefice.

Speaker 73 (02:36:04):
And I could not imagine, like living in a household
would this would not be.

Speaker 20 (02:36:07):
A flaw, it would not be available to it.

Speaker 10 (02:36:09):
So I'm just I hope they're Republicans gone, four of both.

Speaker 61 (02:36:12):
I hope four of us can be strong enough is condemned.

Speaker 15 (02:36:16):
This administration and everything that's go off because it's necessary.

Speaker 10 (02:36:19):
We're living in the berries.

Speaker 2 (02:36:20):
It's a very amazing time to.

Speaker 20 (02:36:22):
Continue, Queen amazing.

Speaker 73 (02:36:25):
Well, yeah, hello everyone. My name is Jonathan McKee.

Speaker 48 (02:36:32):
I'm from Los Angeles, California, typically the forty third district
of a progressional district under a confra from a maximum
water and I'm here today at arriving sophomore at Yale University,
and i am a CCF inturn as well. And we
are living at a time where we cannot allow the
administration here today impact us in the way that they

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are and taking vital programs away from the people of America.
I for we have experienced where my grandpa is on
Medicare and he is currently bent down in a nursing
facility in the middle of about in California.

Speaker 73 (02:37:08):
Now, we do not know what is going to happen
to camp.

Speaker 48 (02:37:10):
After everything that has been going on with this administration,
with the votes that have been happening, and everything is
between the votes that have just been going on. So
we need to mobilize and continue having basics like this,
we're able to talk about what is going on in
America and how we.

Speaker 7 (02:37:26):
Can protect the lives of people everywhere, regardless.

Speaker 48 (02:37:31):
Of where they're from or rural counties from from urban
areas and.

Speaker 10 (02:37:34):
Everything the team.

Speaker 66 (02:37:36):
It's very important.

Speaker 85 (02:37:37):
That is why I'm here listening two constituents from all
open plains that live in rural community.

Speaker 73 (02:37:43):
That are suffering from different places and different our.

Speaker 86 (02:37:48):
Little like traditional medical conditions that are hurting them.

Speaker 85 (02:37:53):
Then a day out and we do not know what
happens to little hospital there are do not know what's.

Speaker 66 (02:37:58):
Going to happen. It's past. If other benefits that are
happening in impact.

Speaker 85 (02:38:03):
Across America are taking away, seventeen million Americans are going
to be at break for several programs.

Speaker 73 (02:38:11):
We cannot let the chapter.

Speaker 66 (02:38:13):
We can be fighting and they could make the remobilize
good evening.

Speaker 40 (02:38:24):
I am Vancouver.

Speaker 73 (02:38:27):
I am a member of that.

Speaker 87 (02:38:28):
State student association as well as president of the Mass
and w PRE chapter. And I'm here today because as
a voice for students across the country.

Speaker 66 (02:38:39):
You can't cut out.

Speaker 73 (02:38:41):
You can't raise the price for student.

Speaker 66 (02:38:44):
Plus loans from can't trust loans, you can't privatize that
because if you.

Speaker 86 (02:38:49):
Privatize that, it needs us vulnerable to private lenders who
are sharks who will do anything they can just to
have thirty years came student loans. And I'm here because
education is the right.

Speaker 22 (02:39:03):
I can leave.

Speaker 66 (02:39:04):
Education is the right, Paul.

Speaker 35 (02:39:05):
Where where you come from.

Speaker 66 (02:39:07):
I'm here for Crayford, Massachusetts, not them to leave.

Speaker 88 (02:39:10):
I'll ever be here outside of the capital. But I'm
here because I'm a student of history.

Speaker 86 (02:39:16):
And today in the sixty fourth anniversary of the Civil
Rights Act being signed into law, and also the birthday
of the date Supreme Court Justice Urgood Marshall. So I
think today, in the day of history, day of Recogne.

Speaker 88 (02:39:30):
History will remember who those quarter punctions are if they
sign and say no to the big, beautiful, big ugly bill.
But if they go along with their party, history will
remember them as well. If history will remember what Donald
Trump is doing it has done for this country, insurrection
or take election, fraudulent election, History will remember.

Speaker 5 (02:39:52):
And that's why I'm here.

Speaker 81 (02:39:56):
Men, We just say since I've govern mentioned the good
module of the Civil Rights Today is also the one
hundred birthday of mega EVA And today is also going
on the same day the one hundred birth day off
for Treats of the move So this is a free
fid to day.

Speaker 66 (02:40:12):
Amen.

Speaker 18 (02:40:15):
All right.

Speaker 65 (02:40:16):
My name is Chloe Parkson and I am here from
a small town in Alabama.

Speaker 4 (02:40:21):
I attend the University of Alabama. If you ask me
why I'm here, I would say, I'm here because somebody
has to Somebody has to speak up, somebody has to advocate,
somebody has to.

Speaker 5 (02:40:35):
Make a change.

Speaker 4 (02:40:35):
If we all go along with this idea of selfishness,
of not looking out for the people that cannot speak.

Speaker 5 (02:40:42):
Up for themselves, who are help us of medicaid is children.

Speaker 67 (02:40:50):
If they can't sympathize with children, think they can sympathize
with us.

Speaker 4 (02:40:54):
No, we have to advocate for ourselves as black people,
as minority and.

Speaker 5 (02:41:00):
Everybody else, not even just finority. This still will impact
set the higher nation.

Speaker 4 (02:41:07):
It's something that if this happen, you will help the
difference when you wake up the next month.

Speaker 5 (02:41:13):
So make sure that you help to be the change,
to be the positive impact and not the.

Speaker 66 (02:41:26):
Hello.

Speaker 10 (02:41:26):
My name is Philip Will.

Speaker 73 (02:41:28):
I'm gonna know about Ladies Cavata distract.

Speaker 89 (02:41:30):
Because I'm fellow Silchart. I follow some pert SCS world,
and if I'm here furst efforts to about the app
not just yet of our type. I can remitte if
I were doing my voice, I'll be revenged if I
were delver to this information without probably talking about my
perfect story.

Speaker 53 (02:41:51):
I have the son Epo imigrants who in a very
smotility way I can nind you or hopefully their lives.

Speaker 87 (02:41:58):
Around my uprising and myself, my prison, my parents under
I just went to a great struggles scream idea.

Speaker 66 (02:42:04):
My sister are in a.

Speaker 87 (02:42:05):
Way that was constilled to the marriage to drink they
brought us in the world. In the city community was multiple.

Speaker 66 (02:42:12):
Still in the sirs and had all the things that
I believed in the American.

Speaker 87 (02:42:16):
Democracy society would have today. The good Jill Professional Health
Administration worked to undo and undermine the very principals that
talks to the community that I looked the life.

Speaker 5 (02:42:29):
Democracy does die in the darkness.

Speaker 89 (02:42:31):
We believe that everyone to cons to represented, engaging within
their government and their institutions to ensure that their.

Speaker 66 (02:42:37):
Voices are properly heard.

Speaker 20 (02:42:39):
For the port from the vote the boat.

Speaker 90 (02:42:40):
Tomorrow will be more than just work in Cliation bill.
They'll be a referendum of the principals that talks to
our American community. To the mother who was lying time
food stands to figure children, to the young woman in
Molsvegas who's lying to time medicaid.

Speaker 2 (02:42:58):
Her and her grandmother, the.

Speaker 53 (02:43:00):
Young idea of the American boys to this day still
looks in America flush football has to offer it. We're
able to get this bill as just some work on
the bolts as opposed for our democraty and this is Petegety,
United States.

Speaker 7 (02:43:13):
Thank you.

Speaker 5 (02:43:18):
Mean everyone, and thanks you.

Speaker 66 (02:43:19):
Guys being here.

Speaker 50 (02:43:21):
My name is Laura Nacion.

Speaker 66 (02:43:22):
I am from Baltimore, Maryland. I attendee Lovely.

Speaker 4 (02:43:25):
Morgan State University. If I is also a personal antidote.
Growing up, my family relied on text we relied on SNAB.
A lot of the fresh produes I have was because
of the benefits of w c F SNAP.

Speaker 5 (02:43:39):
But Baltimore is one of the most.

Speaker 4 (02:43:42):
Honestly one of the most poverty spec in cities, the
majority black city.

Speaker 66 (02:43:45):
We suffer from food deserts. I look at the fool
desert now because it's being a.

Speaker 4 (02:43:48):
Border of state university campus. So I've seen what lack
of food ass does not only to students, but to family,
to individuals, and I've experienced it just moving along in
my where I moved out of my house at sixteen.
You know, at sixteen you don't know anything. I know,
I didn't know anything, So that meant that in order
to receive healthcare, I have to rely on Medicaide and

(02:44:10):
I still do to this day. So I know one
of the people who will be fantasted by this.

Speaker 15 (02:44:16):
Bill and the epathetic goes through.

Speaker 5 (02:44:19):
And because I was on.

Speaker 66 (02:44:20):
Not because I received three lines.

Speaker 5 (02:44:21):
Those are the reasons why I was able to attend college.

Speaker 66 (02:44:23):
I thought the labors because I was able to rely
on that benefits.

Speaker 5 (02:44:28):
And I was able to attend.

Speaker 4 (02:44:29):
Working State University on a full ride because I have
a repers that I needed in order to obtain an education.

Speaker 38 (02:44:37):
I know a lot of students, especially a lot of
young flat children, football for my jobs about opportunity.

Speaker 5 (02:44:41):
So I'm here to advocate.

Speaker 4 (02:44:43):
I would say, I'm here to advocate not only for myself,
but for my community.

Speaker 66 (02:44:46):
For my sisters and brothers. But the people who were going.

Speaker 4 (02:44:49):
Through besist me and didn't speak up for my immigrant
sistors and brothers.

Speaker 5 (02:44:53):
For my people who have experienced helmet and security like
I have.

Speaker 66 (02:44:57):
I'm here for everyone, and I'm proud to be.

Speaker 5 (02:45:01):
Is what we're here for nowhere and.

Speaker 66 (02:45:09):
Believing everybody about it at about in charge, and I
would be revent if I value child privilege and honored.
I am to be able to share my story about.

Speaker 73 (02:45:22):
My fear of how pasful it will would be.

Speaker 66 (02:45:26):
On all of our lives.

Speaker 5 (02:45:28):
Make you share a little bit about men by family.

Speaker 66 (02:45:31):
W here two thousand four, as refuge.

Speaker 5 (02:45:33):
Can tell toident it was medicay, it was medic.

Speaker 10 (02:45:37):
Care SA for this country.

Speaker 52 (02:45:41):
It gave us peace of mind knowing that we had
food to eat, knowing that we had our central services
taken care of, that we could engage in our education.
It was snap benefits that supported me through college, knowing
that I could focus on classes, that I could focus
on my education and not worry about what it had to.

Speaker 15 (02:45:58):
Eat at the end of the day.

Speaker 52 (02:46:01):
What I want my story in my testimony to be
one that is representative of many across the United States
who this. Without this support, they would be able to
establish themselves in a new country. Education has been the
great equalizer in our society. Our ancestors have long are

(02:46:22):
for our educational rights.

Speaker 15 (02:46:24):
We're all proud to be.

Speaker 52 (02:46:25):
Here today to be pursuing our education so that we
may fight for the generation that follows and amongst our
peers as well. So I would just be permissed to
say that, you know, to say that I'm not proud
and honored.

Speaker 31 (02:46:36):
To be here.

Speaker 15 (02:46:37):
And it's just thank you for letting me share.

Speaker 32 (02:46:39):
Miss thank you.

Speaker 2 (02:46:45):
And he never want. My name is Robin Rowan.

Speaker 42 (02:46:47):
I'm from me with your Mississippi and I also attend
sell University of Agriports and of College. Yeah, being from Mississippi,
I hail from. I am a CBC of Internet and
represented many times of difference, which is Mississippi Coggression.

Speaker 2 (02:47:00):
Dudent is one of the.

Speaker 7 (02:47:01):
Poorest congression dutricts inside of the United States.

Speaker 42 (02:47:04):
We have a bunch of residents who all on Medicaid
and medicare as a student who attends at HDCU, as
a student who receives a pilgrim, as a student who
is a part of the United States Army and who
just hit five years servant, chooses to serve in a
country that he believes in. A bunch of black veneries
will be effective five this year.

Speaker 10 (02:47:23):
It's field but.

Speaker 42 (02:47:24):
Not required to take fifteen credit hours to receive full paragrams.
We know a bunch of students cannot take fifteen credit
hours because they have to take care of their auntie,
their grandmother, their mothers, their fathers. For publicness lost all
human decenses, all human decency in all factors.

Speaker 72 (02:47:43):
Asking right for Families USA, will treat yourself illess?

Speaker 59 (02:47:49):
Yeah, no, thank you, thank you. I am so privileged
to be a great young emergenciers as well of those
that's amazing, give them a fond as well those with
the heroes from the conventional backpropas or earlier folks.

Speaker 30 (02:48:04):
That I have looked up to for my career.

Speaker 7 (02:48:05):
My name is Anthony Right.

Speaker 59 (02:48:06):
I'm the executive director of Families USA, the longtime national
healthcare consumer advocacy organization originally from the Bronx, New York. Yeah,
and I'm but but I'll I will tell you tell
my own story. I'll tell the Family's USA story of
working for over forty years on the cause of trying
to get everybody the access to the care and covers

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that they need, whether it's through this, through Medicaid, the
Child Health Insurance Program, and yes, the seminal righteous fight
for the Affordable Care Act and that and that is
a little bit of what we're fighting about now because
the bill that we're talking about, the big that betrayal
of a bill is a is a bill that would

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undo health coverage more than any other any other bill
or piece of legislation.

Speaker 2 (02:48:55):
And the history of the country.

Speaker 59 (02:48:57):
It is I but if the Affordable Care Act is
the biggest step forward Medicaid, Medicare Act, and the Apportable
Care Act, this is the biggest withdrawal of coverage. And
so while here I'm here to support our good friends
from the Congression of both Black Caucus and other representatives
who are voting no on this bill because of the
harm it will do to coverage, the costs, the care

(02:49:20):
and the community. In terms of coverage, seventeen million Americans
will be pushed or priced out of coverage, both public
and private coverage, both Medicaid and marketplace, from things like
additional paperwork burdens we apply every year to work reporting requirements,

(02:49:41):
just the.

Speaker 10 (02:49:42):
Increase in costs of coverage.

Speaker 59 (02:49:44):
The increased costs will be felt by millions more, whether
it's increased premiums that people will start to face this fall,
to increase cost sharing for people on Medicaid, to increase
premiums because there's more people fall off this coverage than
the rest of the people are in a smaller and
scar pool, which means premiums go up and then the
atains the clut and care, which there is the direct

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attacks on cuts on the way that states financed their
Medicaid programs things it's called provider taxes or state directed payments,
because that means less money for the hospital or the
clinics near you, and especially for those places where Medicaid
is the number one budget line item, the primary payer,
nursing homes, maternity wards, and rural hospitals. But particular and

(02:50:28):
then finally community, this bill specifically attacks certain communities. Whether
there's women and their reproductive health, of the defunding planned parents,
whether it's specific legal immigrants when.

Speaker 66 (02:50:37):
He acted US style creatures that are specifically targeted.

Speaker 59 (02:50:41):
These bills, and it's been several when you cut one
of the proposed One of those studies my organization did
was that a you is that the comparison of states
that expanded Medicaid states that didn't that actually has a
huge impact on maternal mortality for everybody, but especially for
communities of color. And so this bill has dramatic, cascading

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effects not just on the people who will lose their coverage,
not people, not just the people.

Speaker 10 (02:51:06):
Will see their coverage their cost.

Speaker 59 (02:51:08):
Rise, but not just everybody who medicated all eighty million Americans,
but on literally everybody and the healthcare system that we
all depend on. And that's why it's so essential that
four Republican members see the light and vote no tonight.
And if they don't, then we need to make sure
that every time those consequences happen over the next few months,

(02:51:31):
the next few years, they recognize that it's because of
this vote that people lost their coverage, people saw their
cost rise, people saw their services goal back, and even
some key institutions like hospitals that clud explodes. So please vote, know,
fellow everybody in there, thank you very much.

Speaker 10 (02:51:51):
Yeah, we're gonna hear from one more young person.

Speaker 15 (02:51:56):
Youth and you brother mentioned third of Marshall's birthday.

Speaker 72 (02:51:59):
This is the organization that he lived, the Legal Defense Fund,
to meet him, to play and give her around the world.

Speaker 65 (02:52:06):
I am so honored to eat here with these young
people give him up, giving him a yes, gospicious that
we are here on Thurk and Marshall's birthday. I am
to meet your McCain, director of policy at the Legal
Defense Fund. We are a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization. Okay, we
are the premiere racial justice legal organization in this country.

Speaker 64 (02:52:31):
Started by Thurton Marshall.

Speaker 3 (02:52:33):
Eighty five years ago this year.

Speaker 65 (02:52:37):
And so what we do help, yeah, is that we
fight for the humanity and the dignity of black communities.

Speaker 10 (02:52:44):
Now, let me tell you something.

Speaker 65 (02:52:46):
This bill is not about the humanity or dignity of
black communities or other communities as far as I'm concerned.

Speaker 15 (02:52:54):
And let me just tell you a little bit about
what we do.

Speaker 64 (02:52:57):
A lot of our work is in the South.

Speaker 65 (02:52:59):
We do a lot of work in South glad to
your people are from Louisiana, Mississippi. And in this work
that we do, either dupreication research, organizing policy advocacy, we meet.

Speaker 16 (02:53:09):
A lot of people.

Speaker 65 (02:53:11):
One of the things that we're working on right now
has to do with water equities, right, food, shelter, water,
These are the basics. We're not talking about thriving, We're
just talking about surviving. And so we're working with families,
elderly families in the South, right, families with disabilities in
the South, families with children in the South.

Speaker 16 (02:53:30):
Who do not have clean water, or the bills.

Speaker 10 (02:53:33):
Are so high that they can't keep the roof over
their heads.

Speaker 64 (02:53:37):
Because we all know what that the rent is to
what damn high.

Speaker 65 (02:53:42):
So we're talking about survival issues here, Okay, we're talking
about health. We're talking about taking food out of these
grandparents who are on Medicare and Medicaid, who need the
snap to take care of the grandchild who's at the
Title one school.

Speaker 15 (02:53:55):
My children were in the Title one school.

Speaker 65 (02:53:57):
And let me tell you something, every Friday and our
i'ms with line up to bring boxes of food, and
those families.

Speaker 10 (02:54:03):
Were in line.

Speaker 65 (02:54:04):
But guess what, there are not enough churches in nonprofits
to get us out of this at this moment. Okay,
So this bill, I've spent all morning Holliday walking up
and down Raver Building, the Cannon Building, as well as
long work trying to defence people to vote no because
this bill is not about humidity and dignity.

Speaker 16 (02:54:25):
So what can you do?

Speaker 5 (02:54:26):
You can call two to oh two two two four
three one two one and say.

Speaker 10 (02:54:31):
Vote no, oh.

Speaker 35 (02:54:34):
Matre McCain, and they'll give her around with the clause.
We get all these young people around with applause.

Speaker 72 (02:54:39):
We've got one more speaker here from when with black men?
How is this affecting black men?

Speaker 2 (02:54:46):
Not something?

Speaker 72 (02:54:46):
This is the thirtieth anniversary of the million man mark,
and it seems as though we've gone back was our
brother Khalil will talk to us about how this legislation
affects black men, Kahlil Thomas and give him around the law.

Speaker 2 (02:54:59):
Thank you for remark.

Speaker 29 (02:55:01):
I am honored to be in such a schemed audience here.

Speaker 61 (02:55:04):
I'm young at heart with a few great hairs, O
my mad but no excited to be here with.

Speaker 2 (02:55:08):
You all here this evening.

Speaker 61 (02:55:09):
I have an amazing eight year old CEO who is home,
hopefully almost on her way to speak. But I am
worried about what her future is going to Not only
does she have less rights than her mother had today,
not only does she is she concerned about her classmates,
whether or not Ice is going to come into her
school or take away her teachers or anyone.

Speaker 52 (02:55:29):
That she may know.

Speaker 61 (02:55:31):
But every single day, and this bill is an encapsulation
above that worried about that the America that she wants
to live in is no longer going to be that
one of dreams that she can achieve. And so eyes
her dad want to make sure that we can fight
every single day. So that's why we have been with
black men and partnering other organizations and young leaders that
are here today and our CBC members a nonpartisan way

(02:55:51):
are coming out and saying you have to do every.

Speaker 7 (02:55:53):
Single thing that we can.

Speaker 61 (02:55:54):
We've been citing a study that came out in twenty
thirteen that says seventies percent of Black fathers participate facing
our child's lives, either in changing diaper, bathing, or feeding
on a daily basis while they may not live in
the home.

Speaker 29 (02:56:06):
That debunks the myth that they're.

Speaker 61 (02:56:07):
Not a part of their child life in a daily
consistent basis. Two point five million of them, as opposed
to one point seven million of them are actively participating
in an after school activity.

Speaker 29 (02:56:18):
And so we want to make sure.

Speaker 61 (02:56:20):
That brothers know that this isn't just about amorphous issue
that you're hearing about a bill in DC that's going
to vote.

Speaker 29 (02:56:27):
This is going to impact your lives. This investment in
our community, all of.

Speaker 61 (02:56:31):
The things that we've talked about so more, whether it's
head Start, whether it's staff benefits, whether it's tel grants
that's an investment in our communities or the long term,
this bill is a disinvestment.

Speaker 73 (02:56:41):
And taking away from our communities.

Speaker 20 (02:56:43):
And so we want to make sure that you know
that there are four.

Speaker 61 (02:56:46):
Or five members of conferences that we are actively trying
to make sure they hear our.

Speaker 73 (02:56:50):
Voices that they vote know on this bill.

Speaker 61 (02:56:52):
We know we have a majority of Democrats and those
that believe in the ideals that we believe in our community.

Speaker 29 (02:56:58):
They are going to vote know on this bill.

Speaker 61 (02:57:00):
We need to make sure that we press harder over
the next twenty four hours. We know members are not
leaving tonight, so we know they're staying. We know they
were out here with us earlier. They're going back to
do the work. We want to continue to put that
pressure on. I have two parents who are young at heart,
but their knees creaked like me when they get up
these days, and so I want to make sure.

Speaker 29 (02:57:19):
That they have the benefits that are available to them.

Speaker 61 (02:57:21):
I have a brother and a sister who want to
make sure it's just like me and for every single family,
that they can have access to affordable healthcare. And so
this fight isn't just for us or just for our communities.
I think many of us that are either watching this
online or hearing us right now.

Speaker 20 (02:57:36):
This isn't just a black or brown issue.

Speaker 61 (02:57:38):
This is an American issue. We need you to understand
that this disinvestment is going to drastically hurt all Americans,
not just black and brown Americans, not just black men,
not just black sisters, not just our brown sisters, brown
brothers and sisters. This is going to hurt America as
a large disinvestment. So I'm excited that we got this together.

Speaker 15 (02:57:59):
In an hour and a half this afternoon and pulled
this off.

Speaker 29 (02:58:02):
But we're gonna continue this fight.

Speaker 82 (02:58:04):
I know our fellow brother and and sisters, my big
sister ends Larry over at State of the People and
others who've been leading.

Speaker 29 (02:58:10):
The marathon that is still.

Speaker 39 (02:58:11):
Going on right now.

Speaker 29 (02:58:12):
I think they're they're talking, they're.

Speaker 61 (02:58:14):
Making calls tom over at the NAACP. They did a
power hour earlier this afternoon, I think around three o'clock,
and I had two hundred and fifty volunteers on the
line making phone calls, and other organizations just as well
at leading this fight.

Speaker 82 (02:58:27):
So I'm excited for what this is going to be.
I hope he won't be disappointed at the end. But
we just got to convince four people to vote.

Speaker 10 (02:58:34):
Know, yeah, right, time's a real black man. And to
close it's out.

Speaker 72 (02:58:41):
Exegu Director of the CDC is gonna come and give
us a state of play where things.

Speaker 29 (02:58:46):
Are right now, where we are on the process.

Speaker 72 (02:58:47):
Let's convince having around of the blows he's ever been
called hard work then he does, pulling us together and
telling us what to do and.

Speaker 9 (02:58:55):
All of that, y'all'll give it up for that congressional
black call and the jail.

Speaker 79 (02:59:00):
And then feeling that Clark is still on the wall,
she's literally getting on the won.

Speaker 10 (02:59:07):
So I just want to say on behalf of our
sixty two members of the CBC. Earlier this week we.

Speaker 79 (02:59:13):
Saw the CBC members of the Senate, for four of them,
two bad brothers and two bad sisters.

Speaker 20 (02:59:20):
They held the line.

Speaker 79 (02:59:21):
That's give it up for them, and now the fifty
seven members are going to fight until as long as
this fight lasts. So just so we know as we
close out, you know, the vote in the House to
move to what they call the rule has been open
for hours hours. As we sit here right now, we

(02:59:42):
are about twenty four minutes out from this vote being open,
being the longest open vote in the history of the House.

Speaker 40 (02:59:52):
And that's because of the pressure that y'all are wide.

Speaker 10 (02:59:56):
They can't get the vote.

Speaker 79 (02:59:57):
The vote is still open, and so we don't care
to stay open for another couple of days.

Speaker 2 (03:00:03):
Keep it open.

Speaker 79 (03:00:04):
The House Freedom cankers are just announced they don't want
to vote tonight. That's because of the pressure of you,
the young people, these members, So we don't as Khalil said, No,
what we know right now is the dome light is on.
The people of ill Will are inside the building trying

(03:00:26):
to make this the biggest cut.

Speaker 10 (03:00:28):
To snap in the history of the country.

Speaker 79 (03:00:30):
We know that the people of ill Will are inside
the building trying to make this the largest cut to
medicaid in the history of the country. We know that
the ill Will people are inside of the building trying
to make this the largest transfer of wealth in the
history of the country.

Speaker 2 (03:00:49):
We know the people of ill Will.

Speaker 79 (03:00:50):
Are inside the building trying to add four toillion dollars
to the debt.

Speaker 2 (03:00:54):
And the people of good Will are like.

Speaker 79 (03:00:58):
In that cart, sitting on the The people of Goodwill,
like doctor Davis, are sitting here on the wall. We
know the people of gutwill, like the cbc F interns,
are sitting on the wall. The people of Goodwill, like
helldf are sitting here on the wall.

Speaker 2 (03:01:15):
The people of Goodwill, not.

Speaker 77 (03:01:17):
God friends from protecting Medicaid are sitting on the wall,
and we will sit on this wall for the next hour,
the next two, three, four, five, six hours, so long.

Speaker 2 (03:01:28):
As we have to, because this fight is important.

Speaker 79 (03:01:31):
There are people who are literally tonight around the country
counting on the people that are here.

Speaker 64 (03:01:38):
So y'all stay up, go home, get your risk, don't.

Speaker 10 (03:01:42):
Go to sleep.

Speaker 79 (03:01:43):
As I have said in recent weeks, black people in
America need to sleep in shifts. When if that Clark
is sleep, car Ed is up when I'm sleep and
that Clark is.

Speaker 10 (03:01:57):
Up because the people of ill will they to number sleep.

Speaker 79 (03:02:02):
So the people of good will have got to be
off sleeping in shifts and making sure that we got
each other's back. Y'all stay with us, the Congressional Black
Cautus will continue to fight.

Speaker 63 (03:02:14):
Madam Chair, come on up here the system from Brooklyn
and take off home Brooklyn.

Speaker 36 (03:02:23):
Let me h thank all of the press that has
come out tonight. We wanted to continue what we started
early this morning. We knew that it was important that
our people see us out here fighting, fighting, and this
fight will be on a continuum because, as my Ed

(03:02:47):
has said, when we're asleep, they're up working, and we
can't sleep until we get the victory. And so tonight
is just the beginning or the content of the struggle
that we have had as a people to make sure
that we liberate, lift up, and move our people forward.

Speaker 7 (03:03:10):
This wealth transfer will only last.

Speaker 36 (03:03:14):
As long as we allow it. So let us get
our game face on. Let us be clear. As Auntie
Maxine said, we got these streets, let us get out here,
Let's educate, let's inform, and let's make sure that in
the midterm election these people remember just what they did

(03:03:37):
to people of goodwill. God bless you, and I keep
you young people, y'all making it happen.

Speaker 5 (03:03:43):
I'm so proud of you, and we will defind you.

Speaker 16 (03:03:47):
This is a movement, not a moment.

Speaker 91 (03:03:57):
Folks, This capital cogression of black caucas called this.

Speaker 2 (03:04:06):
You should be able to hear me, Yeah, you should
be able to hear me. Guys, Yeah, you'd be able
to hear me. I got my meet us, Thank you
very much.

Speaker 11 (03:04:13):
All right.

Speaker 2 (03:04:13):
So again, so the correction of black Cauker.

Speaker 1 (03:04:15):
That's concluded of this emergency rally here at the United
States Capital. As we said, since Rebersent, Lawn Underwood told
us the Republicans have held the vote open since one thirty.
Right now it is nine to ten, but going on
eight hours holding this vote early, they do not have
the votes necessary, as it says, as the CBC said,
well then you know were four Republicans. Now understand, the

(03:04:37):
House passed the bill that went to the Senate. The
Senate passed their own bill, and so what this vote is,
this vote is on the Senate bill. So if this
vote fails, that means that the House then may have
to do is to make their own adjustments, pass another bill.
If that bill different from the Senate has to go
back to the Senate, and then they if they don't

(03:04:59):
change House built.

Speaker 2 (03:05:00):
In vote, then it moves forward.

Speaker 1 (03:05:03):
But and what Republicans are doing are using the reconciliation process.
The reconciliation process is a very specific process.

Speaker 2 (03:05:10):
That's how the Public Care Act was passed.

Speaker 1 (03:05:12):
This requires not sixty votes in the Senate, but fifty
one votes, a simple majority. And so that's why the
Senate parliamentarian ruled against a number of provisions in the
bill because he did not comply with the reconciliation process.
So that's what's going on right now. And so Democrats
are trying to put as much pressure on those thirty

(03:05:32):
five vulnerable Republicans who are going to be in competitive
seats in twenty and twenty six. You have these budget
debt hawks on the House of the Freedom of Caucus.
They actually don't like the Senate bill because they say
it's not tough enough. And so this bat is going
on the negotiations speaking Mike Johnson, Donald Trump at the
events to trying to get these Republicans in line they

(03:05:55):
cannot afford. Right now, there are two hard core Republicans
on the House who's that they will not vote for
the Citate bill. So that means they really need two
more votes to scuttle this particular bill. And so we're
going to continue this coverage. We'll see if they stick
around tomorrow. If they stick around, a lot of them
want to go back home from July fourth, and so
we'll be covering this. We'll be live tomorrow rolland Martin Nfiltered.

(03:06:18):
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