February 9, 2023 • 24 mins
Following President Joe Biden's State of The Union speech, Vice-President Kamala Harris stopped by to discuss accountability, January 6th, choke holds, the right to feel safe and more.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hi, everybody. As promise, we have a very very special
guest this morning on the Steve Harvey Morning Show. It
is a person that when they were running for office.
I actually told her, I said, the next time I
talk to you, you will be the vice President of
the United States. She said, to God's well, God was listening.
(00:23):
She is here. This is a very very special guest
about today. She happens to be the forty ninth Vice
President of the United States. She is the first female
vice president and the highest ranking female official in United
States history. And today on such a special day for
me and all of us here because for the first
time I'm sitting across from the Vice President and I'm
(00:43):
so honored to have this special conversation with her. So
let's get to it, ladies, and gener know Steve Harvey
Morning Show, the one and only the Vice President of
the United States. Kamala Harris. Oh, it is so good
to be here, madam Vice President. How you doing it?
I am very well, that's Harvey. How you doing It's
been two years? Has it sunk in yet? You know?
(01:05):
It is always at some point every day that it
is always something new about it that is really phenomenal.
You know, just as I landed in Atlanta, we had
a whole just dozens and dozens of school children who
greeted me well. And they were there with their bright faces,
(01:30):
and they were not average as somewhere between eight and
twelve years old, and they watched the plane land and
then they were there, and I walked over across the
tarmac to meet with them and to see it through
their eyes, and for them to see someone that looks
like them, that gives them a sense of who they are,
or reconfirms for them who they are, that never gets old,
(01:54):
that never gets old. Could you let me ask you
this way, you were running for vice president with President life, Yes,
you finally get the position. Is there any way you
could have imagined what all it was, what it entailed?
Is there any way to know that? There are some
(02:14):
things you just don't know until you do it? True?
There it just there are there's there are things that
you will but that will prepare you. Life will prepare you,
experiences will prepare you. But to be vice president of
the United States, especially coming into office after a pandemic
that the world has never seen, to come into office
(02:37):
after the economic hardship that resulted from that and to
get to work on day one in a time where
people were losing loved ones and losing hope is an
experience I don't think anyone could be prepared for. But
you rise to the experience. You know what that's like.
The leaders among your audience know what that's like. You
do what you gotta do. A parent knows this. Every day.
(02:58):
You just do what you have to do. It may
not be a manual for it, but there's no question
that you need to get the work done. Wow. The
only thing I got to compare to that is marriage.
What I just didn't quite know what to expect walking
in kind of walk in and what no manual for it?
(03:19):
Next thing? You know, it just gotta get the job done.
That's what it is. You know. Whatever I interview, well
I can't say people like this because there's only one.
But whenever I had these interviews, you know, I try
to talk personally to people, you know, because you know,
I think it's good when people get to hear the
personal side of a person, you know, kind of what
(03:40):
they think about different things and stuff like that. And
it kind of remembered it was like, Uh, at the
President Biden's State of the Union address. Yes, you know,
I gotta tell you, Uh, that's that's the one I
was waiting on. That was the one I was particularly
waiting on, and I was sitting there watching it. I
kind of want to talk about that, because he first
(04:03):
of all, what was your take? Give me your personal
take us a person sitting back there, what do you
think of his Other thought it was outstanding because he
was in command. He spoke the voice of the people
who have never been in that room, but who should
be the priority of the people in that room. He
talked about working people. He talked about the dignity of work.
(04:25):
He talked about the creation of jobs, many of which
will not require a college degree, but will require the
kind of training and skills that we know all people
bring to their work. He talked about the fact that
we need to pay public school teachers more and value
what they do and the gift they give society. I
thought he was outstanding, and I thought that he also was,
(04:47):
in so many ways in command of the moment, because,
in spite of the theatrics that popped up from time
to time during the evening, he stayed focused. He was
clear why he was there. He was there to speak
to the American people in their living rooms through that
TV and talk with them about what he acknowledged, which is,
you know, folks have gone through pain. Some folks are
(05:09):
still really hurting, and so the job is not done.
We have more to do when we're gonna keep doing it,
he talked about, I mean, look at the issue of diabetes.
For example, I'll raise my hand, as do most people
I know if you have or you know someone in
your family who has diabetes. Black folks people of color
are much more likely to be diagnosed with diabetes. And
(05:30):
for our seniors, how many of them have been faced
with the awful false choice of either they're gonna pay
their rent or pay for the food they need, or
fill their prescription for the insolent a doctor said they
should take. Well, now we've kepped the cost of visens
when for our seniors at thirty five dollars a month,
(05:51):
that's important. And to talk with the people about, as
he did, the right that people have to expect certain
from their government. And then they stood in those lines
in twenty twenty and said this is what I want,
and they voted. In places like Georgia and some other
places that have been making it more difficult for people
to vote. But they stood in line, they voted, and
(06:14):
they got that. And he delivered not only on the promise,
but he delivered on the importance of meeting the people's demands.
You know, we go get into some more this because
there was several points and when I was listening to
the State of Union Address that I really will I
want to ask somebody point blank about some specifically. We'll
be back everybody. We just here with our special guests
(06:36):
this morning. The Vice President of the United States, Vice
President Kamala Harris, will be right back more Steve Hard
Morning Show right after this. You're listening, all right, everybody,
We're back in our special guests this morning is our
Vice President of the United States, our forty ninth vice president,
the one and only Vice President, Kamala Harris, and we're
(06:57):
talking about the State of the Union address. I was
compliment her about President Biden's whole persona that he had
the night on that even I was asking her take
on it, he pointed out something in the thing. He
said that you were very important some of his causes
with small business. Tell us a little bit about it. Yes,
as you know, Steve I was born in Oakland, California.
(07:18):
I was raised my sister and I buy our mother
who worked long days and weekends, and then two doors down,
our second mother was Miss Shelton, who was part of
that whole exodus of black folks from the South who
went to California. So she was from Louisiana. Her husband
was from Arkansas. And Miss Shelton was a small business owner.
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She owned the nursery school where we lived on top of.
We lived on top of the nursery school in the apartment.
That's where we grew up, and she was the second
mother to us. When my mother worked late. We walked
two doors down and grew up there as much as
we did at home. And Miss Shelton was not only
was she a business owner and a leader in that way,
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she was a civic leader. She was a community leader.
She would hire from the community, she would mentor and train,
she would console the local mothers. And when I think
about who our small business owners are, and I've been
traveling in the country meeting with them for years, that's
who they are. They're the ones who will man or
(08:23):
woman who will be the ones who sponsor the local
softball league, who will mentor the young people in the
community who are part of the civic and the cultural fabric,
not to mention the economic fabric of the community. And
as it turns out, half of America's workforce works for
a small business or owns a small business, so you're
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also talking about a lot of people. So the work
that I've been doing, I did it when I was
in the Senate and now as Vice President, has been
to increase access to capital for small business owners because
we have so many people in the community who have
a good idea, but they don't necessarily have access to
the capital to start or grow a small business. I
can't tell you the number of small business owners who
(09:06):
told me when they first went to a big bank
with their idea, they were they heard a word they'd
never heard before. They were told they were unbankable. But
then they went to the community bank led by community
leaders who know the community, who know what the community
wants and needs. And so that is the work I've
been doing, which is bringing money, billions of dollars through
(09:28):
our administration to the community banks. I've been encouraging the
private sector, so Google and some of the big banks
to also put capital investment into the community banks, who
then give that money into the community to our small
businesses and also helped them with financial literacy. Everybody, just
sit tight. We'll be right back. We're talking with the
Vice President United States Vice President Kamala Harrison. We'll be
(09:52):
right back with more on the Steve Harvard Mourner Show.
You're listening to everybody, We're back in our special guests
this morning is the forty ninth Vice President of the
United States, first female vice president of the United States.
It's the one and only Vice President, Kamala Harris. So
here's the things we have made a commitment President Biden
(10:14):
and our administration. We're going to increase by fifty percent
the number of federal contracts that go to minority owned businesses,
so you see the math on that. Then let's put
more resources into the community banks, create more access to
capital for people in the community. Also, knowing that we're
going to be putting more money into manufacturing, construction, the
(10:37):
kinds of businesses that will get the job done of
building back up by infrastructure. So let's create that ecosystem
where everyone has equal opportunity right to thrive economically. Yeah,
I think that's excellent. You know, I'm going to ask
you two more questions. Okay. The last question is a
personal question, okay, But this question right here is about
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a part of last night. You know, this country after
the last administration, to me, became more divided than ever
before because I just I just saw something in this
country I've never seen. I'm sixty six years old. I've
seen it. I've seen it and so and I've always
been a voter, so I've watched it go down. America
has always been known as one of the powers of
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and even in the soft industries like sports and and
and movies and TV and and all of this brand's education.
But it's kind of taken a hit lately with the
with the gun violence, with the racial violence, with the
January sixth incident. What does it look hopeful from you
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guys side up there, administration? How do we work with
the other side. I just hate it when I see
one side standing up clapping in the other side sitting
there on their hands. But then for a whole group
of people, it makes no damn since at all. I'm
stunned about that. How are you all trying to get
through this? Because I know President Biden has talked about
(12:03):
it a lot, reaching across the albert No. I mean, look,
there is no denying. We look at what happened January sixth,
right before we were inaugurated, the election that happened we
were inaugurated January twenty. January sixth, they stormed the capitol.
People stormed the capital, and so called leaders who are
in a position to say that this is an attack
(12:24):
on our democracy and our democratic institutions remained silent. But
at first, but I don't want to cut you up.
At first they were appalled. Oh they were Oh McConnell
and Mitch and boys was in there having a fit
about this all that this is it. I can't take
it no more. They're gonna have to go down now
all of a sudden. And they were just protested. I
(12:45):
don't understand. Let's talk about what we do. Understand what
we do now. We do know that this is not
the first time in the history of our country where
we have seen people who resist and fight against the
ideals of our country. Right We're are a nation that
was founded on principles that are about freedom, about liberty,
about equality, and about justice. But we've not always had that.
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We are still very much a work in progress as
a nation, and sometimes we take steps forward and then
there are times we take a step back. January sixth
was a step back. People who deny a fair and
free election, Well that's backward, but the nation has not
gone backward as a whole. And I point to just
(13:30):
most recently what happened in the midterms. We're here in Georgia.
Reverend Raphael Warnock was elected a United States Senator from
the state of Georgia, together with John Ausof, a black
man and a Jewish man from the state of Georgia.
You look at what we did in terms of electing.
There were I think eleven candidates for Secretary of State
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around the country. Those are the people, by the way,
that run elections, and eleven of them were denying election deniers,
denying the court proven the right because it was challenging
court election of who would be president vice president United States.
People were not down for the crazy right right right,
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And that's where we have to look at who we
are as a nation. We will not be immune from
those who will attempt to weaken us from inside. I
think the most important thing is that the majority of
us stand up and fight for who we are as
a nation. Here's how I think about democracy. On the
one hand, democracies are strong, meaning that when they are intact,
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it protects and uplifts people's rights, civil rights, human rights,
justice and equality. That's the strength. We'll be right back.
We're talking with the Vice President United States Vice President
Kamala Harrison. We'll be right back with more of the
Steve Harvet Morning Show. You're listening to right everybody, We're back,
(14:57):
and our special guest this morning is a vice PRESI Madame,
Vice President Kamala Harris, you're the Vice President. I hear
all the news stories and everything. What would you want
America to know about you that they may not know
or they may not be able to see through with
all of the clutter and all of the politics. If
(15:19):
you could explain yourself to them your feelings, Well, what
would you say to them? For the people who don't,
who don't who don't really know you? You know, I
I really do believe and of deep faith and the
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goodness of people and in their capacity God given capacity
that when given the opportunity, they will jump so high
and not only survive, but thrive. That's what motivates my work.
And that's what motivates me. I have been the beneficiary
(16:02):
of that. I stand on so many broad shoulders of
people who believed in me. This little girl was born
a Kaisa hospital in Oakland, California, and who believed in
me and convinced me that I could be and am somebody.
And what drives me is, I know human potential that
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when we have a society that invests in their children
and their people that kind of understanding and belief, we
will we will do really well. We will thrive, we
will survive, not just survive, we will thrive. And that's
what motivates me. That's truly what motivates me. So you know,
there's all the stuff that could happen on a daily basis.
(16:48):
But you know, I eat no for breakfast. I don't
hear no. I don't hear no. If I if I
heard no, I would have never gotten out of bed
this morning or any day. I don't hear that. Wow,
that's amazing, man. You know. One of the things when
the President was talking and they stood up Tyree's parents,
(17:11):
you know, and everybody clapped for them. You know, look,
I've said it on this show. I know my brothers
have said it on their shows. Policemen are good people.
The average person comes to work and they are good people,
men and women who signed up to do the job
the way it's supposed to be done. And I really
(17:33):
believe that. But there's some bad apples in every bushel,
and we got some, and we got to start doing
something so we can make communities feel better about them.
Me personally, I believe that the only way to do
this is you have mandatory censusing. If I kill a
person Steve Harp, who didn't have a gun, who was
(17:56):
running or sitting in his car, If I kill this person,
that's nothing I canna saying. That gets me free. What
is it about the other side that will not allow
them to see that on behalf of all of the victims, Well,
let me tell you. I mean attended Tyree nichols funeral.
(18:16):
And to your point about the fairness of it all
and the unfairness of it all, part of the point
that motivates me on this problem is what I said there.
If you want to talk about public safety, did not
Tyree Nichols have the right to be safe as he
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drove a car or walked down the street or for
so many of our young men and women, whether they're
in their apartment playing a video game or just walking
home from schoolcar and a backpack, have they not the
right to be free of someone approaching them and with
a gun raise telling them to drop to their knees
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and put their hand behind their back if they've done
nothing wrong. And so we should start all people, all
thinking people, all good people, should start with certain principles,
and one of them should be that all people have
the right to be safe, including from the people who
were sworn to protect them. And you know, there's work
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to be done. Are we have through executive order the
President has signed through executive order what we have the
capacity to do around federal law enforcement, so on the
issue of chokeholds for example, no knock warrants for example.
But the reality is that so much of law enforcement
is under the state rules and local rule. And you know,
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I was an original author of the George Floodjustice and
Policing Act when I was in the Senate. I feel
very strongly that to your point, there needs to be
accountability forever everybody. You know, as you know, in my
career as a prosecutor, we would talk about accountability all
the time. But it's interesting because in the criminal justice system,
(20:08):
usually when people talk about accountability is it is about
the accountability an individual has, which is absolutely right. But
what about the accountability the system should have? Yes to
the community, right, and what about then holding the system
accountable when it it allows injustice to occur? And that's
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your point, and I and I think all good people
again to your point, should agree. Everybody should be held accountable,
including the system and those who act within the system
with the authority given to them by us, meaning all
the people, right, exactly, Well, Madam President. Well then I
(20:53):
slip up and say, Madam President, Hey, but she called
me is Vice President? My bad? Probably just a whope,
you know, but it is, Madame Vice President. Thank you
so much for joining us this morning. Thank you for
taking out the time to stop buying visitors here on
the Steve Harvey Morning Show. We're huge fans of yours.
We always have been. We pushed people to the polls
(21:15):
on this show. Yes, we are directly responsible for our
soft and warn up and we got him again over herschel.
We wasn't gonna let that happen. Now, you stay out
this conversation, but we wasn't about to let Herschel walk out.
We don't let a lot of stuff happen. What you're
nothing to do is putting him what you see, you
don't play politics with us down here. And I did
(21:38):
a study it that was a study of in the reelection,
the runoff election, the percentage of people that went back
to the polls. Native Americans was the same amount, Asians
were the same amount. Latinos had a slight point two
percent drop off, quite dropped off going back to the
polls almost a whole percentage point to a point and
(21:58):
a half. Blacks went from the polls from twenty seven
percent to thirty one percent of the book because we
went to the post because we're not having that, not Herschel. Now,
you do a lot of stuff to us you're not
fit to do. We get it. All these ignorant stories.
He telling the stuff like this, Okay, she's not talking.
(22:19):
This is me, Steve, the President of sitting there being
very polished and professional. But let me have it. We're
so glad to get Herschel out of here. Okay, just
I mean, put no ignorant person. He was ignorant. You
(22:40):
didn't think it was ignorant. Surely I'm asking you, my
coholt you didn't think Herschel was a little bit ignorant.
I'm glad that we have Senator Raphael Warnock in office
right now, thank you very much. Glad we do, because
if we didn't, we'd have his ignorant ass up here
right now. The two bull was standing at this fence,
jumping cross to walk ahead. The bulls fail in the car,
(23:01):
hiting ma and I don't know what happened. Oh, look
at the time the Vice president has to go matter.
Vice President, you are a complete joy and honor. It's
a pleasure to have known you, to know you, it's
a pleasure to watch you serve as a forty ninth
vice presidents. You mean a lot to so many people. Uh,
(23:21):
this this vice presidency is huge, huge, for so many people.
And the fact that you realize that and recognize that
a special too. So thank you so much, Thank you, absolutely,
thank you exude warmth, elegance, grace, power for black women
everywhere and for women everywhere. We love you and I
know you know that, and thank you for being such
(23:43):
a wonderful representation. Thank you, You're welcome. Thas gentlemen, Vice
President Kamala Harris, you're listening tow
Hi, everybody. As promise, we have a very very special
guest this morning on the Steve Harvey Morning Show. It
is a person that when they were running for office.
I actually told her, I said, the next time I
talk to you, you will be the vice President of
the United States. She said, to God's well, God was listening.
(00:23):
She is here. This is a very very special guest
about today. She happens to be the forty ninth Vice
President of the United States. She is the first female
vice president and the highest ranking female official in United
States history. And today on such a special day for
me and all of us here because for the first
time I'm sitting across from the Vice President and I'm
(00:43):
so honored to have this special conversation with her. So
let's get to it, ladies, and gener know Steve Harvey
Morning Show, the one and only the Vice President of
the United States. Kamala Harris. Oh, it is so good
to be here, madam Vice President. How you doing it?
I am very well, that's Harvey. How you doing It's
been two years? Has it sunk in yet? You know?
(01:05):
It is always at some point every day that it
is always something new about it that is really phenomenal.
You know, just as I landed in Atlanta, we had
a whole just dozens and dozens of school children who
greeted me well. And they were there with their bright faces,
(01:30):
and they were not average as somewhere between eight and
twelve years old, and they watched the plane land and
then they were there, and I walked over across the
tarmac to meet with them and to see it through
their eyes, and for them to see someone that looks
like them, that gives them a sense of who they are,
or reconfirms for them who they are, that never gets old,
(01:54):
that never gets old. Could you let me ask you
this way, you were running for vice president with President life, Yes,
you finally get the position. Is there any way you
could have imagined what all it was, what it entailed?
Is there any way to know that? There are some
(02:14):
things you just don't know until you do it? True?
There it just there are there's there are things that
you will but that will prepare you. Life will prepare you,
experiences will prepare you. But to be vice president of
the United States, especially coming into office after a pandemic
that the world has never seen, to come into office
(02:37):
after the economic hardship that resulted from that and to
get to work on day one in a time where
people were losing loved ones and losing hope is an
experience I don't think anyone could be prepared for. But
you rise to the experience. You know what that's like.
The leaders among your audience know what that's like. You
do what you gotta do. A parent knows this. Every day.
(02:58):
You just do what you have to do. It may
not be a manual for it, but there's no question
that you need to get the work done. Wow. The
only thing I got to compare to that is marriage.
What I just didn't quite know what to expect walking
in kind of walk in and what no manual for it?
(03:19):
Next thing? You know, it just gotta get the job done.
That's what it is. You know. Whatever I interview, well
I can't say people like this because there's only one.
But whenever I had these interviews, you know, I try
to talk personally to people, you know, because you know,
I think it's good when people get to hear the
personal side of a person, you know, kind of what
(03:40):
they think about different things and stuff like that. And
it kind of remembered it was like, Uh, at the
President Biden's State of the Union address. Yes, you know,
I gotta tell you, Uh, that's that's the one I
was waiting on. That was the one I was particularly
waiting on, and I was sitting there watching it. I
kind of want to talk about that, because he first
(04:03):
of all, what was your take? Give me your personal
take us a person sitting back there, what do you
think of his Other thought it was outstanding because he
was in command. He spoke the voice of the people
who have never been in that room, but who should
be the priority of the people in that room. He
talked about working people. He talked about the dignity of work.
(04:25):
He talked about the creation of jobs, many of which
will not require a college degree, but will require the
kind of training and skills that we know all people
bring to their work. He talked about the fact that
we need to pay public school teachers more and value
what they do and the gift they give society. I
thought he was outstanding, and I thought that he also was,
(04:47):
in so many ways in command of the moment, because,
in spite of the theatrics that popped up from time
to time during the evening, he stayed focused. He was
clear why he was there. He was there to speak
to the American people in their living rooms through that
TV and talk with them about what he acknowledged, which is,
you know, folks have gone through pain. Some folks are
(05:09):
still really hurting, and so the job is not done.
We have more to do when we're gonna keep doing it,
he talked about, I mean, look at the issue of diabetes.
For example, I'll raise my hand, as do most people
I know if you have or you know someone in
your family who has diabetes. Black folks people of color
are much more likely to be diagnosed with diabetes. And
(05:30):
for our seniors, how many of them have been faced
with the awful false choice of either they're gonna pay
their rent or pay for the food they need, or
fill their prescription for the insolent a doctor said they
should take. Well, now we've kepped the cost of visens
when for our seniors at thirty five dollars a month,
(05:51):
that's important. And to talk with the people about, as
he did, the right that people have to expect certain
from their government. And then they stood in those lines
in twenty twenty and said this is what I want,
and they voted. In places like Georgia and some other
places that have been making it more difficult for people
to vote. But they stood in line, they voted, and
(06:14):
they got that. And he delivered not only on the promise,
but he delivered on the importance of meeting the people's demands.
You know, we go get into some more this because
there was several points and when I was listening to
the State of Union Address that I really will I
want to ask somebody point blank about some specifically. We'll
be back everybody. We just here with our special guests
(06:36):
this morning. The Vice President of the United States, Vice
President Kamala Harris, will be right back more Steve Hard
Morning Show right after this. You're listening, all right, everybody,
We're back in our special guests this morning is our
Vice President of the United States, our forty ninth vice president,
the one and only Vice President, Kamala Harris, and we're
(06:57):
talking about the State of the Union address. I was
compliment her about President Biden's whole persona that he had
the night on that even I was asking her take
on it, he pointed out something in the thing. He
said that you were very important some of his causes
with small business. Tell us a little bit about it. Yes,
as you know, Steve I was born in Oakland, California.
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I was raised my sister and I buy our mother
who worked long days and weekends, and then two doors down,
our second mother was Miss Shelton, who was part of
that whole exodus of black folks from the South who
went to California. So she was from Louisiana. Her husband
was from Arkansas. And Miss Shelton was a small business owner.
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She owned the nursery school where we lived on top of.
We lived on top of the nursery school in the apartment.
That's where we grew up, and she was the second
mother to us. When my mother worked late. We walked
two doors down and grew up there as much as
we did at home. And Miss Shelton was not only
was she a business owner and a leader in that way,
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she was a civic leader. She was a community leader.
She would hire from the community, she would mentor and train,
she would console the local mothers. And when I think
about who our small business owners are, and I've been
traveling in the country meeting with them for years, that's
who they are. They're the ones who will man or
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woman who will be the ones who sponsor the local
softball league, who will mentor the young people in the
community who are part of the civic and the cultural fabric,
not to mention the economic fabric of the community. And
as it turns out, half of America's workforce works for
a small business or owns a small business, so you're
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also talking about a lot of people. So the work
that I've been doing, I did it when I was
in the Senate and now as Vice President, has been
to increase access to capital for small business owners because
we have so many people in the community who have
a good idea, but they don't necessarily have access to
the capital to start or grow a small business. I
can't tell you the number of small business owners who
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told me when they first went to a big bank
with their idea, they were they heard a word they'd
never heard before. They were told they were unbankable. But
then they went to the community bank led by community
leaders who know the community, who know what the community
wants and needs. And so that is the work I've
been doing, which is bringing money, billions of dollars through
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our administration to the community banks. I've been encouraging the
private sector, so Google and some of the big banks
to also put capital investment into the community banks, who
then give that money into the community to our small
businesses and also helped them with financial literacy. Everybody, just
sit tight. We'll be right back. We're talking with the
Vice President United States Vice President Kamala Harrison. We'll be
(09:52):
right back with more on the Steve Harvard Mourner Show.
You're listening to everybody, We're back in our special guests
this morning is the forty ninth Vice President of the
United States, first female vice president of the United States.
It's the one and only Vice President, Kamala Harris. So
here's the things we have made a commitment President Biden
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and our administration. We're going to increase by fifty percent
the number of federal contracts that go to minority owned businesses,
so you see the math on that. Then let's put
more resources into the community banks, create more access to
capital for people in the community. Also, knowing that we're
going to be putting more money into manufacturing, construction, the
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kinds of businesses that will get the job done of
building back up by infrastructure. So let's create that ecosystem
where everyone has equal opportunity right to thrive economically. Yeah,
I think that's excellent. You know, I'm going to ask
you two more questions. Okay. The last question is a
personal question, okay, But this question right here is about
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a part of last night. You know, this country after
the last administration, to me, became more divided than ever
before because I just I just saw something in this
country I've never seen. I'm sixty six years old. I've
seen it. I've seen it and so and I've always
been a voter, so I've watched it go down. America
has always been known as one of the powers of
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and even in the soft industries like sports and and
and movies and TV and and all of this brand's education.
But it's kind of taken a hit lately with the
with the gun violence, with the racial violence, with the
January sixth incident. What does it look hopeful from you
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guys side up there, administration? How do we work with
the other side. I just hate it when I see
one side standing up clapping in the other side sitting
there on their hands. But then for a whole group
of people, it makes no damn since at all. I'm
stunned about that. How are you all trying to get
through this? Because I know President Biden has talked about
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it a lot, reaching across the albert No. I mean, look,
there is no denying. We look at what happened January sixth,
right before we were inaugurated, the election that happened we
were inaugurated January twenty. January sixth, they stormed the capitol.
People stormed the capital, and so called leaders who are
in a position to say that this is an attack
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on our democracy and our democratic institutions remained silent. But
at first, but I don't want to cut you up.
At first they were appalled. Oh they were Oh McConnell
and Mitch and boys was in there having a fit
about this all that this is it. I can't take
it no more. They're gonna have to go down now
all of a sudden. And they were just protested. I
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don't understand. Let's talk about what we do. Understand what
we do now. We do know that this is not
the first time in the history of our country where
we have seen people who resist and fight against the
ideals of our country. Right We're are a nation that
was founded on principles that are about freedom, about liberty,
about equality, and about justice. But we've not always had that.
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We are still very much a work in progress as
a nation, and sometimes we take steps forward and then
there are times we take a step back. January sixth
was a step back. People who deny a fair and
free election, Well that's backward, but the nation has not
gone backward as a whole. And I point to just
(13:30):
most recently what happened in the midterms. We're here in Georgia.
Reverend Raphael Warnock was elected a United States Senator from
the state of Georgia, together with John Ausof, a black
man and a Jewish man from the state of Georgia.
You look at what we did in terms of electing.
There were I think eleven candidates for Secretary of State
(13:53):
around the country. Those are the people, by the way,
that run elections, and eleven of them were denying election deniers,
denying the court proven the right because it was challenging
court election of who would be president vice president United States.
People were not down for the crazy right right right,
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And that's where we have to look at who we
are as a nation. We will not be immune from
those who will attempt to weaken us from inside. I
think the most important thing is that the majority of
us stand up and fight for who we are as
a nation. Here's how I think about democracy. On the
one hand, democracies are strong, meaning that when they are intact,
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it protects and uplifts people's rights, civil rights, human rights,
justice and equality. That's the strength. We'll be right back.
We're talking with the Vice President United States Vice President
Kamala Harrison. We'll be right back with more of the
Steve Harvet Morning Show. You're listening to right everybody, We're back,
(14:57):
and our special guest this morning is a vice PRESI Madame,
Vice President Kamala Harris, you're the Vice President. I hear
all the news stories and everything. What would you want
America to know about you that they may not know
or they may not be able to see through with
all of the clutter and all of the politics. If
(15:19):
you could explain yourself to them your feelings, Well, what
would you say to them? For the people who don't,
who don't who don't really know you? You know, I
I really do believe and of deep faith and the
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goodness of people and in their capacity God given capacity
that when given the opportunity, they will jump so high
and not only survive, but thrive. That's what motivates my work.
And that's what motivates me. I have been the beneficiary
(16:02):
of that. I stand on so many broad shoulders of
people who believed in me. This little girl was born
a Kaisa hospital in Oakland, California, and who believed in
me and convinced me that I could be and am somebody.
And what drives me is, I know human potential that
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when we have a society that invests in their children
and their people that kind of understanding and belief, we
will we will do really well. We will thrive, we
will survive, not just survive, we will thrive. And that's
what motivates me. That's truly what motivates me. So you know,
there's all the stuff that could happen on a daily basis.
(16:48):
But you know, I eat no for breakfast. I don't
hear no. I don't hear no. If I if I
heard no, I would have never gotten out of bed
this morning or any day. I don't hear that. Wow,
that's amazing, man. You know. One of the things when
the President was talking and they stood up Tyree's parents,
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you know, and everybody clapped for them. You know, look,
I've said it on this show. I know my brothers
have said it on their shows. Policemen are good people.
The average person comes to work and they are good people,
men and women who signed up to do the job
the way it's supposed to be done. And I really
(17:33):
believe that. But there's some bad apples in every bushel,
and we got some, and we got to start doing
something so we can make communities feel better about them.
Me personally, I believe that the only way to do
this is you have mandatory censusing. If I kill a
person Steve Harp, who didn't have a gun, who was
(17:56):
running or sitting in his car, If I kill this person,
that's nothing I canna saying. That gets me free. What
is it about the other side that will not allow
them to see that on behalf of all of the victims, Well,
let me tell you. I mean attended Tyree nichols funeral.
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And to your point about the fairness of it all
and the unfairness of it all, part of the point
that motivates me on this problem is what I said there.
If you want to talk about public safety, did not
Tyree Nichols have the right to be safe as he
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drove a car or walked down the street or for
so many of our young men and women, whether they're
in their apartment playing a video game or just walking
home from schoolcar and a backpack, have they not the
right to be free of someone approaching them and with
a gun raise telling them to drop to their knees
(18:58):
and put their hand behind their back if they've done
nothing wrong. And so we should start all people, all
thinking people, all good people, should start with certain principles,
and one of them should be that all people have
the right to be safe, including from the people who
were sworn to protect them. And you know, there's work
(19:23):
to be done. Are we have through executive order the
President has signed through executive order what we have the
capacity to do around federal law enforcement, so on the
issue of chokeholds for example, no knock warrants for example.
But the reality is that so much of law enforcement
is under the state rules and local rule. And you know,
(19:47):
I was an original author of the George Floodjustice and
Policing Act when I was in the Senate. I feel
very strongly that to your point, there needs to be
accountability forever everybody. You know, as you know, in my
career as a prosecutor, we would talk about accountability all
the time. But it's interesting because in the criminal justice system,
(20:08):
usually when people talk about accountability is it is about
the accountability an individual has, which is absolutely right. But
what about the accountability the system should have? Yes to
the community, right, and what about then holding the system
accountable when it it allows injustice to occur? And that's
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your point, and I and I think all good people
again to your point, should agree. Everybody should be held accountable,
including the system and those who act within the system
with the authority given to them by us, meaning all
the people, right, exactly, Well, Madam President. Well then I
(20:53):
slip up and say, Madam President, Hey, but she called
me is Vice President? My bad? Probably just a whope,
you know, but it is, Madame Vice President. Thank you
so much for joining us this morning. Thank you for
taking out the time to stop buying visitors here on
the Steve Harvey Morning Show. We're huge fans of yours.
We always have been. We pushed people to the polls
(21:15):
on this show. Yes, we are directly responsible for our
soft and warn up and we got him again over herschel.
We wasn't gonna let that happen. Now, you stay out
this conversation, but we wasn't about to let Herschel walk out.
We don't let a lot of stuff happen. What you're
nothing to do is putting him what you see, you
don't play politics with us down here. And I did
(21:38):
a study it that was a study of in the reelection,
the runoff election, the percentage of people that went back
to the polls. Native Americans was the same amount, Asians
were the same amount. Latinos had a slight point two
percent drop off, quite dropped off going back to the
polls almost a whole percentage point to a point and
(21:58):
a half. Blacks went from the polls from twenty seven
percent to thirty one percent of the book because we
went to the post because we're not having that, not Herschel. Now,
you do a lot of stuff to us you're not
fit to do. We get it. All these ignorant stories.
He telling the stuff like this, Okay, she's not talking.
(22:19):
This is me, Steve, the President of sitting there being
very polished and professional. But let me have it. We're
so glad to get Herschel out of here. Okay, just
I mean, put no ignorant person. He was ignorant. You
(22:40):
didn't think it was ignorant. Surely I'm asking you, my
coholt you didn't think Herschel was a little bit ignorant.
I'm glad that we have Senator Raphael Warnock in office
right now, thank you very much. Glad we do, because
if we didn't, we'd have his ignorant ass up here
right now. The two bull was standing at this fence,
jumping cross to walk ahead. The bulls fail in the car,
(23:01):
hiting ma and I don't know what happened. Oh, look
at the time the Vice president has to go matter.
Vice President, you are a complete joy and honor. It's
a pleasure to have known you, to know you, it's
a pleasure to watch you serve as a forty ninth
vice presidents. You mean a lot to so many people. Uh,
(23:21):
this this vice presidency is huge, huge, for so many people.
And the fact that you realize that and recognize that
a special too. So thank you so much, Thank you, absolutely,
thank you exude warmth, elegance, grace, power for black women
everywhere and for women everywhere. We love you and I
know you know that, and thank you for being such
(23:43):
a wonderful representation. Thank you, You're welcome. Thas gentlemen, Vice
President Kamala Harris, you're listening tow
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