February 21, 2025 • 38 mins
The Breakfast Club Sits Down With Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett To Discuss Trump Administration, Elon Musk,USAID, Nancy Mace 'Chile,' Dems. Listen For More!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Wake that ass up in the morning. The Breakfast Club Morning.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Everybody is j Envy, Jess hilarious, Charlamage the guy. We
are the Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in
the building.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
One of the best messages in the Democratic Party.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
That's right, we have women. Jasmine Crockett, welcome back morn morning.
Wake up.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
I am when you be clapping back, you wake up
with you. But we don't have any hearings this early.
I just want to be weird. Nothing starts before ten o'clock.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
How are you, first and foremost? How you feeling?
Speaker 3 (00:32):
I'm over it. It's only been what has it been
thirty days? Yet this bol this fool is driving me crazy.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Do you eat sleeping? Shit? This though? Like? Do you mean? Like?
Do you don't? Never?
Speaker 4 (00:42):
Like just turn off, turn the TV off, like everything,
like you know what. I don't want to think about it.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
I don't want to do nothing as much as I
don't want to think about it. I definitely stop watching
the news as much as I used to. But people
are like DM and me. They're sending me emails. We're
constantly getting phone calls, So no, I don't turn off.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Is there anything good that this administration has done so
far anything that you can say, well, at least that's
a good thing.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Not nothing.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
I saw Bernie Sanders post yesterday about he likes what
Trump is attempting to do with the Pentagon by auditing them.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
And stuff like that, attempting let's see it happen. Here's
the reality. I serve on the Oversight Committee. That's where
all the drama typically happens. And we've had Department of
Defense come before us a number of times. The vast
majority of the waste, fraught, and abuse that we have
in this country is Department of Defense. You can google
and find out that at some point in time we
were spending like one thousand dollars per toilet or something.
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So that's where we see these inflated costs. That's where
we have a lot of contractors, that's where they play
a lot of games. That's where Elin gets the vast
majority of his money is out of Defense. And when
they come before us and we ask them about their audit,
they haven't had a clean audit in the last six
times we've asked for an audit. So the fact that
they're going to start with people that are getting six
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dollars a day to eat, or they want to go
after the little old lady that's just trying to get
her little health care and they believe that that's what
the savings is. That's not where the savings is. Nor
is it going after career civil servants and saying, oh,
let me take your coins, let me take your job.
Because when we add up, even if we fired everybody
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that works for the federal government, it's only maybe four
or five percent of our budget, but over or approximately
fifty percent of our discretionary budget is defense, and they
can't pass an audit. So why we didn't start there
where Elon has decided that he was going to get
two new contracts just in two weeks, one for four
hundred million dollars to Tesla, another for a little over
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three hundred million dollars to SpaceX. I don't know why
we didn't start there, but it seems like we could
find a lot of waste, fraud and abuse because again
they've not been able to pass an audit.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
There is a lot of waste for fraud and abuse
in the federal government.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Though I'm not going to say that there's a lot.
I'm going to say that it does exist. I'm going
to say that exist. I don't think that there's a lot.
I think we're in debt because we decide that we're
going to reduce the income. Right, So under Trump and
his first administration, we went into debt eight trillion dollars. Now,
he wanted to say it was because of COVID, it
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really wasn't. Obviously there was money that we sent out
because people were in need during COVID to make sure
that we didn't go into a recession. But at the
end of the day, it was because he said, oh,
wait a minute, that income, We're gonna stop bringing that
in from the top one percenters. Well, those Trump tax
cuts they expire right about now, and he's trying to
reinstitute them. So here it is. You've got Elon Muss
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running around Tomason, I'm cutting this, I'm slashing this, I'm
doing this and that and da da da, all this
kind of stuff. Right. I do want to be clear
that at the same time, they're saying, but we got
to raise the debt limit, Well, why do you have
to raise the debt limit if we are saving all
this money? You know why? Because they actually want to
deepen the tax cuts for all those billionaires that were
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sitting on stage with him on January twentieth. Those guys
are looking to keep more money in their pocket. That
is why it's why we ran into debt last time.
It's why we're going to run into debt again. The
only time that we've had a budget that was clean
and we didn't have to worry about debt. You know
who was in office, Bill Clinton? Bill Clinton a Democrat.
(04:18):
You know what the tax rate was. It was what
Kamala Harris was proposing. That is not the tax rate
that they are looking to do on the one percenters.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
School school me on this too, right, Bill Clinton did
the National Partnership for Reinventing Government. He essentially elon saying
he's essentially doing the same thing Bill Clinton did. As
far as, like, you know, making the government smaller or
more efficient. You know, what do you say to that,
what's the difference between what Clinton did in the nineties
and what he s So there was.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
A lot that's different. But I do want to start
with because I actually looked at the numbers, we really
work kind of big. We actually had more people working
in the federal government when Bill Clinton was in office
initially than we have now, you know the differences. The
country's just a little bit bigger, right, So chances are
you would need more. And we're talking about the people
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that are delivering your mail. You're talking about the people
because all y'all about to start calling us some much
someone I ain't got my tax refund check? Okay, So
like firing the irs, we're talking about you know, the
people that do FAA so the planes don't fall out
the sky, right, So we have a lot more going on,
and we literally don't even have as many people as
we had working when he came in, so we were
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a little kind of bloated when it came down to it.
But also all presidents should have advisors, and that's essentially
what he had, was an advisor. What they have said
is that Elon is the one that cut off the
spicett of money, like this is after money was appropriated
and then he's like, oh no, no, no, you can't get
that money. And now people are dying in other countries
because USAID has stopped. And I want to be clear
(05:52):
about something. You can shut down USAID if you want to,
but that has to be done congressionally, Okay. That's number one.
Number two, USAID is less than one percent of our budget.
So they over here talking about something, Oh, they handing
out condoms and they doing this and all this kind
of stuff. It's literally less than one percent of our
budget because they don't want you to pay attention to
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the over ninety nine percent of the budget, where yes,
I would say most of the waste, fraud, and abuse
is actually still at the hands of somebody like Elon Musk.
Like these bootleg trucks that he decided that he was
going to sell the federal government. I think maybe at
one hundred thousand dollars. I don't know what the price
is per truck or whatever. But he's selling these trucks
at the same time that he's getting rid of all
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the people that were conducting investigations over him about Tesla,
investigations about SpaceX. He got rid of all those people.
And even in that interview that Trump just did, he's
like asked by Fox News of all places, right, He's asked, well,
you know who's going to oversee Elon and make sure
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his conflicts are good? He's like, oh, Elon, is I'm
my woman in now? Like I mean, because I got
a whole body of people that's over me, Like I
don't just get to decide what is like right and wrong.
And honestly, I'm not allowed to take any money, like
I have to live a very poor life right now,
right like you're getting paid, I could be getting paid.
(07:15):
I made more money before. I will make more money
up right now. I am living, not in the overflow, no,
I mean, oh yeah, yeah, listen, no, no, no. And
I had to shut them down because first they said
that I had a husband. No husband, y'all. First they
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said I had a husband, and they said that I
was paying him half a million dollars to keep me safe.
And people were like, he should be doing that for free.
And I was like, I don't know if y'all mix
up the playground or if y'all just think every black
girl that comes to Congress brings a husband who has
to live off. That's not what it is, Okay, No husband,
never been married, never been engaged, right, that's number one.
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So and they said, well, she's worth nine million dollars
and she's got all these homes. Let me tell you something.
When I first got to Congress, about two weeks in,
there was a case that I've been working for seven years.
It was a civil rights case, one of my last
two civil rights cases, and I still got one pennant.
So just so y'all know, if I got to resign,
I'm a resign. But nevertheless, it goes to trial, I'm
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unable to participate because I'm not supposed to be. But
I'm in this wine down period. It actually hits for
about twenty two million dollars. All right, so ethic says
you can't collect your attorneys feel that at all? Now,
mind you, I worked this case before I ever ran
for Congress, right, So like that gives you an idea
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of how far they go when it comes to the no.
But here's the deal. I would have resigned and I
will design. No, I'm not finna play with my money
like y'all tripping, because I worked on that case for
seven years. It was against a very small city that
literally can't pay it. Now, if for some reason and
they go find the coins, then absolutely I'm resigning, forcing
a special election and I'll win, right, But I do
(09:06):
have another one that is penning, and it's pinning against
the city of Dallas, and the officer in that case
actually played guilty if the City of Dallas does pay up.
You heard it here. First, You're resigning, and it will
be a seven figure payday for me because as an attorney, yeah,
we do have cases that hit for millions of dollars.
It's not really that odd. The thing is that I've
(09:29):
always been a bleeding heart liberal. I have, so I
was doing more criminal defense than anything. I wasn't really
doing a lot of the big million dollar cases unless
I was helping out the homies. I've got plenty of
cases where I've gone into court help homies get seven
figure results. But that never was me. I just wanted
to be comfortable. And now I got, you know, deal
with Congress.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
You said you can resign and didn't run again.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
You said, yeah, I'm let my Yeah. Billionaires in Congress
that part, and they all got upset about this lie.
I'm like, first of all, why y'all mad? If this
what's true? Why is this a problem? It's a problem
just because I'm a black woman for most of them, right,
because they still not mad that Elon literally made another
(10:12):
one hundred and something billion dollars since the election. Y'all
not mad at this African man.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
A question you think a lot of the stuff that
Trump is doing now is to quiet that is, well,
we're possibly gonna give you guys five thousand dollars as
the district, possibly gonna take the congestion prices. Say hello
to the king. You think he's doing those things to say,
you know what, all the rest of our stuff, these
people won't even check me because I'm doing they think
I'm doing this.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
That's exactly right. He knows that they're not going to
check them, right, Like, I mean, you can go back
and play the clips of him talking about how he
loves the uneducated. Right if you would ever run for president,
he was runn as a Republican, like and we know, like,
this isn't me trying to throw shade. These are just
the facts when you look at who's voting for who
the less educated folks. And when I say educated, I'm
not even talking about formal education. I'm talking about people
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that literally don't want to read and enlighten themselves on facts.
Those are the people that typically vote for the Republicans.
And it's one of the reasons that we have to
stop writing in theses as Democrats, right, Like, we want
to give you every single little detail that we can
find so that you can have all the information. But
the reality is that the average person that is going
out there and voting, they're not paying attention to that.
(11:22):
And we fail to realize how selfish people are. People
go out and they vote in their own self interest, right,
And so you had all these races that showed up
and decided that they were going to vote for the
other races because they thought, hey, we are all the same.
But the reality is that he is a rich racist, okay,
and so when he decided that he was going to
look out for somebody, it was only going to be
other rich white guys, not the rest of y'all. So
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as you're losing your job, as you're losing your medicaid,
as you're losing your farm, you're feeling a way because
you're like, wait a minute, you were supposed to go
after the others, not come after us. And now they're saying, oh, well,
we'll give you a five thousand dollars check. I don't
see it happening right now. That is not a part
of the budget that they have proposed, that is for sure.
So they just had a markup. So this is the
(12:06):
first that they're ever talking about this. The budget that
they proposed where they went through a thirteen hour markup
just the other day, proposed getting rid of Medicare. So
I mean, theoretically, they should have the money if you
decide that people won't have healthcare in this country, which
costs a little bit more than five thousand dollars a person.
But the reality is that they're not going to do that.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
You know, it's so interesting I said that eighteen months
after he got sworn in. I felt like, you know,
the economy was just going to be in the toilet,
and I felt like that's what they were going to do,
Like they were going to do either the tax credits
or the stimulus checks just to pacify all of the
people that's going to be out in the street complaining.
I mean, you got twelve dollard federal workers already fired
and haven't been.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
Been a month.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
No, I mean, what's today the nineteenth He's wearing January twentieth.
So yeah, we are. And what I need people to
understand is that five thousand dollars, even if you get it,
it's not going very far because we are headed to
a recession. It is the bottom line, and you know,
people talked about how terrible the economy was, and that
was more so, like things were expensive, but people were
absolutely able to still enjoy all these playe rides because
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every time I called a flight, it was absolutely packed, right,
And so yes it was expensive, but you could pay
for it. You're gonna end up in a situation where
you're not gonna be able to afford the food. Right now,
you're getting rid of the people that labor in the fields,
right because here's the reality. When you look back at
the history of this country, they have always relied on
some person of color to labor. That is why they
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needed slave labor, right, Like we were the ones that
they took onto the plantations to work the fields. And
so we know that we have so many immigrants that
come into this country and the only thing that they're
looking for is a way to survive. And so they
will work for the pennies that is paid to actually
work the farms, and that keeps the cost of our
food down. But when they send their money home, it
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goes a long way, and so their family is able
to live a better life than they would have been
able to live if they were still there where they
didn't have the job opportunities, right, But these are also
the people that are building our houses. As you're complaining
about the cost of homes, now we have another input
cost that's about to go up because listen, these people
aren't showing up. I just talked to contractors down in Atlanta,
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Georgia that talked about the fact that their workers are
not showing up to work because they are concerned about
whether or not they are gonna come and try to
take them away. And this is even if you are
a citizen. Because Ice is so ignorant. They rounded up everybody.
They rounding up Puerto Ricans, they are Americans, right, They
are rounding up Native Americans. They are the most American
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that you can find, right, Like, they are rounding up everybody.
So people of color are like, yo, I am not
even going to work. Right, So now you're talking about
costs going up, but you're also talking about less people working.
The United States is the fifteenth largest employer in the
entire world. Right, So now they're like, oh, yeah, all
those people were firing. They can just go to private industry.
The jobs don't exist, and private industry is signaling that
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they know that the recession is coming. Southwest has never
done a layoff like what they did in the entire
existence of Southwest, and they just cut fifteen percent of
their workforce. So we're seeing where private industry is starting
to collapse and starting to actually reduce their workforce instead
of increase it. So where are these people going to go?
And people don't realize how many organizations, private or otherwise
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rely on federal dollars in some way. And now you're saying,
we're going to take those federal dollars out, but we're
not putting them back into people's pockets. We're putting them
into the pockets of my friends. So now Elon is
going to get more money. Now I'm going to figure
out how to serve myself because he also told his
Department of Justice, do not enforce not, do not enforce
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the marijuana laws right on the books, not do not
enforce the fact that there's this disparity between crack and
cocaine on the federal level, but do not enforce foreign
influence laws. Okay, well, I'm sorry I had nobody from
the hood get caught up because they were engaged in
some kind of foreign influence as fuck. I mean, so
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who is it that typically gets caught up. It's people
with access and so now basically he's signaling to all
of these people that have tried to corrupt our government,
come on through, drop off a bag. In fact, y'all
just had a senator nearby that just went down. They
just gave Menendez eleven years. But the exact thing that
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he's telling his Department of Justice, do not enforce this.
That's where we are.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
How do you feel about that, because you know, it
seems like if you cool with Trump, you get a party.
If you cool with Trump, he'll tell you don't prosecute him.
Recently we've seen Eric Adams not being prosecuted. What's your
thoughts on that, cool.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
With Trump you get paid?
Speaker 3 (16:50):
Listen, my thought is that I'm still black in America
and I ain't gonna play no kind of games like so,
I am gonna walk the straight and narrow for a
number of reasons. Number one, I have some rols about myself.
In number two, I know that they would love an
opportunity to lock me up right like I would be
the exception to the rule. But you're absolutely right. I mean,
Canada has really been the one to call it out,
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the fact that I'm rooting for Canada and I'm rooting
for Mexico. A lot is really wild, but they are
really the ones that are speaking truth to power right now.
They can see what it is and they were like,
we are not messing with this crazy regime from marer
Lago and basically calling them thugs. That's what it is.
But I'm like, y'all knew who he was when y'all
elected him, So don't act surprised. You elected somebody who
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was actually convicted by a jury of his peers of
thirty four felony convictions. Again, if it was me, there's
no way. I mean right now, I ain't got no convictions,
no arrests, no nothing, and I would never be qualified
for president in this country in the eyes of the
vast majority of them. But a guy who literally not
only ended up becoming a convicted felon but also had
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other cases that were pending in other jurisdictions, Oh yeah,
he's good to go.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
You just said something that I've been thinking about. Why
do people still talk like Donald Trump is campaigning as
opposed to like he's actually here right now in the
flesh doing what it is that he's doing. Like they
still talk like you know, they stopped like they talk
like they can stop this, Like.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
I saw governor governor of Illinois JV. What's his name, David.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
Yes, he was talking, but I'm like, yo, that should
have been said four years ago, the things that he
was saying, like like why are they talking like he's
still campaigning.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
I'm gonna say this. I think that there's two things.
I think that again, Democrats are so cerebral that we
were like, of course, nobody's going to vote for him again.
They'll remember the dead bodies they were piling up in
freezer trucks in New York. They'll remember that he was
selling people the in Jake Bleach. They'll remember that, you know,
they were losing their jobs. They did not know if
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their family members were going to live or die. They
will remember. We thought he like people would remember, and
then we started to realize way too late that a
lot of people forgot all they remembered. It was almost
like our brains would not remember the bad. All they
remembered was like things like a twelve hundred dollars check,
but they didn't remember how they got it right, Like
they didn't remember Pelosi. They didn't remember the Democrats were
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controlling the House at the time, like they didn't remember
that part of the story.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
The Democrats messaging and marketing.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
Well, you know, we're still working. But I will say
the other part of this though about Pritzker, is that
I think what we're trying to do is at least
make sure that people wake up because there are things
that we can do. I don't accept defeat. I mean,
if I accepted defeat, here's the reality, I wouldn't be
sitting here before you. My ancestors never accepted defeat, so
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I won't either. Did he win? Absolutely? Are we defeated?
Absolutely not? And so right now costitution? Absolutely? I liked that.
Look at you with your alliteration. Okay, there we got.
So here's the deal. We know that the House is
only a three member to friends, three members going to
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the Democratic side means that we control the House and
we start slowing things down. We have three seats that
are about to be up. We have two seats that
are up right now. We have another run that will
be up in New York. And so I'm telling people
put all your energy into these three seats because I
can't wait two years. Like I'm tired of him already,
so we need an opportunity to start stopping him. So
I do want governors like Pritzker to give people this
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belief and this hope, and I want people to go
out and say, you know what, I don't have very
much money, but I think that it's worthwhile for me
to give my ten dollars to these people that are
running in Florida, to give money to whoever is going
to ultimately run here in New York. I think it's
worth my time to show up and actually knock on
some doors and talk to people and listen to people
and ask them why did you vote for Trump? And
(20:47):
Trump would still be your president? But don't you want
this to slow down a little bit. Don't you want
somebody to say, hey, wait a minute. We think that
it's important that social security still exists, and the only
thing that will stand between you and your social security
is potentially having a democratic House. And it doesn't mean
you're a Democrat, but it does mean that you believe
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in a democratic republic. And so I want us to
work these three seats right now because one of the
elections Florida will take place on April.
Speaker 4 (21:17):
First, So those are the guardrails that are in place
to protect you know, people like the federal workers from
what Elon Musk and Donald.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
Trumpet well, as it relates that to that part, the
guardrails are the courts. That's the only thing that we
have standing right now. And I'm concerned that ultimately the
High Court belongs to him. So I know he's trying
to get those cases up to the Supreme Court again,
get them to dismantle the constitution a bit, dismantle laws
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a little bit. But the fact that they push back
on TikTok of all things like just forget the subject matter.
But ultimately, in a nine to zero decision when it
came down to TikTok, they said, oh, never mind, Like, no,
you can't do that. That will signed into law whether
you like it or not. It will sign its law,
and you can't just unilaterally overturn that. So I think
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that we may have a little hope from them when
it comes down to things like once Congress appropriates something,
you can't do anything about it. Now here's the thing.
It'll never make it the Supreme Court in time because
this last funding bill runs out on March fourteenth. We
won't get to the Supreme Court by March fourteenth to
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get a decision. But we potentially will have a new budget,
and that budget should be done because he does have
a Trump trifecta. It should be done in the image
of what it is that they want to deliver. So
we'll see if they can get it done. I don't know.
I think we're shutting down on March fourteenth.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
On March fourteenth, you think the government's gonna shut down?
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Yeah, I mean the last time we shut down was
under Trump. When we shut down I think at least
two times, and the longest shutdown we've ever had in
the history of this country came under Trump. And right
now they have a slimmer majority than they had when
I was in the hundred and eighteenth session. So right
now they only have they can only lose one vote.
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One Republican vote can vote against it, So if all
Democrats show up and vote against it, which we should,
they can only lose one. Right now. I don't see
how they get it past, but we'll see they can
get it past the Senate. I don't see how they
get it past the House. Why do you think people
still love him so much?
Speaker 5 (23:26):
And I'm not talking about that I'm talking about, like us,
Like why are there some of us that still favor him?
Like why is he still so like he he has
such a high approval rate Trump.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
I don't know that. Well, I ain't gonna say you
got a high appropri rate. He is doing better in
his approvals than his people typically, like a lot of
black people.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Mean literally, they put out a poll and I think
his approval rating was fifty three percent.
Speaker 5 (23:54):
Talking about black people though, right, Yeah, so many that
I can't I can't.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
I can't explain it. I have no explanations. The only
thing that I can say is that Number one, I'm
happy to know that Trump is an anomaly. People continue
to try to be the next Trump. They are not right.
Like we've seen it with Desantus, he's not. We've seen
it with Vek Ramaswami, he's not. Elon Musk. His numbers
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continue to drag him down. Right, for whatever reason, Elon's
numbers go down and Trumps still kind of linger about
the same orgo a little bit higher. I will say
that there is a cultural aspect to Trump that is
unique and unlike anything we've ever experienced. And I think
that was another failure that we had in the campaign
overall is to understand that he's different. He's different. This
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is a guy who's had his name on buildings forever, sure,
and people have been like, oh, he owned it, Not really,
his name is just on it, right, And so he's
very good at creating this perception. He's created this perception
of I am that guy, right, and he literally became
the closest thing to Teflon done that we have seen, right,
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like who has this many cases in this many jurisdictions?
And yeah, I know, but I'm just saying so, I
think that from a cultural aspect, like he used to
be talked about in rap songs and things like that,
I think it's hard for you to then say, oh, no,
he's a terrible person because there's been this kind of
(25:28):
aura around him that was created, which may have been
okay for TV, may have been okay for music, may
have been okay for casinos, but it ain't okay in
the Oval office. Like I need y'all to separate the two,
like I don't need it to be that everybody that
kind of walks in that lane is now somehow qualified
(25:49):
to be president of the United States, because that's it
takes different qualities, and I think that that's why it's
been so hard to kind of tear him down, is
because he's different. I don't think these people are necessary Republicans.
I don't think they're necessarily going over to that side.
I don't think they're necessarily MAGA. I think that they
are just Trumpers, like period. And I think Maga's is
(26:09):
supposed to be a movement. But I believe that once
he is out of the way, right like, once he's
out of the presidency, if he leaves, if he leaves Jesus,
because he decided he a king now. But if he
leaves the presidency, I don't see anybody else being able
to take up the mantle he already said. Jd Vance
ain't the one, Like I mean, there's nobody else that
(26:31):
will be able to take up that mantle because he
is unique. Child.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
What is what is on your break down? What's on
your shirt?
Speaker 4 (26:40):
Child?
Speaker 3 (26:41):
Yes? Yes, yes, So we dropped the child collection after
Nancy mays at it like she wanted to take me outside.
So with you, I don't have time.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
We gotta jump.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
You can't jumping.
Speaker 5 (27:09):
When she asked you, I'd like to take this outside.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
I graduate from the citadel, which is all military.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
Yeah, right, So d e I helped her just f
y I okay, because it didn't exist, and there were
people that did not want a woman in the institution.
But her father actually taught at the institution, and so
she wanted to be just like her dad, and so
they sued, they went to the courts so that she
(27:42):
could get in as a woman. And now she is
the very same woman that wants to do like a
bunch of the same immigrants to somehow get over here,
get their citizenship and then they like, forget everybody else
coming behind me. She is the same. And so she
claims that she's been a champion for women and that's
why she's against trans people. But she forgets that she
(28:03):
benefited from diversity, equity and inclusion like most white women,
because white women are the vast majority of the beneficiaries
of DEI policies. But that's all they is she But
when she said let's take it outside, you know, I
really want to be like, let's go now, I knew
that I couldn't because again they would have been trying
to expel me. And if the tables were turned, if
(28:26):
I had said that to her, oh oh, the Karen
would have been calling everybody to come through and come
grab me, and they would have had me on the
floor for an explosion for trying to incite violence against
another member of Congress literally in a committee hearing. But
instead they said, well, maybe she meant go outside for coffee.
(28:49):
I do be thinking that's what they said.
Speaker 4 (28:52):
I be thinking that these people are so old and
so culturally clue is that they don't understand.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
No, no, no, no no.
Speaker 4 (28:58):
And when he did it, no, and even when you
did your bad Bill Bush bodies at the guys like whatever, it's.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
The same guy, Nancy, I am not a child.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
Now.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
I do think that she is culturally unaware, even though
she's always bragging about how many black people she represents
in her district in South Carolina. Black people in South Carolina,
wake up, get rid up.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
We went to high school together.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
No, well she's anyway. I'm not gonna cuss you said
the economy she does, because South Carolina about to catch it,
just like all these other ones, all of them, they're
about to catch it the hardest. Like you think you're
quote unquote owning the Libs. But guess what New York
has money. Okay, guess what California has money? Right, the
(29:49):
ones that are broke and need the money, the New
York and California Bay into is you little red states
down south? The vast majority of y'all. Y'all are the
ones that are broken. Y'all are the ones that are
constantly bleeding population as well. Right, Like, we know that
these small states, like people are moving to the big cities,
which tend to be in the bluer states, right where
(30:11):
there are more opportunities. So but Nancy, you know, she
now wants to want to take it outside because they
going through all of that. No, she she just wants
to try to elevate her name and her status. So
she's allegedly talking about running for governor. Don't do it.
Don't do it, South Carolina. But if you look into her,
(30:34):
like she says so much staff that has resigned, she
is consistently being accused of all types of inappropriateness when
it comes to like sex stuff in general. So beyond her, well,
i'll just say that in committee right in that same hearing,
she was talking about quote unquote dicks with or chicks
(30:54):
with correct. Yeah, so she was doing like all that
kind of stuff. So she constantly like throws the word
around and committee and that kind of thing. But she's
also been accused of talking to staff about her sex
life and making them uncomfortable, and so she's had staff
resign alleging that she is very inappropriate.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
She did just say she was a victim of rape
and sexual abuse.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
He also did that with a lot of protections. So
people don't know that if you go on the house floor,
you can pretty much say anything and people can't suit you.
It's the debate clause. Yeah, the the oh, I forget
the other part of it. But anyway, what do you
mean speech and debate? Speech and debate clause means that
when you are in the chamber and you're on the
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floor and you say certain things, I can say something
defamatory and I can't be sued.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
So the theory is this is that she decided, now
that she's getting ready for this gubernatorial she decided to
kind of head off some potential bad headlines by going
onto the house floor and accusing not one, not two,
but three men of sexually abusing her and recording it
(32:10):
and drugging her. So the thought is that maybe there's
a sex safe that's about to come out, and so
if she went on the floor, they can't do anything
about it. Now she's not filed charges against any of them.
She just went on the floor, made these accusations, but
did not go and file a case against anybody. Now
(32:30):
she files a case against somebody and she's found to
be lying, that is a crime. But she could go
on the floor and accuse them of whatever and they
can't sue her. So interesting place to go and report, most.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
Jasmine somebody else?
Speaker 5 (32:54):
Is it true to somebody else that works for another
sitting member? They had call than that they bet they
was betting on a fight.
Speaker 3 (33:02):
Oh yeah, they wanted to see it like that. I
don't know who it was, but we have Capitol police.
We have the Capitol police following up on that because
they called during working hours on a house phone and
they were so smart that they didn't realize that all
calls made on house phones are recorded, so it is recorded.
(33:23):
We know which member's office it came from. It was
a Republican out of Texas whose office it came from.
And they they yeah, so they called my office and
was like, yeah, this is what we want to see.
Blah blah, blah blah blah. We're trying to place a bet.
Some random staffer called my office. It's the audacity for
(33:45):
I can see why.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
They would want to see it, But this is what
I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (33:48):
Right, Do you think that Congress could get more done
if y'all actually did their hands every now? Andy, No,
just real quick, real quick, thirty seconds then get it out.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
No.
Speaker 4 (34:00):
I do want to ask you this guy. I know
you got to go. Why don't Democrats sit down? Chuck
Schuman and Hakim Jefferies. They all represent the old way
of doing things that don't work anymore? People like yourself, AOC,
y'all know how to communicate, y'all know how to message.
Why don't they let y'all be front tracing in the party?
What are they holding on to? I know their positions,
but forget the position. If they're not connecting with people,
(34:21):
why are they the ones that are out front but
not y'all?
Speaker 3 (34:24):
What do you mean outfront? I think that I think
you're you're referencing myself and AOC because we have been
out front.
Speaker 4 (34:32):
No, definitely, But when they talk about actual democratic leadership
and who the leaders are, always always point to them
because of the position that they're in.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
But to me, that's just the position.
Speaker 3 (34:41):
I get it. And and both of us ran for
leadership positions and we were rejected by our but.
Speaker 4 (34:48):
That's because of those that's because of those people who
represent an old way of doing things.
Speaker 3 (34:53):
I get it.
Speaker 4 (34:53):
If they open their eyes and actually see what's going
on in the world and who's connecting, who can lead
us into the next generation.
Speaker 1 (34:59):
Clearly it should be you. When people like AOC and leadership,
I get it.
Speaker 3 (35:02):
I will say that Hakim decided that I can't speak
for the Senate because I don't know what all was
going on over there. But Hakim decided to start a
rapid Response team, which is something that I proposed when
I was running to become our communications director, and so
I am a part of that rapid Response team, and
so it's just now starting to kind of take shape.
(35:24):
And so basically my job is to officially kind of
get out there and do some videos. I'm really supposed
to do some lives with some other people that are
on that rapid Response team, so that like when things
happen in real time, we're responding. But another thing, I mean,
there's just a lot that we could be doing. And
I'm hoping that we get a lot more aggressive, right
(35:45):
because I.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
Think them, well, the need to get more aggressive.
Speaker 3 (35:50):
Well I'll say, well, well, I'll say, is that like,
for instance, you know, there's been this kind of attitude
of we can't deal with all the stuff that he
got coming out, like we're not gonna be able to
And I get that to a certain extent, but I
do think that at a very minimum, it provides some
semblance of comfort and confidence for the American people when
(36:13):
they see us pushing back every single day. Yes, sure,
and it may not be every single thing that he
does in a day, but pushing back on like the
thing of the day, right, Like we literally need to
be like, okay, so this is the dumb thing for
the day, right, Like just so a little even if
it's five minutes, like this is the big one for
the day, right, and we go after it. And so
(36:34):
I think that we do have to get more aggressive
and decide every single day like this is just what
it is. Like I told my staff, I'm like, y'all
had it good last term. I know y'all thought y'all didn't,
but I'm like, we actually now have to work ten
times harder than we did before, because we've got to
make sure people understand how bad these policies are and
what's happening. If we don't communicate it in real time,
(36:56):
then we're doomed. That was the problem even when we
were trying to get the White House back, is that
we did not communicate in real time the good things
we were doing. Now they're like, oh, wait a minute,
those wait minutes. So the overdraft fees, that was Joe
Biden that reduced it so it wasn't more than five
dollars per overdraft. And now the Republicans have filed a
(37:16):
bill saying, you know what, we want those overdraft fees
to go back up, because again they're looking out for
the rich people, not the people who was struggling. Who
has overdraftees? Is it the rich people or is the
people live in check to check? So the people they
kept saying, oh, no, he's for the middle class. No
he's not, No he's not. And they tried to convince
you that the Democrats had done nothing, but they had.
(37:38):
They had consistently done things for the middle class. It's
just that. And so when even when Democrats are like, oh,
we're not the party of the middle class anymore. Yes
we are. Our policies are clear because overdraft fees, that's
not for rich people. But now it is about to
be for rich people. You know why because again we're
seeing a government that wants to prey on those that
are struggling so that others at the top can benefit
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to some ridiculous amount of money. And that's what we're
about to go through. So I'm just like, listen, if
you were broke and thought he was your guy, well
God bless you.
Speaker 1 (38:10):
All right, Jeffers can never talk like that.
Speaker 4 (38:12):
I just want you to know that you can never
speak to you know that.
Speaker 2 (38:17):
Thank you, Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett. We appreciate, appreciate, thank you
so much. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, Wake that
ass up in the morning.
Speaker 1 (38:26):
The Breakfast Club.
Wake that ass up in the morning. The Breakfast Club Morning.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Everybody is j Envy, Jess hilarious, Charlamage the guy. We
are the Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in
the building.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
One of the best messages in the Democratic Party.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
That's right, we have women. Jasmine Crockett, welcome back morn morning.
Wake up.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
I am when you be clapping back, you wake up
with you. But we don't have any hearings this early.
I just want to be weird. Nothing starts before ten o'clock.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
How are you, first and foremost? How you feeling?
Speaker 3 (00:32):
I'm over it. It's only been what has it been
thirty days? Yet this bol this fool is driving me crazy.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Do you eat sleeping? Shit? This though? Like? Do you mean? Like?
Do you don't? Never?
Speaker 4 (00:42):
Like just turn off, turn the TV off, like everything,
like you know what. I don't want to think about it.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
I don't want to do nothing as much as I
don't want to think about it. I definitely stop watching
the news as much as I used to. But people
are like DM and me. They're sending me emails. We're
constantly getting phone calls, So no, I don't turn off.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Is there anything good that this administration has done so
far anything that you can say, well, at least that's
a good thing.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Not nothing.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
I saw Bernie Sanders post yesterday about he likes what
Trump is attempting to do with the Pentagon by auditing them.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
And stuff like that, attempting let's see it happen. Here's
the reality. I serve on the Oversight Committee. That's where
all the drama typically happens. And we've had Department of
Defense come before us a number of times. The vast
majority of the waste, fraught, and abuse that we have
in this country is Department of Defense. You can google
and find out that at some point in time we
were spending like one thousand dollars per toilet or something.
(01:37):
So that's where we see these inflated costs. That's where
we have a lot of contractors, that's where they play
a lot of games. That's where Elin gets the vast
majority of his money is out of Defense. And when
they come before us and we ask them about their audit,
they haven't had a clean audit in the last six
times we've asked for an audit. So the fact that
they're going to start with people that are getting six
(01:58):
dollars a day to eat, or they want to go
after the little old lady that's just trying to get
her little health care and they believe that that's what
the savings is. That's not where the savings is. Nor
is it going after career civil servants and saying, oh,
let me take your coins, let me take your job.
Because when we add up, even if we fired everybody
(02:18):
that works for the federal government, it's only maybe four
or five percent of our budget, but over or approximately
fifty percent of our discretionary budget is defense, and they
can't pass an audit. So why we didn't start there
where Elon has decided that he was going to get
two new contracts just in two weeks, one for four
hundred million dollars to Tesla, another for a little over
(02:41):
three hundred million dollars to SpaceX. I don't know why
we didn't start there, but it seems like we could
find a lot of waste, fraud and abuse because again
they've not been able to pass an audit.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
There is a lot of waste for fraud and abuse
in the federal government.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Though I'm not going to say that there's a lot.
I'm going to say that it does exist. I'm going
to say that exist. I don't think that there's a lot.
I think we're in debt because we decide that we're
going to reduce the income. Right, So under Trump and
his first administration, we went into debt eight trillion dollars. Now,
he wanted to say it was because of COVID, it
(03:15):
really wasn't. Obviously there was money that we sent out
because people were in need during COVID to make sure
that we didn't go into a recession. But at the
end of the day, it was because he said, oh,
wait a minute, that income, We're gonna stop bringing that
in from the top one percenters. Well, those Trump tax
cuts they expire right about now, and he's trying to
reinstitute them. So here it is. You've got Elon Muss
(03:36):
running around Tomason, I'm cutting this, I'm slashing this, I'm
doing this and that and da da da, all this
kind of stuff. Right. I do want to be clear
that at the same time, they're saying, but we got
to raise the debt limit, Well, why do you have
to raise the debt limit if we are saving all
this money? You know why? Because they actually want to
deepen the tax cuts for all those billionaires that were
(03:57):
sitting on stage with him on January twentieth. Those guys
are looking to keep more money in their pocket. That
is why it's why we ran into debt last time.
It's why we're going to run into debt again. The
only time that we've had a budget that was clean
and we didn't have to worry about debt. You know
who was in office, Bill Clinton? Bill Clinton a Democrat.
(04:18):
You know what the tax rate was. It was what
Kamala Harris was proposing. That is not the tax rate
that they are looking to do on the one percenters.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
School school me on this too, right, Bill Clinton did
the National Partnership for Reinventing Government. He essentially elon saying
he's essentially doing the same thing Bill Clinton did. As
far as, like, you know, making the government smaller or
more efficient. You know, what do you say to that,
what's the difference between what Clinton did in the nineties
and what he s So there was.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
A lot that's different. But I do want to start
with because I actually looked at the numbers, we really
work kind of big. We actually had more people working
in the federal government when Bill Clinton was in office
initially than we have now, you know the differences. The
country's just a little bit bigger, right, So chances are
you would need more. And we're talking about the people
(05:09):
that are delivering your mail. You're talking about the people
because all y'all about to start calling us some much
someone I ain't got my tax refund check? Okay, So
like firing the irs, we're talking about you know, the
people that do FAA so the planes don't fall out
the sky, right, So we have a lot more going on,
and we literally don't even have as many people as
we had working when he came in, so we were
(05:29):
a little kind of bloated when it came down to it.
But also all presidents should have advisors, and that's essentially
what he had, was an advisor. What they have said
is that Elon is the one that cut off the
spicett of money, like this is after money was appropriated
and then he's like, oh no, no, no, you can't get
that money. And now people are dying in other countries
because USAID has stopped. And I want to be clear
(05:52):
about something. You can shut down USAID if you want to,
but that has to be done congressionally, Okay. That's number one.
Number two, USAID is less than one percent of our budget.
So they over here talking about something, Oh, they handing
out condoms and they doing this and all this kind
of stuff. It's literally less than one percent of our
budget because they don't want you to pay attention to
(06:13):
the over ninety nine percent of the budget, where yes,
I would say most of the waste, fraud, and abuse
is actually still at the hands of somebody like Elon Musk.
Like these bootleg trucks that he decided that he was
going to sell the federal government. I think maybe at
one hundred thousand dollars. I don't know what the price
is per truck or whatever. But he's selling these trucks
at the same time that he's getting rid of all
(06:34):
the people that were conducting investigations over him about Tesla,
investigations about SpaceX. He got rid of all those people.
And even in that interview that Trump just did, he's
like asked by Fox News of all places, right, He's asked, well,
you know who's going to oversee Elon and make sure
(06:55):
his conflicts are good? He's like, oh, Elon, is I'm
my woman in now? Like I mean, because I got
a whole body of people that's over me, Like I
don't just get to decide what is like right and wrong.
And honestly, I'm not allowed to take any money, like
I have to live a very poor life right now,
right like you're getting paid, I could be getting paid.
(07:15):
I made more money before. I will make more money
up right now. I am living, not in the overflow, no,
I mean, oh yeah, yeah, listen, no, no, no. And
I had to shut them down because first they said
that I had a husband. No husband, y'all. First they
(07:37):
said I had a husband, and they said that I
was paying him half a million dollars to keep me safe.
And people were like, he should be doing that for free.
And I was like, I don't know if y'all mix
up the playground or if y'all just think every black
girl that comes to Congress brings a husband who has
to live off. That's not what it is, Okay, No husband,
never been married, never been engaged, right, that's number one.
(07:59):
So and they said, well, she's worth nine million dollars
and she's got all these homes. Let me tell you something.
When I first got to Congress, about two weeks in,
there was a case that I've been working for seven years.
It was a civil rights case, one of my last
two civil rights cases, and I still got one pennant.
So just so y'all know, if I got to resign,
I'm a resign. But nevertheless, it goes to trial, I'm
(08:22):
unable to participate because I'm not supposed to be. But
I'm in this wine down period. It actually hits for
about twenty two million dollars. All right, so ethic says
you can't collect your attorneys feel that at all? Now,
mind you, I worked this case before I ever ran
for Congress, right, So like that gives you an idea
(08:45):
of how far they go when it comes to the no.
But here's the deal. I would have resigned and I
will design. No, I'm not finna play with my money
like y'all tripping, because I worked on that case for
seven years. It was against a very small city that
literally can't pay it. Now, if for some reason and
they go find the coins, then absolutely I'm resigning, forcing
a special election and I'll win, right, But I do
(09:06):
have another one that is penning, and it's pinning against
the city of Dallas, and the officer in that case
actually played guilty if the City of Dallas does pay up.
You heard it here. First, You're resigning, and it will
be a seven figure payday for me because as an attorney, yeah,
we do have cases that hit for millions of dollars.
It's not really that odd. The thing is that I've
(09:29):
always been a bleeding heart liberal. I have, so I
was doing more criminal defense than anything. I wasn't really
doing a lot of the big million dollar cases unless
I was helping out the homies. I've got plenty of
cases where I've gone into court help homies get seven
figure results. But that never was me. I just wanted
to be comfortable. And now I got, you know, deal
with Congress.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
You said you can resign and didn't run again.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
You said, yeah, I'm let my Yeah. Billionaires in Congress
that part, and they all got upset about this lie.
I'm like, first of all, why y'all mad? If this
what's true? Why is this a problem? It's a problem
just because I'm a black woman for most of them, right,
because they still not mad that Elon literally made another
(10:12):
one hundred and something billion dollars since the election. Y'all
not mad at this African man.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
A question you think a lot of the stuff that
Trump is doing now is to quiet that is, well,
we're possibly gonna give you guys five thousand dollars as
the district, possibly gonna take the congestion prices. Say hello
to the king. You think he's doing those things to say,
you know what, all the rest of our stuff, these
people won't even check me because I'm doing they think
I'm doing this.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
That's exactly right. He knows that they're not going to
check them, right, Like, I mean, you can go back
and play the clips of him talking about how he
loves the uneducated. Right if you would ever run for president,
he was runn as a Republican, like and we know, like,
this isn't me trying to throw shade. These are just
the facts when you look at who's voting for who
the less educated folks. And when I say educated, I'm
not even talking about formal education. I'm talking about people
(11:00):
that literally don't want to read and enlighten themselves on facts.
Those are the people that typically vote for the Republicans.
And it's one of the reasons that we have to
stop writing in theses as Democrats, right, Like, we want
to give you every single little detail that we can
find so that you can have all the information. But
the reality is that the average person that is going
out there and voting, they're not paying attention to that.
(11:22):
And we fail to realize how selfish people are. People
go out and they vote in their own self interest, right,
And so you had all these races that showed up
and decided that they were going to vote for the
other races because they thought, hey, we are all the same.
But the reality is that he is a rich racist, okay,
and so when he decided that he was going to
look out for somebody, it was only going to be
other rich white guys, not the rest of y'all. So
(11:45):
as you're losing your job, as you're losing your medicaid,
as you're losing your farm, you're feeling a way because
you're like, wait a minute, you were supposed to go
after the others, not come after us. And now they're saying, oh, well,
we'll give you a five thousand dollars check. I don't
see it happening right now. That is not a part
of the budget that they have proposed, that is for sure.
So they just had a markup. So this is the
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first that they're ever talking about this. The budget that
they proposed where they went through a thirteen hour markup
just the other day, proposed getting rid of Medicare. So
I mean, theoretically, they should have the money if you
decide that people won't have healthcare in this country, which
costs a little bit more than five thousand dollars a person.
But the reality is that they're not going to do that.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
You know, it's so interesting I said that eighteen months
after he got sworn in. I felt like, you know,
the economy was just going to be in the toilet,
and I felt like that's what they were going to do,
Like they were going to do either the tax credits
or the stimulus checks just to pacify all of the
people that's going to be out in the street complaining.
I mean, you got twelve dollard federal workers already fired
and haven't been.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
Been a month.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
No, I mean, what's today the nineteenth He's wearing January twentieth.
So yeah, we are. And what I need people to
understand is that five thousand dollars, even if you get it,
it's not going very far because we are headed to
a recession. It is the bottom line, and you know,
people talked about how terrible the economy was, and that
was more so, like things were expensive, but people were
absolutely able to still enjoy all these playe rides because
(13:12):
every time I called a flight, it was absolutely packed, right,
And so yes it was expensive, but you could pay
for it. You're gonna end up in a situation where
you're not gonna be able to afford the food. Right now,
you're getting rid of the people that labor in the fields,
right because here's the reality. When you look back at
the history of this country, they have always relied on
some person of color to labor. That is why they
(13:34):
needed slave labor, right, Like we were the ones that
they took onto the plantations to work the fields. And
so we know that we have so many immigrants that
come into this country and the only thing that they're
looking for is a way to survive. And so they
will work for the pennies that is paid to actually
work the farms, and that keeps the cost of our
food down. But when they send their money home, it
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goes a long way, and so their family is able
to live a better life than they would have been
able to live if they were still there where they
didn't have the job opportunities, right, But these are also
the people that are building our houses. As you're complaining
about the cost of homes, now we have another input
cost that's about to go up because listen, these people
aren't showing up. I just talked to contractors down in Atlanta,
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Georgia that talked about the fact that their workers are
not showing up to work because they are concerned about
whether or not they are gonna come and try to
take them away. And this is even if you are
a citizen. Because Ice is so ignorant. They rounded up everybody.
They rounding up Puerto Ricans, they are Americans, right, They
are rounding up Native Americans. They are the most American
(14:35):
that you can find, right, Like, they are rounding up everybody.
So people of color are like, yo, I am not
even going to work. Right, So now you're talking about
costs going up, but you're also talking about less people working.
The United States is the fifteenth largest employer in the
entire world. Right, So now they're like, oh, yeah, all
those people were firing. They can just go to private industry.
The jobs don't exist, and private industry is signaling that
(14:59):
they know that the recession is coming. Southwest has never
done a layoff like what they did in the entire
existence of Southwest, and they just cut fifteen percent of
their workforce. So we're seeing where private industry is starting
to collapse and starting to actually reduce their workforce instead
of increase it. So where are these people going to go?
And people don't realize how many organizations, private or otherwise
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rely on federal dollars in some way. And now you're saying,
we're going to take those federal dollars out, but we're
not putting them back into people's pockets. We're putting them
into the pockets of my friends. So now Elon is
going to get more money. Now I'm going to figure
out how to serve myself because he also told his
Department of Justice, do not enforce not, do not enforce
(15:46):
the marijuana laws right on the books, not do not
enforce the fact that there's this disparity between crack and
cocaine on the federal level, but do not enforce foreign
influence laws. Okay, well, I'm sorry I had nobody from
the hood get caught up because they were engaged in
some kind of foreign influence as fuck. I mean, so
(16:10):
who is it that typically gets caught up. It's people
with access and so now basically he's signaling to all
of these people that have tried to corrupt our government,
come on through, drop off a bag. In fact, y'all
just had a senator nearby that just went down. They
just gave Menendez eleven years. But the exact thing that
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he's telling his Department of Justice, do not enforce this.
That's where we are.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
How do you feel about that, because you know, it
seems like if you cool with Trump, you get a party.
If you cool with Trump, he'll tell you don't prosecute him.
Recently we've seen Eric Adams not being prosecuted. What's your
thoughts on that, cool.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
With Trump you get paid?
Speaker 3 (16:50):
Listen, my thought is that I'm still black in America
and I ain't gonna play no kind of games like so,
I am gonna walk the straight and narrow for a
number of reasons. Number one, I have some rols about myself.
In number two, I know that they would love an
opportunity to lock me up right like I would be
the exception to the rule. But you're absolutely right. I mean,
Canada has really been the one to call it out,
(17:10):
the fact that I'm rooting for Canada and I'm rooting
for Mexico. A lot is really wild, but they are
really the ones that are speaking truth to power right now.
They can see what it is and they were like,
we are not messing with this crazy regime from marer
Lago and basically calling them thugs. That's what it is.
But I'm like, y'all knew who he was when y'all
elected him, So don't act surprised. You elected somebody who
(17:33):
was actually convicted by a jury of his peers of
thirty four felony convictions. Again, if it was me, there's
no way. I mean right now, I ain't got no convictions,
no arrests, no nothing, and I would never be qualified
for president in this country in the eyes of the
vast majority of them. But a guy who literally not
only ended up becoming a convicted felon but also had
(17:56):
other cases that were pending in other jurisdictions, Oh yeah,
he's good to go.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
You just said something that I've been thinking about. Why
do people still talk like Donald Trump is campaigning as
opposed to like he's actually here right now in the
flesh doing what it is that he's doing. Like they
still talk like you know, they stopped like they talk
like they can stop this, Like.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
I saw governor governor of Illinois JV. What's his name, David.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
Yes, he was talking, but I'm like, yo, that should
have been said four years ago, the things that he
was saying, like like why are they talking like he's
still campaigning.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
I'm gonna say this. I think that there's two things.
I think that again, Democrats are so cerebral that we
were like, of course, nobody's going to vote for him again.
They'll remember the dead bodies they were piling up in
freezer trucks in New York. They'll remember that he was
selling people the in Jake Bleach. They'll remember that, you know,
they were losing their jobs. They did not know if
(18:50):
their family members were going to live or die. They
will remember. We thought he like people would remember, and
then we started to realize way too late that a
lot of people forgot all they remembered. It was almost
like our brains would not remember the bad. All they
remembered was like things like a twelve hundred dollars check,
but they didn't remember how they got it right, Like
they didn't remember Pelosi. They didn't remember the Democrats were
(19:13):
controlling the House at the time, like they didn't remember
that part of the story.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
The Democrats messaging and marketing.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
Well, you know, we're still working. But I will say
the other part of this though about Pritzker, is that
I think what we're trying to do is at least
make sure that people wake up because there are things
that we can do. I don't accept defeat. I mean,
if I accepted defeat, here's the reality, I wouldn't be
sitting here before you. My ancestors never accepted defeat, so
(19:41):
I won't either. Did he win? Absolutely? Are we defeated?
Absolutely not? And so right now costitution? Absolutely? I liked that.
Look at you with your alliteration. Okay, there we got.
So here's the deal. We know that the House is
only a three member to friends, three members going to
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the Democratic side means that we control the House and
we start slowing things down. We have three seats that
are about to be up. We have two seats that
are up right now. We have another run that will
be up in New York. And so I'm telling people
put all your energy into these three seats because I
can't wait two years. Like I'm tired of him already,
so we need an opportunity to start stopping him. So
I do want governors like Pritzker to give people this
(20:24):
belief and this hope, and I want people to go
out and say, you know what, I don't have very
much money, but I think that it's worthwhile for me
to give my ten dollars to these people that are
running in Florida, to give money to whoever is going
to ultimately run here in New York. I think it's
worth my time to show up and actually knock on
some doors and talk to people and listen to people
and ask them why did you vote for Trump? And
(20:47):
Trump would still be your president? But don't you want
this to slow down a little bit. Don't you want
somebody to say, hey, wait a minute. We think that
it's important that social security still exists, and the only
thing that will stand between you and your social security
is potentially having a democratic House. And it doesn't mean
you're a Democrat, but it does mean that you believe
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in a democratic republic. And so I want us to
work these three seats right now because one of the
elections Florida will take place on April.
Speaker 4 (21:17):
First, So those are the guardrails that are in place
to protect you know, people like the federal workers from
what Elon Musk and Donald.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
Trumpet well, as it relates that to that part, the
guardrails are the courts. That's the only thing that we
have standing right now. And I'm concerned that ultimately the
High Court belongs to him. So I know he's trying
to get those cases up to the Supreme Court again,
get them to dismantle the constitution a bit, dismantle laws
(21:44):
a little bit. But the fact that they push back
on TikTok of all things like just forget the subject matter.
But ultimately, in a nine to zero decision when it
came down to TikTok, they said, oh, never mind, Like, no,
you can't do that. That will signed into law whether
you like it or not. It will sign its law,
and you can't just unilaterally overturn that. So I think
(22:06):
that we may have a little hope from them when
it comes down to things like once Congress appropriates something,
you can't do anything about it. Now here's the thing.
It'll never make it the Supreme Court in time because
this last funding bill runs out on March fourteenth. We
won't get to the Supreme Court by March fourteenth to
(22:26):
get a decision. But we potentially will have a new budget,
and that budget should be done because he does have
a Trump trifecta. It should be done in the image
of what it is that they want to deliver. So
we'll see if they can get it done. I don't know.
I think we're shutting down on March fourteenth.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
On March fourteenth, you think the government's gonna shut down?
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Yeah, I mean the last time we shut down was
under Trump. When we shut down I think at least
two times, and the longest shutdown we've ever had in
the history of this country came under Trump. And right
now they have a slimmer majority than they had when
I was in the hundred and eighteenth session. So right
now they only have they can only lose one vote.
(23:06):
One Republican vote can vote against it, So if all
Democrats show up and vote against it, which we should,
they can only lose one. Right now. I don't see
how they get it past, but we'll see they can
get it past the Senate. I don't see how they
get it past the House. Why do you think people
still love him so much?
Speaker 5 (23:26):
And I'm not talking about that I'm talking about, like us,
Like why are there some of us that still favor him?
Like why is he still so like he he has
such a high approval rate Trump.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
I don't know that. Well, I ain't gonna say you
got a high appropri rate. He is doing better in
his approvals than his people typically, like a lot of
black people.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Mean literally, they put out a poll and I think
his approval rating was fifty three percent.
Speaker 5 (23:54):
Talking about black people though, right, Yeah, so many that
I can't I can't.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
I can't explain it. I have no explanations. The only
thing that I can say is that Number one, I'm
happy to know that Trump is an anomaly. People continue
to try to be the next Trump. They are not right.
Like we've seen it with Desantus, he's not. We've seen
it with Vek Ramaswami, he's not. Elon Musk. His numbers
(24:21):
continue to drag him down. Right, for whatever reason, Elon's
numbers go down and Trumps still kind of linger about
the same orgo a little bit higher. I will say
that there is a cultural aspect to Trump that is
unique and unlike anything we've ever experienced. And I think
that was another failure that we had in the campaign
overall is to understand that he's different. He's different. This
(24:45):
is a guy who's had his name on buildings forever, sure,
and people have been like, oh, he owned it, Not really,
his name is just on it, right, And so he's
very good at creating this perception. He's created this perception
of I am that guy, right, and he literally became
the closest thing to Teflon done that we have seen, right,
(25:07):
like who has this many cases in this many jurisdictions?
And yeah, I know, but I'm just saying so, I
think that from a cultural aspect, like he used to
be talked about in rap songs and things like that,
I think it's hard for you to then say, oh, no,
he's a terrible person because there's been this kind of
(25:28):
aura around him that was created, which may have been
okay for TV, may have been okay for music, may
have been okay for casinos, but it ain't okay in
the Oval office. Like I need y'all to separate the two,
like I don't need it to be that everybody that
kind of walks in that lane is now somehow qualified
(25:49):
to be president of the United States, because that's it
takes different qualities, and I think that that's why it's
been so hard to kind of tear him down, is
because he's different. I don't think these people are necessary Republicans.
I don't think they're necessarily going over to that side.
I don't think they're necessarily MAGA. I think that they
are just Trumpers, like period. And I think Maga's is
(26:09):
supposed to be a movement. But I believe that once
he is out of the way, right like, once he's
out of the presidency, if he leaves, if he leaves Jesus,
because he decided he a king now. But if he
leaves the presidency, I don't see anybody else being able
to take up the mantle he already said. Jd Vance
ain't the one, Like I mean, there's nobody else that
(26:31):
will be able to take up that mantle because he
is unique. Child.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
What is what is on your break down? What's on
your shirt?
Speaker 4 (26:40):
Child?
Speaker 3 (26:41):
Yes? Yes, yes, So we dropped the child collection after
Nancy mays at it like she wanted to take me outside.
So with you, I don't have time.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
We gotta jump.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
You can't jumping.
Speaker 5 (27:09):
When she asked you, I'd like to take this outside.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
I graduate from the citadel, which is all military.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
Yeah, right, So d e I helped her just f
y I okay, because it didn't exist, and there were
people that did not want a woman in the institution.
But her father actually taught at the institution, and so
she wanted to be just like her dad, and so
they sued, they went to the courts so that she
(27:42):
could get in as a woman. And now she is
the very same woman that wants to do like a
bunch of the same immigrants to somehow get over here,
get their citizenship and then they like, forget everybody else
coming behind me. She is the same. And so she
claims that she's been a champion for women and that's
why she's against trans people. But she forgets that she
(28:03):
benefited from diversity, equity and inclusion like most white women,
because white women are the vast majority of the beneficiaries
of DEI policies. But that's all they is she But
when she said let's take it outside, you know, I
really want to be like, let's go now, I knew
that I couldn't because again they would have been trying
to expel me. And if the tables were turned, if
(28:26):
I had said that to her, oh oh, the Karen
would have been calling everybody to come through and come
grab me, and they would have had me on the
floor for an explosion for trying to incite violence against
another member of Congress literally in a committee hearing. But
instead they said, well, maybe she meant go outside for coffee.
(28:49):
I do be thinking that's what they said.
Speaker 4 (28:52):
I be thinking that these people are so old and
so culturally clue is that they don't understand.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
No, no, no, no no.
Speaker 4 (28:58):
And when he did it, no, and even when you
did your bad Bill Bush bodies at the guys like whatever, it's.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
The same guy, Nancy, I am not a child.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
Now.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
I do think that she is culturally unaware, even though
she's always bragging about how many black people she represents
in her district in South Carolina. Black people in South Carolina,
wake up, get rid up.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
We went to high school together.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
No, well she's anyway. I'm not gonna cuss you said
the economy she does, because South Carolina about to catch it,
just like all these other ones, all of them, they're
about to catch it the hardest. Like you think you're
quote unquote owning the Libs. But guess what New York
has money. Okay, guess what California has money? Right, the
(29:49):
ones that are broke and need the money, the New
York and California Bay into is you little red states
down south? The vast majority of y'all. Y'all are the
ones that are broken. Y'all are the ones that are
constantly bleeding population as well. Right, Like, we know that
these small states, like people are moving to the big cities,
which tend to be in the bluer states, right where
(30:11):
there are more opportunities. So but Nancy, you know, she
now wants to want to take it outside because they
going through all of that. No, she she just wants
to try to elevate her name and her status. So
she's allegedly talking about running for governor. Don't do it.
Don't do it, South Carolina. But if you look into her,
(30:34):
like she says so much staff that has resigned, she
is consistently being accused of all types of inappropriateness when
it comes to like sex stuff in general. So beyond her, well,
i'll just say that in committee right in that same hearing,
she was talking about quote unquote dicks with or chicks
(30:54):
with correct. Yeah, so she was doing like all that
kind of stuff. So she constantly like throws the word
around and committee and that kind of thing. But she's
also been accused of talking to staff about her sex
life and making them uncomfortable, and so she's had staff
resign alleging that she is very inappropriate.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
She did just say she was a victim of rape
and sexual abuse.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
He also did that with a lot of protections. So
people don't know that if you go on the house floor,
you can pretty much say anything and people can't suit you.
It's the debate clause. Yeah, the the oh, I forget
the other part of it. But anyway, what do you
mean speech and debate? Speech and debate clause means that
when you are in the chamber and you're on the
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floor and you say certain things, I can say something
defamatory and I can't be sued.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
So the theory is this is that she decided, now
that she's getting ready for this gubernatorial she decided to
kind of head off some potential bad headlines by going
onto the house floor and accusing not one, not two,
but three men of sexually abusing her and recording it
(32:10):
and drugging her. So the thought is that maybe there's
a sex safe that's about to come out, and so
if she went on the floor, they can't do anything
about it. Now she's not filed charges against any of them.
She just went on the floor, made these accusations, but
did not go and file a case against anybody. Now
(32:30):
she files a case against somebody and she's found to
be lying, that is a crime. But she could go
on the floor and accuse them of whatever and they
can't sue her. So interesting place to go and report, most.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
Jasmine somebody else?
Speaker 5 (32:54):
Is it true to somebody else that works for another
sitting member? They had call than that they bet they
was betting on a fight.
Speaker 3 (33:02):
Oh yeah, they wanted to see it like that. I
don't know who it was, but we have Capitol police.
We have the Capitol police following up on that because
they called during working hours on a house phone and
they were so smart that they didn't realize that all
calls made on house phones are recorded, so it is recorded.
(33:23):
We know which member's office it came from. It was
a Republican out of Texas whose office it came from.
And they they yeah, so they called my office and
was like, yeah, this is what we want to see.
Blah blah, blah blah blah. We're trying to place a bet.
Some random staffer called my office. It's the audacity for
(33:45):
I can see why.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
They would want to see it, But this is what
I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (33:48):
Right, Do you think that Congress could get more done
if y'all actually did their hands every now? Andy, No,
just real quick, real quick, thirty seconds then get it out.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
No.
Speaker 4 (34:00):
I do want to ask you this guy. I know
you got to go. Why don't Democrats sit down? Chuck
Schuman and Hakim Jefferies. They all represent the old way
of doing things that don't work anymore? People like yourself, AOC,
y'all know how to communicate, y'all know how to message.
Why don't they let y'all be front tracing in the party?
What are they holding on to? I know their positions,
but forget the position. If they're not connecting with people,
(34:21):
why are they the ones that are out front but
not y'all?
Speaker 3 (34:24):
What do you mean outfront? I think that I think
you're you're referencing myself and AOC because we have been
out front.
Speaker 4 (34:32):
No, definitely, But when they talk about actual democratic leadership
and who the leaders are, always always point to them
because of the position that they're in.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
But to me, that's just the position.
Speaker 3 (34:41):
I get it. And and both of us ran for
leadership positions and we were rejected by our but.
Speaker 4 (34:48):
That's because of those that's because of those people who
represent an old way of doing things.
Speaker 3 (34:53):
I get it.
Speaker 4 (34:53):
If they open their eyes and actually see what's going
on in the world and who's connecting, who can lead
us into the next generation.
Speaker 1 (34:59):
Clearly it should be you. When people like AOC and leadership,
I get it.
Speaker 3 (35:02):
I will say that Hakim decided that I can't speak
for the Senate because I don't know what all was
going on over there. But Hakim decided to start a
rapid Response team, which is something that I proposed when
I was running to become our communications director, and so
I am a part of that rapid Response team, and
so it's just now starting to kind of take shape.
(35:24):
And so basically my job is to officially kind of
get out there and do some videos. I'm really supposed
to do some lives with some other people that are
on that rapid Response team, so that like when things
happen in real time, we're responding. But another thing, I mean,
there's just a lot that we could be doing. And
I'm hoping that we get a lot more aggressive, right
(35:45):
because I.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
Think them, well, the need to get more aggressive.
Speaker 3 (35:50):
Well I'll say, well, well, I'll say, is that like,
for instance, you know, there's been this kind of attitude
of we can't deal with all the stuff that he
got coming out, like we're not gonna be able to
And I get that to a certain extent, but I
do think that at a very minimum, it provides some
semblance of comfort and confidence for the American people when
(36:13):
they see us pushing back every single day. Yes, sure,
and it may not be every single thing that he
does in a day, but pushing back on like the
thing of the day, right, Like we literally need to
be like, okay, so this is the dumb thing for
the day, right, Like just so a little even if
it's five minutes, like this is the big one for
the day, right, and we go after it. And so
(36:34):
I think that we do have to get more aggressive
and decide every single day like this is just what
it is. Like I told my staff, I'm like, y'all
had it good last term. I know y'all thought y'all didn't,
but I'm like, we actually now have to work ten
times harder than we did before, because we've got to
make sure people understand how bad these policies are and
what's happening. If we don't communicate it in real time,
(36:56):
then we're doomed. That was the problem even when we
were trying to get the White House back, is that
we did not communicate in real time the good things
we were doing. Now they're like, oh, wait a minute,
those wait minutes. So the overdraft fees, that was Joe
Biden that reduced it so it wasn't more than five
dollars per overdraft. And now the Republicans have filed a
(37:16):
bill saying, you know what, we want those overdraft fees
to go back up, because again they're looking out for
the rich people, not the people who was struggling. Who
has overdraftees? Is it the rich people or is the
people live in check to check? So the people they
kept saying, oh, no, he's for the middle class. No
he's not, No he's not. And they tried to convince
you that the Democrats had done nothing, but they had.
(37:38):
They had consistently done things for the middle class. It's
just that. And so when even when Democrats are like, oh,
we're not the party of the middle class anymore. Yes
we are. Our policies are clear because overdraft fees, that's
not for rich people. But now it is about to
be for rich people. You know why because again we're
seeing a government that wants to prey on those that
are struggling so that others at the top can benefit
(38:02):
to some ridiculous amount of money. And that's what we're
about to go through. So I'm just like, listen, if
you were broke and thought he was your guy, well
God bless you.
Speaker 1 (38:10):
All right, Jeffers can never talk like that.
Speaker 4 (38:12):
I just want you to know that you can never
speak to you know that.
Speaker 2 (38:17):
Thank you, Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett. We appreciate, appreciate, thank you
so much. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, Wake that
ass up in the morning.
Speaker 1 (38:26):
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