# Karmelo Trial Testimony Raises Questions. Elijah McClain Convictions Reversed. Black Jobs Gap.

An episode of [#RolandMartinUnfiltered](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1434424449), 6 Jun 2026, 2 h 24 min.

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6.5.2026 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: Karmelo Trial Testimony Raises Questions. Elijah McClain Convictions Reversed. Black Jobs Gap. _ For free and unbiased Medicare help, dial (724) 264-8281 to speak with my trusted partner, Chapter, or go to https://askchapter.org/roland *Paid Partnership* _ In the Karmelo Anthony trial, witnesses testified about what they saw just before the fatal stabbing. Many say that Austin made the first move, but Karmelo is being accused of provoking the situation. Legal analyst Thelma Anderson will join us to recap today's testimony. A Colorado community is in shock following an appeals court decision that reversed the homicide convictions of two former paramedics who injected Elijah McClain with a lethal dose of ketamine. Four former Alabama State basketball players have been declared permanently ineligible after the NCAA found they participated in a scheme to fix a 2024 game. Orange County, Florida, Mayor and Democratic candidate for governor, Jerry Demings, has suspended his campaign after being diagnosed with prostate cancer. Ohio Congresswoman Shontel Brown lit into Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins about the rising number of farm bankruptcies. And job numbers were released today. While the black unemployment rate has decreased, it remains twice as high as the white unemployment rate. Economist Morgan Harper will be joining us to explain these numbers. Black Star Network Partner: Chapter For free and unbiased Medicare help, dial (724) 264-8281 to speak with my trusted partner, Chapter, or go to https://askchapter.org/roland *Paid Partnership* Chapter and its affiliates are not connected with or endorsed by any government entity or the federal Medicare program. Chapter Advisory, LLC represents Medicare Advantage HMO, PPO, and PFFS organizations and stand alone prescription drug plans that have a Medicare contract. Enrollment depends on the plan’s contract renewal. While we have a database of every Medicare plan nationwide and can help you to search among all plans, we have contracts with many but not all plans. As a result, we do not offer every plan available in your area. Currently we represent 50 organizations which offer 18,160 products nationwide. We search and recommend all plans, even those we don’t directly offer. You can contact a licensed Chapter agent to find out the number of products available in your specific area. Please contact Medicare.gov, 1-800-Medicare, or your local State Health Insurance Program (SHIP) to get information on all of your options. ____ Download the Black Star Network app at http://www.blackstarnetwork.com! We're on iOS, AppleTV, Android, AndroidTV, Roku, FireTV, XBox and SamsungTV. The #BlackStarNetwork is a news reporting platform covered under Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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[4:22] Speaker 11: Coming up and rolling markin Unfortunate streaming live on the
[4:25] Speaker 11: Black Star Network, we will have the latest indie Camella
[4:29] Speaker 11: Anthony trial taking place in Collin County, Texas.
[4:32] Speaker 2: Also on today's show, we'll deal with the issue of.
[4:38] Speaker 11: Four former Alabama state basketball players man declared permanently ineligible
[4:44] Speaker 11: as the NCAA founder, They threw a.
[4:47] Speaker 2: Game for five hundred dollars each.
[4:50] Speaker 11: Orange County, Florida, Merritt and Democratic Canada for Governor Jerry
[4:53] Speaker 11: Dimmings has suspended that campaign, being diagnosed with plotstate cancer.
[4:58] Speaker 11: Ohio Colins women Shan Till Brown live into Agricultural Secretary
[5:02] Speaker 11: Brook Rowlins about the rosy number of farm bankruptcies and
[5:05] Speaker 11: job numbers were released today.
[5:07] Speaker 2: The black unemployment rate has decreased, but it is steel
[5:11] Speaker 2: high as all get out.
[5:11] Speaker 11: Economist Morgan Harper will join us, and it's time to
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[6:21] Speaker 11: Fourth day of the Carmelo anthony trial in Texas, and
[6:24] Speaker 11: before the second day of testimony could even begin, Judge
[6:27] Speaker 11: John Roach Junior had to remove at least three people
[6:29] Speaker 11: from the courthouse. According to local media reports, the woman
[6:32] Speaker 11: directed harsh words at a shrifish deputy. A blogger from
[6:35] Speaker 11: North Carolina was removed for leegedly calling a shrif's deputy
[6:38] Speaker 11: a racial slur, and a third person may have been
[6:40] Speaker 11: violating court protocols prohibiting cell phone use in recording in
[6:44] Speaker 11: the building. The state prosecutor showed the jury the four
[6:47] Speaker 11: minute video of Carmelo's arrest, which included footage for the
[6:51] Speaker 11: body cameras of Officer at Warter Cortez, the school resource
[6:54] Speaker 11: officer for the Frisco Police Department. In the video of
[6:56] Speaker 11: Carmelo can be heard crying and admitting to stabbing Austin
[6:59] Speaker 11: may Calf, but he claims to the officer, I told
[7:02] Speaker 11: him not to put his hands on me. And students
[7:05] Speaker 11: who witnessed the incident say it was Austin who shoved
[7:08] Speaker 11: Carmelo first, but it was Carmelo's fault. Carmela maintains that
[7:14] Speaker 11: he acted in self defense. Legal analyst thelm and Anderson
[7:17] Speaker 11: has been following the case. Jones is now from Dallas,
[7:20] Speaker 11: so okay explain that which is quite confusing. That is,
[7:25] Speaker 11: he tells the officers that he put that Austin touched
[7:29] Speaker 11: him first. Students say that Austin shoved Carmelo first, But
[7:35] Speaker 11: it's Carmelo's fault.
[7:39] Speaker 4: Roland.
[7:40] Speaker 5: That's ridiculous.
[7:41] Speaker 16: And that's the issue that we're having with the coverage
[7:45] Speaker 16: in this particular trial. The law does not state it
[7:50] Speaker 16: becomes the victim's fault of an initial assault because the
[7:56] Speaker 16: person pushed them, but before they pushed them had words.
[8:01] Speaker 16: Words do not equate to a person having the right
[8:04] Speaker 16: to touch you unless the individual may have initiated of
[8:10] Speaker 16: a threat of your life.
[8:12] Speaker 5: But that's not the case here.
[8:14] Speaker 16: That's the contradictory that we have been experiencing with this
[8:17] Speaker 16: particular trial or with this coverage, is the foolery of
[8:22] Speaker 16: victimizing the individual that had to protect themselves.
[8:27] Speaker 2: Well, you know when you have people, you know, you
[8:30] Speaker 2: got white supervises. Matt Walsh and others. They have been
[8:33] Speaker 2: writing this.
[8:34] Speaker 11: He goes Anthony went into a tent where he didn't belong,
[8:37] Speaker 11: was told fifteen times to leave and refuse, then pull
[8:40] Speaker 11: out a knife and stab someone to death. Not only
[8:42] Speaker 11: is he clearly guilty in the self defense claim or
[8:44] Speaker 11: total force, he should be facing the death pill on
[8:46] Speaker 11: the first degree murder. Again, this is the stuff they're
[8:48] Speaker 11: throwing out there, but the reality is was was it
[8:56] Speaker 11: the other young man who was stabbed and killed. Wasn't
[9:00] Speaker 11: Austin told by the coach not to even show up?
[9:04] Speaker 15: And that's another.
[9:07] Speaker 16: Another confusing issue because let me just say this, because
[9:11] Speaker 16: they like to say that he was told. A child
[9:14] Speaker 16: cannot tell you to move. A child does not have
[9:17] Speaker 16: the right or authority to tell you to go anywhere.
[9:19] Speaker 16: No coach told Carmelo that he was not allowed to
[9:22] Speaker 16: be on there. Why was reigning and on that day
[9:25] Speaker 16: there was a tornado watch, So you, Austin and anyone
[9:31] Speaker 16: else that was a child had no authority to tell
[9:34] Speaker 16: anyone to leave.
[9:35] Speaker 2: But when we were.
[9:36] Speaker 16: Talking about the the statements that are being made that
[9:40] Speaker 16: said that, oh, the coach told Austin not to be there,
[9:46] Speaker 16: it's six seven right now, because they either we know
[9:50] Speaker 16: because I did not hear that testimony for that coach
[9:53] Speaker 16: saying that he was not allowed to be there, because
[9:55] Speaker 16: there were text messages of this particular coach that was
[9:58] Speaker 16: entered there said that he to Austin to be a leader.
[10:02] Speaker 5: So it's real fuzzy on that area.
[10:06] Speaker 16: I don't even know if it came out in the
[10:08] Speaker 16: trial that he was supposed to be there or he wasn't.
[10:12] Speaker 11: Well and again it's all of this sort of back
[10:15] Speaker 11: and forth, and you know what just stands out is
[10:20] Speaker 11: this whole idea of Austin approaching him and telling him
[10:25] Speaker 11: he needs to go. He doesn't have the authority to
[10:27] Speaker 11: tell anyone they need to go. And the question then becomes,
[10:31] Speaker 11: did Austin put his hands on Carmelo first?
[10:36] Speaker 16: That's the ultimate question, because what they also don't want
[10:40] Speaker 16: to talk about is the weight difference.
[10:43] Speaker 15: Carmelo is one hundred and thirty pounds.
[10:46] Speaker 16: Austin was two thirty or a little over two thirty
[10:50] Speaker 16: when he attacked Carmelo.
[10:52] Speaker 5: That's one hundred pounds heavier.
[10:54] Speaker 16: Also, they don't want to talk about Hunter participating, the
[10:57] Speaker 16: brother who's alive, the other bully participating in targeting Carmelo
[11:03] Speaker 16: to tell him to leave. So when you put the
[11:05] Speaker 16: body composition of these two big boys, that's over four
[11:08] Speaker 16: hundred something pounds to an African American.
[11:12] Speaker 5: Boy that's one hundred and thirty.
[11:13] Speaker 16: So when you look at that and then you're telling
[11:16] Speaker 16: someone that they have to go when you have no authority,
[11:18] Speaker 16: that is because in their home, they tell them they
[11:21] Speaker 16: get to talk to individuals that look of a different color. Anyway,
[11:25] Speaker 16: that they want to, so they just display what they
[11:27] Speaker 16: have been taught. Carmelo displayed respect, and he said, put
[11:30] Speaker 16: your hand if you put your hands on me, or
[11:33] Speaker 16: put your hands on me. And see that's typical. That's
[11:38] Speaker 16: to tell you don't touch me. You don't have the
[11:40] Speaker 16: authority to touch me. But when you have individuals that
[11:44] Speaker 16: grow up in a household that teach you to treat
[11:46] Speaker 16: African Americans like that, because his father is indicative of
[11:50] Speaker 16: saying racial slurs, the apple don't fall too far from
[11:54] Speaker 16: the tree.
[11:56] Speaker 11: All right, Well, we certainly will continue to see what
[11:58] Speaker 11: happens in this case film and we shill appreciate it.
[12:01] Speaker 2: Thanks a lot, Thank you. All Right, folks, gonna go
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[13:47] Speaker 11: All right, folks, I'm going to bring in my panel
[13:50] Speaker 11: to talk about this case uh joining us today when Gudician,
[13:55] Speaker 11: co founder of Politicking, joining US from DC, Matt Manning
[13:58] Speaker 11: CIVI writs Atorney out of Corpors Christi in Hotel hosts
[14:00] Speaker 11: with afric History History Network show out of Detroit, Matt
[14:04] Speaker 11: so In Looking at this case, obviously Carmelo's defense team
[14:08] Speaker 11: is saying that it was self defense. Prosecutors are saying, well,
[14:13] Speaker 11: he's carrying a knife in his backpack. Uh and and
[14:17] Speaker 11: so they have to establish, you know, with the charging
[14:22] Speaker 11: him with that, that that he's guilty of this. So
[14:26] Speaker 11: what is the self defense claim?
[14:28] Speaker 2: In Texas?
[14:32] Speaker 18: Self defense is appropriate under certain circumstances, the primary being
[14:38] Speaker 18: you're in a place where you're allowed to be so
[14:40] Speaker 18: somewhere in the public or your home. Like you've heard
[14:42] Speaker 18: of the castle doctrine, and the law basically says that
[14:47] Speaker 18: the person has a reasonable belief that either deadly force
[14:51] Speaker 18: or force is necessary to defend themselves or to defend
[14:55] Speaker 18: a third person. Now, in this particular case, I haven't
[14:59] Speaker 18: watched any of the evidence, but I was having a
[15:01] Speaker 18: conversation with a colleague yesterday who's asking me what I
[15:04] Speaker 18: thought about it, and I told him a couple things
[15:06] Speaker 18: that I haven't heard opined yet.
[15:07] Speaker 19: The first is the way it works at the end
[15:09] Speaker 19: of a trial is you get a jury instruction.
[15:12] Speaker 18: So the jury's given paperwork that says here's how the
[15:15] Speaker 18: law works, here's how it applies it.
[15:17] Speaker 19: If you believe this, then this. If you don't believe this,
[15:19] Speaker 19: then that right.
[15:20] Speaker 18: And the way you get a self defense instruction number
[15:23] Speaker 18: one is you show that there's at least a scintilla
[15:26] Speaker 18: of evidence that generates the idea this might be self defense.
[15:30] Speaker 18: The reason I think that's a really interesting academic question
[15:33] Speaker 18: in this case is this is a public stadium from
[15:36] Speaker 18: my understanding, and the allegation is that this occurred under
[15:40] Speaker 18: a tent that was being privately controlled. But what my
[15:42] Speaker 18: colleague and I were talking about yesterday is whether Metcalf
[15:46] Speaker 18: and his people, so to speak, could even have a
[15:50] Speaker 18: private space at a public venue, right, Because if they can,
[15:54] Speaker 18: then there's an argument that Anthony would be trespassing arguably, right.
[16:00] Speaker 19: That's what the prosecutors are going to allege.
[16:02] Speaker 18: If they can't have a private space in a public space,
[16:05] Speaker 18: then it stands to reason anywhere Carmelo Anthony is, he's
[16:09] Speaker 18: able to avail himself of the self defense instruction. That's
[16:13] Speaker 18: a super important issue in this case, just like the case.
[16:16] Speaker 18: I just tried two weeks ago self defense case, and
[16:18] Speaker 18: that was the big fight there. Do we get an
[16:20] Speaker 18: instruction or not? So I think that's going to be
[16:23] Speaker 18: the important thing here. I think that Thelma was also
[16:26] Speaker 18: speaking to an important thing. Reasonableness is looked at from
[16:29] Speaker 18: the relative size of the people involved. So if one
[16:32] Speaker 18: person is much larger than the other person, it might
[16:35] Speaker 18: lend to the idea that the person who used the
[16:37] Speaker 18: force was reasonable in their belief that force was necessary.
[16:41] Speaker 18: But Texas is a stand in your ground state. So
[16:43] Speaker 18: the important thing is if you're somewhere you're allowed to
[16:45] Speaker 18: be and are reasonable in your belief, you don't have
[16:49] Speaker 18: to retreat, which is very important because that could mean,
[16:51] Speaker 18: you know, if you reasonably believe you're being faced with force,
[16:54] Speaker 18: even if you're in a public space, you don't have
[16:56] Speaker 18: to take a single step back. You can use the
[16:58] Speaker 18: force necessary to defend yourself, and then a jury can
[17:02] Speaker 18: opine that you were legally justified.
[17:03] Speaker 19: And that's really going to be the question in this case.
[17:06] Speaker 11: Well, and also what jumps out here is Okay, so
[17:10] Speaker 11: they're under this tent and prosecutors are saying he was
[17:15] Speaker 11: told to leave. Well, well, first of all, if if
[17:18] Speaker 11: no adult was telling him to leave, then the question is,
[17:22] Speaker 11: who is the right to tell somebody to leave? They said,
[17:25] Speaker 11: impending whether was coming. You're standing under a tent?
[17:31] Speaker 2: Is that for me?
[17:31] Speaker 7: Really?
[17:32] Speaker 2: Yes?
[17:33] Speaker 17: Oh?
[17:33] Speaker 18: Yes, yeah, I mean I think that's a very fair question, right,
[17:36] Speaker 18: I mean, especially because these are minors, so you know,
[17:39] Speaker 18: do they have to adhere to the instructions of another
[17:41] Speaker 18: person to leave? And I think being completely fair in
[17:45] Speaker 18: the analysis, I think there's also an argument that even
[17:47] Speaker 18: if you're in a public space, you can have a
[17:49] Speaker 18: privately controlled, you know spot. Like the example I gave
[17:53] Speaker 18: my colleague yesterday is you know, look, if you go
[17:55] Speaker 18: to Cowboys Stadium and you go tailgate and you have
[17:57] Speaker 18: a tent, I mean, that's private property. But let's let's
[18:00] Speaker 18: say it's public right if it's publicly accessible, I mean,
[18:03] Speaker 18: and somebody tries to come into your tent and you
[18:05] Speaker 18: use deadly force. Every day of the week, you're gonna say,
[18:07] Speaker 18: this is our our you know area, and this person
[18:11] Speaker 18: was not given authority to be here, so we have
[18:13] Speaker 18: every right to expel them from that location. But I
[18:16] Speaker 18: think that public private question is a very important one
[18:19] Speaker 18: in this case, because if you're a public stadium. I
[18:21] Speaker 18: don't think you get to cordon off a space of
[18:24] Speaker 18: it as being private for you.
[18:26] Speaker 11: And actually in that case, but the freezer right there,
[18:29] Speaker 11: because even with that particular example, Okay, so you so
[18:33] Speaker 11: let's just say, so I'm not gonna I'm gonna not
[18:36] Speaker 11: gonna use cowboy statem. I'm gonna say, if you got
[18:38] Speaker 11: a Texans game, you at NR, and you're at NRG
[18:41] Speaker 11: Stadium and you're tailgating, well, first let's say it's it's
[18:45] Speaker 11: my tailgate. Let's just say it's my tailgate, it's my tent,
[18:50] Speaker 11: I'm the one doing it. And let's say there's somebody
[18:53] Speaker 11: who's there who you know was invited. Uh, well, if
[18:57] Speaker 11: somebody comes in who's uninvited, the question then then goes,
[19:01] Speaker 11: does the person who was invited have the right to
[19:04] Speaker 11: intervene and say you got to go.
[19:08] Speaker 2: Now?
[19:08] Speaker 19: If it's a great question.
[19:09] Speaker 11: So it's again, so if it's me, if it's if
[19:12] Speaker 11: it's my tailgate, And this is just sort of how
[19:15] Speaker 11: I'm looking at this here. I'm thinking that if that
[19:17] Speaker 11: if you have a tent and it's the school's tent,
[19:21] Speaker 11: the person who actually has the authority to say here
[19:25] Speaker 11: Nate is the coach or let's say, the principal, not
[19:29] Speaker 11: just anybody on the team. You get to decide and
[19:33] Speaker 11: you get to tell somebody, hey, you got to get
[19:35] Speaker 11: out of here. That to me, I think also hopefully
[19:38] Speaker 11: you would think that that's going to be a part
[19:39] Speaker 11: of it, part of this conversation among the jury. Who
[19:44] Speaker 11: has the authority to tell somebody, uh, they you know,
[19:47] Speaker 11: they can leave? And then even if someone tells, has
[19:51] Speaker 11: lard tell you to leave, do you have a right
[19:53] Speaker 11: to push them, shove them, put your hands on them.
[19:58] Speaker 7: I don't think you do.
[19:59] Speaker 18: And I think it's really important about that example is
[20:02] Speaker 18: I think, you know, if the school is the one
[20:05] Speaker 18: that has the tent, then the kids don't get to
[20:07] Speaker 18: determine who comes in there out. But by that same token,
[20:09] Speaker 18: I think if somebody had let's say, this wasn't the scenario,
[20:12] Speaker 18: but Carmelo Anthony just got a criminal trespass, got arrested
[20:15] Speaker 18: for criminal trespass. I think he beat it every day
[20:17] Speaker 18: of the week because the prosecutor would say, you're not
[20:19] Speaker 18: really controlling this space, right. That's predicated on the idea
[20:23] Speaker 18: that you have the exclusive right of control to the space.
[20:26] Speaker 18: And I think that's what you're getting at. I don't
[20:27] Speaker 18: think these kids could control it. I do think, you know,
[20:31] Speaker 18: maybe he could have been arrested for a breach of
[20:32] Speaker 18: the peace or something else, but not anything predicated on
[20:35] Speaker 18: the idea that he was trespassing somewhere. And that's really
[20:38] Speaker 18: the underlying issue here. Was he in a place he
[20:41] Speaker 18: wasn't allowed to be. But I think that from a
[20:43] Speaker 18: legal standpoint, that's really the important question is, you know,
[20:46] Speaker 18: was he legally allowed to be there?
[20:48] Speaker 2: I think he was.
[20:48] Speaker 18: I think if I'm a juror and if I'm the
[20:50] Speaker 18: defense lawyer, I'm saying, this is a public stadium. You know,
[20:52] Speaker 18: kids don't get to decide where other kids don't get
[20:54] Speaker 18: to traverse. And because of that, he gets the self
[20:57] Speaker 18: defense instruction every day of the week. And then all
[20:59] Speaker 18: those other things go to the reasonableness and whether it
[21:02] Speaker 18: was an appropriate use of force.
[21:04] Speaker 11: This is when Cony of the folks at Court TV
[21:09] Speaker 11: posted this, not sure if his audio on a guy,
[21:13] Speaker 11: so you.
[21:13] Speaker 20: Can turn it up, Carmelo Anthony, Okay.
[21:15] Speaker 2: Someone's going to play from the beginning. Listen to this, and.
[21:18] Speaker 20: This is a miner, a witness that was sitting under
[21:20] Speaker 20: the Memorial High pop up tent with his team near
[21:23] Speaker 20: the victim. Austin metcalf the suspect, Carmelo Anthony, was from
[21:27] Speaker 20: Centennial High and was sitting under the Memorial High tent.
[21:30] Speaker 20: Austin told Carmelo that he needed to move out from
[21:33] Speaker 20: under their team's tent. Carmelo grabbed his bag, opened it,
[21:37] Speaker 20: reached inside, and proceeded to tell Austin, quote, touch me
[21:40] Speaker 20: and see what happens.
[21:42] Speaker 14: No one really thought Carmelo really.
[21:44] Speaker 20: Had any weapons in his bag, and Austin proceeded to
[21:47] Speaker 20: touch Carmelo. Then Carmelo told Austin to punch him and
[21:51] Speaker 20: see what happens. A short time later, Austin grabbed Carmelo
[21:54] Speaker 20: to tell him to move, and Carmelo pulled out what
[21:57] Speaker 20: a witness recalled as this witness recalled as a black
[22:01] Speaker 20: knife and stabbed Austin once in the chest and then
[22:04] Speaker 20: ran away. Let's talk about what that statement means. While
[22:08] Speaker 20: sitting on the bleachers under a Memorial High tent, when
[22:11] Speaker 20: another male he did not know walked over and sat
[22:14] Speaker 20: under the tent. That would be Carmelo Anthony. Austin told
[22:17] Speaker 20: this male that since he didn't go to memorial he
[22:19] Speaker 20: had to leave the tent. Austin and the Mail went
[22:22] Speaker 20: back and forth. Then Austin stood up and pushed the
[22:25] Speaker 20: Mail to get him out of the tent. During the
[22:28] Speaker 20: time of the arguing, the Mail was reaching around in
[22:30] Speaker 20: the bag that he had. It was at this time
[22:32] Speaker 20: that the Mail took out the knife and stabbed.
[22:34] Speaker 14: Austin and then left the scene.
[22:36] Speaker 20: They're substantially the same mark in terms of what they
[22:39] Speaker 20: are saying. There are a few differences, But what's your
[22:42] Speaker 20: take on whether or not from those witnesses freeze that.
[22:45] Speaker 11: Right there and when cony You know, this is all
[22:50] Speaker 11: you know, all the back and forth, and at the
[22:54] Speaker 11: end of the day, who's the aggressor even based upon
[22:57] Speaker 11: those witnesses, Austin was the aggressor in this case, Yeah, I.
[23:04] Speaker 4: Think he was Roland. And I think the sad part
[23:07] Speaker 4: about this is that I think if Roles were reversed
[23:09] Speaker 4: we would be having a totally different conversation. I think
[23:13] Speaker 4: for those who don't know the races of Carmelo and Austin,
[23:18] Speaker 4: I will let you guess, but I think there's something
[23:22] Speaker 4: really nefarious about feeling like there's an ownership or control
[23:26] Speaker 4: over a tent or a piece of land that doesn't
[23:29] Speaker 4: actually belong to you or anyone, right, that's number one.
[23:33] Speaker 4: Number two, I think starting with physical aggression is also inappropriate. Now,
[23:39] Speaker 4: whether or not the actions that followed after were appropriate,
[23:44] Speaker 4: I mean I'd argue that they weren't. But I think
[23:46] Speaker 4: the bigger question, and the legal question, is was it
[23:50] Speaker 4: in self defense or was it not? And I think
[23:52] Speaker 4: if someone pushes you first, you do have the argument
[23:55] Speaker 4: of self defense. The bigger challenge that I'm struggling with
[23:58] Speaker 4: Roland is the fact that despite the five hundred and
[24:02] Speaker 4: eighty nine prostective jurors, they couldn't find one black juror
[24:08] Speaker 4: to be selected in the murder trial. I mean, I
[24:12] Speaker 4: don't know about you all, but to me, that's diabolical.
[24:15] Speaker 4: I think that really, again, it's reflective of the state
[24:19] Speaker 4: of this country. I mean, you're telling me that there's
[24:22] Speaker 4: not one black person that was fit to serve on
[24:25] Speaker 4: that trial because they're saying it's not a racially charged trial, but.
[24:28] Speaker 2: We all know that it is.
[24:30] Speaker 4: And so the concerning thing to me is is Carmelo
[24:33] Speaker 4: Anthony going to actually get a fair trial? And I'll
[24:36] Speaker 4: let y'all be the judge of that.
[24:38] Speaker 2: Michael.
[24:41] Speaker 7: All right, Roland, So I saw your coverage yesterday.
[24:45] Speaker 6: Excellent coverage, excellent analysis from attorney Thelma, and appreciate this
[24:52] Speaker 6: coverage because we're not getting this in mainstream media. One
[24:56] Speaker 6: of the things that Thema brought out yes today, if
[25:00] Speaker 6: I heard her correctly, was that Carmelo was surrounded by
[25:07] Speaker 6: four teens and was it fourteens that assaulted him? I
[25:12] Speaker 6: know it was Austin metcalf that pushed them, but it
[25:15] Speaker 6: sounded like she said he was actually being assaulted by
[25:18] Speaker 6: four people as opposed to just one. Did I hear
[25:22] Speaker 6: that correctly yesterday?
[25:23] Speaker 11: Roland, Well, it's so you have different different accounts. For instance,
[25:30] Speaker 11: you have the folks who testify today said there were
[25:34] Speaker 11: several who were around there, and so that's the whole point.
[25:36] Speaker 11: I mean, remember, you had a number of athletes who
[25:39] Speaker 11: were under this one tent. So when you say surround, well,
[25:44] Speaker 11: if you're under a tent, you're sort of.
[25:45] Speaker 2: All in this all area.
[25:48] Speaker 7: Okay, Well, we know he was out numbered.
[25:50] Speaker 6: And also looking at the coverage from local media, because
[25:55] Speaker 6: I looked at some news coverage from local media, Austin
[25:59] Speaker 6: out weighed Carmelo by eighty three pounds according to one
[26:03] Speaker 6: local news account as well. So so far, this sounds
[26:10] Speaker 6: like this was self defense. And it was also brought
[26:14] Speaker 6: out that Carmelo only stabbed him one time, and he
[26:18] Speaker 6: was the only person that Carmelo stabbed as well, so
[26:22] Speaker 6: it didn't appear like there was some type of revenge
[26:27] Speaker 6: that Carmelo was trying to get. He's trying to attack
[26:30] Speaker 6: multiple people. He was defending himself against the person who
[26:35] Speaker 6: pushed him.
[26:36] Speaker 7: And as it came out in.
[26:37] Speaker 6: Court today from witnesses, Austin did push Carmelo first.
[26:41] Speaker 7: So we'll see how this turns out.
[26:44] Speaker 6: But the other thing quickly, I was reading the analysis
[26:48] Speaker 6: dealing with the three black female educators that were struck
[26:52] Speaker 6: from the jury pool, and it said that the prosecutor
[27:00] Speaker 6: was saying that they were struck because the fatal incident
[27:04] Speaker 6: took place at the school sponsored athletic function involving school
[27:08] Speaker 6: the school age children, and they didn't want teachers on
[27:11] Speaker 6: the jury. Now, my thing would be, okay, would you
[27:14] Speaker 6: want a coach on the jury, say it was a
[27:16] Speaker 6: white male coach, would you let the white male coach
[27:18] Speaker 6: on the jury. That sounds like a reach to me.
[27:21] Speaker 6: I'm sorry, Well, an attorney, that sounds like a reach
[27:23] Speaker 6: to me.
[27:25] Speaker 11: Well, these are things that we often see in these cases.
[27:29] Speaker 11: And Matt again, the prosecutor said, oh no, that they
[27:34] Speaker 11: had other reasons why they struck three teachers who were
[27:37] Speaker 11: all black from me on that jury.
[27:40] Speaker 19: Can I speak to that real quick?
[27:42] Speaker 2: Yeah?
[27:42] Speaker 19: Yeah, so you know, to keep it really short.
[27:45] Speaker 18: Ironically, most defense lawyers, me included, don't generally like teachers
[27:49] Speaker 18: on juries because teachers usually have no issue punishing. So
[27:53] Speaker 18: I'm surprised they said they didn't want teachers on that jury.
[27:56] Speaker 18: On that jury, I just tried a case a couple
[27:58] Speaker 18: of weeks ago. I had a teach on there, and
[28:00] Speaker 18: I was leary about her being on there for that
[28:03] Speaker 18: very reason. But the other thing I wanted to explain
[28:05] Speaker 18: very quickly is yes, per se, not having black people
[28:09] Speaker 18: on the jury does make you question the veracity of
[28:12] Speaker 18: the jury, especially if they find somebody guilty. That's what
[28:15] Speaker 18: happened in my scenario. We didn't have any black people
[28:17] Speaker 18: who made it on the jury. But the thing people
[28:19] Speaker 18: need to know is, well, a jury selection, you don't
[28:21] Speaker 18: pick the people on the jury. You pick the people
[28:24] Speaker 18: you want to get rid of, and you get left
[28:26] Speaker 18: with whoever's left from the jury. So it creates a
[28:28] Speaker 18: problem when you have a county that doesn't have a
[28:30] Speaker 18: lot of black people who are going to be on
[28:32] Speaker 18: the jury panel to begin with. Now, of course there
[28:35] Speaker 18: are prosecutors who historically have used racial reasons to get
[28:40] Speaker 18: rid of black.
[28:40] Speaker 19: People, There's no question with that.
[28:42] Speaker 18: But even in my own case, I only had four
[28:44] Speaker 18: people on a panel of one hundred, and it shook
[28:47] Speaker 18: out such that the challenges for cause and peremptory challenges
[28:51] Speaker 18: made it where we didn't end up with the black
[28:52] Speaker 18: person on the jury. And as much as I hate that,
[28:54] Speaker 18: part of that is how the process works. So it
[28:58] Speaker 18: is often nefarious, but it's often just a numbers situation.
[29:01] Speaker 18: And I can't speak to what that is here, but
[29:03] Speaker 18: I know Collin County is I think north of Dallas,
[29:05] Speaker 18: correct me from there it is. I don't think it's
[29:07] Speaker 18: a very there's not a big black population.
[29:09] Speaker 2: Nope, it is real white may just be numbers, which
[29:13] Speaker 2: is why you move.
[29:15] Speaker 18: You choose to try to move the venue, or you
[29:17] Speaker 18: do something else where you try to give him a
[29:19] Speaker 18: fighting chance somewhere else.
[29:21] Speaker 11: Absolutely, so folks are going to keep looking after this
[29:25] Speaker 11: here all right, let's go to break.
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[32:33] Speaker 11: A quote to today's Bureau of Labor Statistics job report
[32:36] Speaker 11: on hunred. Seventy two thousand jobs were created in a
[32:38] Speaker 11: month of May, well above the eighty eight thousand, and
[32:40] Speaker 11: economists expected the overall unemployment rate remains the same at
[32:43] Speaker 11: four point three percent. Unemployment dropped from seven point three
[32:47] Speaker 11: percent in April to six point six percent. That's black unemployment.
[32:52] Speaker 11: Black unemployment dropped, okay, which is still almost double that
[32:56] Speaker 11: of the white rate. However, the unemployment for black men
[32:59] Speaker 11: uh dropped six point four percent, and for black women
[33:02] Speaker 11: the unemployment rate dropped to five point six percent. Morgan Harper,
[33:07] Speaker 11: the director of Policy and Advocacy of the American Economic
[33:09] Speaker 11: Liberties Product, joined us right now. I'm Morgan, glad to
[33:11] Speaker 11: have you here. Well, you look at that number at
[33:13] Speaker 11: six point six now you're talking. That was April of
[33:18] Speaker 11: two thousand, April of this year.
[33:20] Speaker 2: Go to my iPad. This was April twenty.
[33:22] Speaker 11: Twenty three, when black unemployment was four point eight percent.
[33:27] Speaker 2: So it's just factual.
[33:29] Speaker 11: Since Donald Trump has been back in the White House,
[33:31] Speaker 11: he has been awful for black people and when it
[33:33] Speaker 11: comes to unemployment. Let's see here, Morgan, can you double
[33:45] Speaker 11: check if you're mudia on your end? I can't hear you,
[33:52] Speaker 11: all right, Yeah, you're you're still muted. Nope, can't hear you.
[34:00] Speaker 11: All right, So let's do this here. Y'all figure out
[34:03] Speaker 11: y'all figure out Morgan's audio, and then let me know
[34:07] Speaker 11: so we could talk about the job's numbers. I'm gonna
[34:10] Speaker 11: go to this other story then come back. So y'all
[34:12] Speaker 11: let me know when y'all got the audio straight. Folks,
[34:15] Speaker 11: let's talk about the story out of Colorado. Remember this
[34:18] Speaker 11: particular story where two paramedics were convicted for their role
[34:24] Speaker 11: in the death of Elijah McClain. Well, those convictions have
[34:28] Speaker 11: now been overturned. He was of course, he died in
[34:31] Speaker 11: twenty nineteen, and there was a case that everybody was
[34:35] Speaker 11: for following. On Thursday, the Colorado Cold of Appeals reverse
[34:38] Speaker 11: the twenty twenty three homicide convictions of two paramedics, Peter
[34:44] Speaker 11: Satchuniak and Jeremy Cooper. The appeals court agreed with Cooper's
[34:47] Speaker 11: argument that the district court aired in refusing to clarify
[34:50] Speaker 11: the standard of care applicable to the charge of criminally
[34:53] Speaker 11: negligent homicide after the jury indicated they were unsure of
[34:56] Speaker 11: the standard to apply and request it a definition. Triniask
[35:00] Speaker 11: conviction of second degree assault by unlawfed administration of drugs
[35:03] Speaker 11: remains in place. He was sentenced to four years probation.
[35:06] Speaker 11: In September twenty twenty four, Cooper was acquitted of the
[35:08] Speaker 11: second degree assault charge in twenty twenty three, twenty three
[35:12] Speaker 11: year unarmed black man died after a rural police placed
[35:14] Speaker 11: him in a neck hole and Cooper administered an excessive
[35:17] Speaker 11: amount of the sedative Kennemaie that Triniya Act was supervising
[35:20] Speaker 11: Cooper at the time of the injection. Colorad Attorney General
[35:24] Speaker 11: Phil Wiser Relief said this about the ruling of jury
[35:26] Speaker 11: convicted two paramedics for the death of Elijah McLain, an
[35:29] Speaker 11: innocent black man who did nothing wrong that tragic night
[35:32] Speaker 11: seven years ago. Bringing these cases to trial was the
[35:35] Speaker 11: right thing to do for justice for Elijah McClain and
[35:37] Speaker 11: for healing in the Aurora community. The Attorney General's Office
[35:41] Speaker 11: is committed to defending these convictions through the appeals process.
[35:45] Speaker 2: Justice demands it.
[35:46] Speaker 11: Community activists held a news conference to voice their outrage
[35:49] Speaker 11: over the Pills Court decision.
[35:53] Speaker 5: We say liberty.
[35:56] Speaker 22: And justice for all.
[36:00] Speaker 23: Our pledge of allegiance to this country, we say liberty
[36:08] Speaker 23: and justice for all.
[36:12] Speaker 14: What this system told us.
[36:14] Speaker 24: Yesterday was liberty and justice were all except Elijah McLean
[36:20] Speaker 24: and anyone that looks like him.
[36:23] Speaker 22: Yes, So I'm gonna challenge us as a society.
[36:30] Speaker 23: Maybe we should take that line out of our pledge
[36:32] Speaker 23: of allegiance because the black community knows that that is
[36:37] Speaker 23: not true. Those who want to uphold these systems that
[36:41] Speaker 23: harm us know that isn't true. And I have no
[36:45] Speaker 23: doubt that everybody in between knows that that is not true.
[36:51] Speaker 23: So maybe we should stop saying liberty and justice for all.
[37:01] Speaker 23: What we saw yesterday was the product of a plague system.
[37:08] Speaker 23: And so I'm gonna remind all of us what our
[37:12] Speaker 23: Colorado Appellate Court is thrusting us back in zoo.
[37:18] Speaker 14: The Knight Elijah McClean was murdered.
[37:20] Speaker 22: He went to the slore.
[37:23] Speaker 5: And decided to walk home.
[37:27] Speaker 22: He thought he was just simply going to come home.
[37:33] Speaker 5: He was met by police officers.
[37:40] Speaker 14: He was tackled, he was tortured, and then, to ensure
[37:49] Speaker 14: that he would.
[37:49] Speaker 5: Not survive the nights, he was injected with ketemy.
[37:57] Speaker 25: If you heard any part of that trial, or settler
[38:00] Speaker 25: any part of that trial, you know that Elijah was
[38:06] Speaker 25: begging for his life.
[38:10] Speaker 5: He had to humanize himself.
[38:14] Speaker 14: He uttered the words I'm sorry.
[38:18] Speaker 5: To the men who killed him.
[38:23] Speaker 23: And before he uttered those words, it was clear that
[38:27] Speaker 23: those men knew exactly.
[38:28] Speaker 26: What they were doing.
[38:32] Speaker 22: If you listen closely to that bodycam footage.
[38:36] Speaker 24: You will also hear Elijah moaning at the end of
[38:40] Speaker 24: his life, and you will hear a police officer sneeze
[38:46] Speaker 24: and another officer says God bless you. While he's moaning
[38:52] Speaker 24: for his life, someone sneezes and someone.
[38:58] Speaker 26: Offers a God bless you.
[39:01] Speaker 11: In connection with McLean's dad, three former Aurora police officers
[39:06] Speaker 11: were also charged. Randy Rodeemo was found guilty of criminally
[39:10] Speaker 11: neligent homicide and third degree, while Jason Rosenblant and Nathan
[39:13] Speaker 11: Woodyard were acquitted of all charges. So we'll see, of course,
[39:18] Speaker 11: what happens next with this case as Colorado looks to
[39:23] Speaker 11: appeal this decision. Folks, we're seeing betting take place all
[39:29] Speaker 11: across sports. You're watching sports broadcast every single day, football, basketball,
[39:33] Speaker 11: you name, and all you see are all of these
[39:35] Speaker 11: different betting commercials and ads and apps and things along
[39:39] Speaker 11: those lines. You got lots of these podcasts being sponsored
[39:44] Speaker 11: by betting companies. Well, it's no shock it's going to
[39:48] Speaker 11: have an impact what happens on the court. The NCAA
[39:52] Speaker 11: is prim lely banned for former Alabama State University student
[39:56] Speaker 11: athletes due to their involvement in betting. The individuals, identif
[40:00] Speaker 11: Asmar Knox, Sean Fulcher, Corey Hines, and Tony Medlock, the
[40:04] Speaker 11: engage in game manipulation and regarding the outcome of the
[40:08] Speaker 11: December fifth, twenty twenty four game between Alabama State and
[40:11] Speaker 11: Southern Mississippi. According to the NC double A, the four
[40:13] Speaker 11: players received a total of two thousand dollars from two
[40:17] Speaker 11: known betters to deliberately throw the game. The players accepted
[40:21] Speaker 11: the offer and receive payment. The US Attorney's Office for
[40:24] Speaker 11: the Eastern District of Pennsylvania has indicted the two betters
[40:27] Speaker 11: involved in this scheme on charters of wire fraud and
[40:30] Speaker 11: bribery related to gambling on sports contest. The scheme in
[40:34] Speaker 11: Alabama State was uncovered after one of the players, Hines,
[40:37] Speaker 11: transferred to Temple University. He informed the ncublea's enforcement staff
[40:41] Speaker 11: that he had been contacted by the FBI, which showed
[40:44] Speaker 11: him text messages regarding a sporting integrity issue from his
[40:48] Speaker 11: time at Alabama State. When interview players lied to the
[40:52] Speaker 11: NC double A, they lied involved in here and when cooni,
[40:57] Speaker 11: no one should be shocked the raality same thing. Terry Rogier,
[41:01] Speaker 11: one of the NBA players indicted the arbitrator rule that
[41:04] Speaker 11: he has to return most of his twenty six point
[41:08] Speaker 11: six million dollar salary this year, and he was indicted
[41:12] Speaker 11: for allegedly taking one hundred thousand dollars regarding a bet
[41:17] Speaker 11: on the game. First of all, I would just say
[41:20] Speaker 11: those aren't good odds to lose twenty six million dollars
[41:23] Speaker 11: for one hundred thousand.
[41:24] Speaker 7: Dollars bride.
[41:27] Speaker 2: Allegedly maybe hello allegedly.
[41:31] Speaker 4: Right, I mean, Roland, I mean, I think what it
[41:33] Speaker 4: boils down to, like you said, is like this explosion
[41:35] Speaker 4: of sports betting, right, and people have done it so
[41:39] Speaker 4: commonly now, I think people don't really stop to think
[41:41] Speaker 4: of the implications of this. I think one it talks
[41:44] Speaker 4: about what the NCAA's challenges are in terms of this
[41:49] Speaker 4: is what happens when you're not necessarily paying players, right,
[41:52] Speaker 4: is that players are going to find other ways to
[41:54] Speaker 4: get paid. So I think it really causes us to
[41:56] Speaker 4: take a wider look at what that means and what
[41:59] Speaker 4: it means for these three young men who are now
[42:02] Speaker 4: ineligible for life right to play ball and probably have
[42:06] Speaker 4: wrecked their careers in futures. So I think it really
[42:09] Speaker 4: begs the larger question on like if sports betting is
[42:12] Speaker 4: going to be considered legal or illegal moving forward, and
[42:15] Speaker 4: what the implications are on it, I think regardless. One
[42:18] Speaker 4: thing that we do know is that if you're an athlete,
[42:20] Speaker 4: you certainly can engage in fixing games or else this
[42:24] Speaker 4: will be the outcome.
[42:27] Speaker 11: You know, I really do hate watching games these days, Michael,
[42:31] Speaker 11: and all you're seeing are just I mean, my god,
[42:34] Speaker 11: just over and over and over again, just like damn commercials. Now,
[42:39] Speaker 11: what you have going on also is you take this player,
[42:43] Speaker 11: Brendan Soresbeek, he was a quarterback at Indiana, made about
[42:48] Speaker 11: forty different bets while he was a quarterback. He transferred
[42:51] Speaker 11: to Texas Tech. He's been ruled ineligible and now he's suing,
[42:56] Speaker 11: and so he may first of all, not be able
[42:59] Speaker 11: to play. Now that's a difference between making bets, making
[43:04] Speaker 11: bets and then throwing a game. That's different. But we're
[43:09] Speaker 11: seeing this here now. He was apparently, uh this is
[43:13] Speaker 11: ESPN story. Soors is being diagnosed with a gambling in
[43:16] Speaker 11: anxiety disorder and recently completed a three to five days
[43:19] Speaker 11: stint in Arizona Gambling Rehabilitation center. According to his attorneys,
[43:23] Speaker 11: He said it became a habit for me to bet,
[43:26] Speaker 11: Sorsy wrote in a statement to the NCAA by betting
[43:28] Speaker 11: became a composion which made it virtually impossible to resist
[43:31] Speaker 11: the constant notifications I received from betting apps. I lost
[43:35] Speaker 11: complete control of my addiction. I now realized that apps
[43:38] Speaker 11: controlled me and I did not control them. But people
[43:40] Speaker 11: have to understand is that like, first of all, betting
[43:43] Speaker 11: on games, that's different than throwing a game.
[43:45] Speaker 2: It's all so different than what.
[43:49] Speaker 11: Terry Rogier, Chauncey Billups and others, Damon Jones, they were
[43:53] Speaker 11: also indicted because they were invited indicted by being involved
[43:57] Speaker 11: in an.
[43:57] Speaker 2: Illegal gambling ring.
[43:59] Speaker 11: But it all speaks to what happens when gambling is
[44:03] Speaker 11: allowed in sports. And again you have gambling companies that
[44:07] Speaker 11: are now sponsors of sports league's NBA, NFL.
[44:13] Speaker 6: Yeah, Roland, this is just sliding down the here heel
[44:17] Speaker 6: of greed and corruption.
[44:19] Speaker 7: Okay.
[44:21] Speaker 6: And you know when you talked about this story, Chauncey
[44:26] Speaker 6: Billups came to mind. I live in Detroit. Chauncey Billups
[44:29] Speaker 6: is the hero here Detroit Pistons. Pistons won the championship
[44:34] Speaker 6: with Chauncey Billups. And when that scandal broke that. You
[44:39] Speaker 6: just mentioned that gambling ring of Jamail Hill, the sports
[44:43] Speaker 6: journalist Jamail Hill.
[44:45] Speaker 7: I saw her from one of the shows and.
[44:47] Speaker 6: She was talking about how in sports there's a culture
[44:52] Speaker 6: of gambling. They'll gamble in their hotel rooms, they'll play cars.
[44:57] Speaker 6: There's a culture of gambling. So the sports betting, the apps,
[45:04] Speaker 6: the all of this, this is an extension of this.
[45:07] Speaker 6: And you know, these brothers have to be an athletes
[45:12] Speaker 6: regardless of race. These athletes really have to be centered
[45:15] Speaker 6: where you don't throw away your life for two.
[45:18] Speaker 26: Three thousand, four thousand dollars.
[45:21] Speaker 6: You know, I can understand coming from poverty, wanting to
[45:24] Speaker 6: needing to make money.
[45:25] Speaker 26: Things of this nature, but you you have to be
[45:27] Speaker 26: able to think beyond that that moment.
[45:30] Speaker 6: And you know, if you don't learn anything from Pete Rose, Okay,
[45:35] Speaker 6: how he destroyed his legacy?
[45:37] Speaker 7: All right, Charlie Hustle, I remember.
[45:40] Speaker 26: When I used to follow baseball when I was a kid.
[45:42] Speaker 7: You know, Pete Rose was a hero, Pete Pete Rose.
[45:45] Speaker 6: Destroyed his legacy because of betting on games and allegedly,
[45:50] Speaker 6: from my understanding, games that he was involved in.
[45:54] Speaker 7: Okay, so you know this is this is sad to hear,
[45:59] Speaker 7: but the leagues need to crack.
[46:01] Speaker 2: Down on this. Yeah, but guess what, it's a ton
[46:07] Speaker 2: of money being thrown uh their way.
[46:10] Speaker 27: Uh.
[46:10] Speaker 11: And you know it used to be a time, Matt
[46:12] Speaker 11: where I mean, leagues just avoided Las Vegas. They're like,
[46:17] Speaker 11: we ain't playing there, ain't gonna be no teams there. Well,
[46:20] Speaker 11: guess what. The Raiders moved from Oakland. They got a
[46:23] Speaker 11: w n B A franchise. The Oakland Athletics has now
[46:26] Speaker 11: moved there as well. Now as there's talk that Las
[46:29] Speaker 11: Vegas is going to get h NBA franchise. But gambling
[46:33] Speaker 11: was opened up. You know, it used to be just
[46:35] Speaker 11: just used to be just Nevada in in Atlantic City,
[46:39] Speaker 11: New Jersey. Now it's all nationwide.
[46:42] Speaker 17: Uh.
[46:42] Speaker 2: And I'm telling you right now, get used to it.
[46:45] Speaker 2: There's gonna be more stories like this. The better's placing,
[46:49] Speaker 2: you know, convincing a college student.
[46:51] Speaker 28: Hey.
[46:52] Speaker 11: And and the way the thing is now, it's not
[46:54] Speaker 11: even just throwing the game. Now, remember Michael, the brother
[46:57] Speaker 11: of Michael Porter Junior, got thrown out of the NBA
[47:00] Speaker 11: for life. Where now they bet on how many points
[47:05] Speaker 11: you score, how many rebounds you'll get, how many minutes
[47:08] Speaker 11: you'll play, and they're very diligent at tracking these things.
[47:12] Speaker 11: And so you know, we're going to see more examples
[47:14] Speaker 11: of this in the future now that gambling is just
[47:18] Speaker 11: all involved in sports.
[47:21] Speaker 19: Matt, Yeah, we sure are.
[47:24] Speaker 18: But I mean, look, I think it's also a matter
[47:26] Speaker 18: of personal integrity. I know people don't want to have
[47:28] Speaker 18: that conversation, but you know, I don't have an issue
[47:30] Speaker 18: with gambling being omnipresent, but if you're gambling on games
[47:34] Speaker 18: you're involved in, or gambling in some way against the rules,
[47:37] Speaker 18: you're making a choice to do that, and I think
[47:39] Speaker 18: that's frankly, what is that issue here? I do think
[47:42] Speaker 18: we as a society are intellectually dishonest with gambling, especially
[47:46] Speaker 18: in the state of Texas. The state of Texas will
[47:48] Speaker 18: allow you to play the lottery, but they'll still charge
[47:50] Speaker 18: you for keeping a gambling place. I just got a
[47:52] Speaker 18: gambling case dismissed a couple of weeks ago, because our
[47:55] Speaker 18: county can give you a license, but if you have
[47:57] Speaker 18: a private game room, it's somehow illegal. I mean, we
[47:59] Speaker 18: need to resolve the legal issue, but in this instance,
[48:02] Speaker 18: you know, look, if you're an athlete, you shouldn't be
[48:03] Speaker 18: involved in gambling at all, you know what's going to happen.
[48:06] Speaker 18: But I will tell you I think the problem is
[48:08] Speaker 18: DJ doesn't seem to have the same you know, egle
[48:11] Speaker 18: eye on insider trading in congress, right, Nope. I mean
[48:14] Speaker 18: that's where they need to be cocking down, you know,
[48:16] Speaker 18: cracking down. And I think that shows you how our
[48:21] Speaker 18: justice system can also be just completely disproportionate, and how
[48:24] Speaker 18: it responds to things. We're indicting athletes, but we have
[48:27] Speaker 18: a pretty good reason to believe somebody at sixteen hundred
[48:30] Speaker 18: Pennsylvania is cooking the books and making a slush fund
[48:33] Speaker 18: for his friends, and DJ isn't doing anything about that.
[48:36] Speaker 19: So, you know, skip me with the moral outrage.
[48:38] Speaker 18: But I also think if you're an athlete, it is
[48:40] Speaker 18: per se dangerous to be involved in any kind of
[48:42] Speaker 18: betting for this exact reason.
[48:44] Speaker 2: Indeed, indeed, all right, y'all going to a break. We'll
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[53:06] Speaker 11: Let's talk about these job numbers us. Bring Morgan Harper back.
[53:10] Speaker 11: Hopefully Margaret Morgan.
[53:11] Speaker 2: Was with the audio.
[53:14] Speaker 5: Can you hear me?
[53:14] Speaker 2: There we go? Now we got you, all right, so
[53:16] Speaker 2: let's talk about this here too. White House was all excited.
[53:20] Speaker 11: They were just going, yah, yay, yay, because finally some
[53:24] Speaker 11: good news. But it's not like it's completely great news
[53:28] Speaker 11: when it comes to these numbers.
[53:31] Speaker 5: No, And we've been getting used to this story.
[53:33] Speaker 30: I mean, they're definitely doing whatever they can to paint
[53:36] Speaker 30: a rosy picture. But like we've talked about in prior
[53:38] Speaker 30: month's rolland I mean, you look beneath the hood and
[53:41] Speaker 30: there's a much more complicated story. So I'm going to
[53:44] Speaker 30: point out a couple of things. I mean, one, this
[53:47] Speaker 30: long term unemployment folks that are actively looking for a
[53:50] Speaker 30: job but can't find one, continues to increase. There's now
[53:54] Speaker 30: two million Americans that fit in that category. That's up
[53:57] Speaker 30: by over five hundred thousand from this time last year.
[54:00] Speaker 30: So that's a pretty significant jump. The other thing that
[54:04] Speaker 30: I would note is, again, like the types of jobs
[54:07] Speaker 30: that are leading to that top line number that the
[54:10] Speaker 30: White House wants to really trumpet and make such a
[54:13] Speaker 30: big deal about it continues to be healthcare, hospitality, leisure
[54:18] Speaker 30: type jobs which you know, don't necessarily pay the most,
[54:22] Speaker 30: aren't necessarily permanent. And then also I'm going to point
[54:27] Speaker 30: to one of the interesting things from this month about
[54:29] Speaker 30: jobs that were lost that impacts a lot of working class,
[54:32] Speaker 30: middle class Americans in the airline industry, which we're not
[54:35] Speaker 30: used to seeing in that Spirit Airlines that went away,
[54:38] Speaker 30: And this is another thing we've been talking about.
[54:40] Speaker 5: It was kind of like the influence of Wall Street.
[54:41] Speaker 5: Why did Spirit go?
[54:42] Speaker 30: Why Spirit went away because their hedge fund creditors, through
[54:45] Speaker 30: their bankruptcy process didn't want to receive any financial support
[54:48] Speaker 30: that would have kept them afloat and kept all of
[54:50] Speaker 30: the people that work for Spirit Airlines in those jobs.
[54:53] Speaker 5: So that could be we.
[54:54] Speaker 30: Could have a whole other conversation about that, But that's
[54:56] Speaker 30: just an interesting thing that's coming out in this data.
[54:59] Speaker 30: The other thing area of growth is local government, and
[55:02] Speaker 30: I think this is interesting because you know, the whole
[55:04] Speaker 30: American economy is kind of built and not just economy,
[55:07] Speaker 30: like our society is built under this premise of like
[55:09] Speaker 30: free market, let it get to work, Wall Street, all
[55:12] Speaker 30: of this, and when you have the local government as
[55:15] Speaker 30: one of the top three industries that's creating jobs in
[55:18] Speaker 30: your economy, it's like, well, what are we getting from
[55:21] Speaker 30: this free market private sector? And it is is it
[55:23] Speaker 30: worth all of those sacrifices that are being made and
[55:26] Speaker 30: trusting in the private sector to create all of those jobs?
[55:28] Speaker 30: Interesting question, not a conversation that the Trump administration is.
[55:33] Speaker 5: Likely to start.
[55:34] Speaker 30: The other thing that I think is really important to
[55:36] Speaker 30: continue to note is that wages are not keeping up
[55:40] Speaker 30: with the overall inflation and health costs are increasing. This month,
[55:44] Speaker 30: this past month's data also shows that, you know, wages
[55:47] Speaker 30: are only growing about three point four percent from a
[55:51] Speaker 30: year earlier, whereas inflation is rising like three point eight percent.
[55:54] Speaker 30: And so again, you know, and folks, I'm sure feeling this. Yeah, Okay,
[55:59] Speaker 30: you're making money, you have a job, but just how
[56:02] Speaker 30: far that's going in the economy for the purchases that
[56:04] Speaker 30: you have to cover for your family, gas, et cetera.
[56:08] Speaker 30: It's not necessarily keeping up. And so you know, it's
[56:10] Speaker 30: a much more complex picture. The last thing I would
[56:13] Speaker 30: note before turning back to your roll in is that
[56:15] Speaker 30: that's unique about this month is we got some more
[56:18] Speaker 30: data or more of this anecdotal data. You don't just
[56:20] Speaker 30: have to take our word for it or what we're
[56:21] Speaker 30: hearing from our friends. The federal government and the Federal
[56:24] Speaker 30: Reserve in this case.
[56:25] Speaker 5: Release what's called the Beige Book. And this this includes
[56:29] Speaker 5: some of that.
[56:29] Speaker 30: Like qualitative those anecdotal stories that the Federal Reserve Bank
[56:34] Speaker 30: system is hearing from people that are in each of
[56:36] Speaker 30: their districts. So this could be like consumer group, can
[56:39] Speaker 30: people who are in community development, you know, different businesses
[56:42] Speaker 30: themselves that are that are painting a picture of what's
[56:44] Speaker 30: going on.
[56:45] Speaker 5: In the economy, and that that information too.
[56:47] Speaker 30: And again this is official information that is being released
[56:50] Speaker 30: by the federal government and you know, the Trump administration
[56:54] Speaker 30: and theory that's not necessarily what they want to cover
[56:57] Speaker 30: is telling this picture that folks that a lot of
[57:00] Speaker 30: money are continuing to spend, but those with less money
[57:03] Speaker 30: are pulling back. So not that they're not participating in
[57:06] Speaker 30: the economy at all. Middle class people, you know, still
[57:08] Speaker 30: going out to get something to eat, but maybe not
[57:10] Speaker 30: going to get as much when they go out, maybe
[57:12] Speaker 30: still going on vacation, but shortening the amount of time
[57:14] Speaker 30: that they're planning to go on vacation because of how
[57:17] Speaker 30: much things.
[57:17] Speaker 5: Have gotten more expensive.
[57:19] Speaker 30: And then similarly, you know in the labor market that
[57:21] Speaker 30: they're hearing actually from a construction contact in Cleveland was saying,
[57:25] Speaker 30: you know, employees.
[57:25] Speaker 5: Are very stressed.
[57:26] Speaker 30: They don't feel like they can leave the job they're in,
[57:28] Speaker 30: They don't feel like they're going to be able to
[57:29] Speaker 30: get another job if they were to make some other
[57:32] Speaker 30: some kind of change in their employment status. And then
[57:35] Speaker 30: just overall the impacts speaking of the administration of the war,
[57:39] Speaker 30: the Iran war and all the conflict in the Middle
[57:41] Speaker 30: East and how that's impacting pricing, and you're hearing from
[57:45] Speaker 30: contacts in almost every district that it's leading to something
[57:48] Speaker 30: that we don't necessarily think about every day, like fertilizer
[57:50] Speaker 30: prices that are going up and spiking that then are
[57:53] Speaker 30: getting passed on in the form of higher food costs
[57:55] Speaker 30: eventually for us that are experiencing things in the economy
[57:58] Speaker 30: as a consumer. Again, overall, just a much much, much
[58:02] Speaker 30: more complex picture than what the administration is saying, and
[58:04] Speaker 30: it continues to show a lot of vulnerability when you
[58:07] Speaker 30: start to drill down in the day to day experiences
[58:09] Speaker 30: we're all having as we're trying to make our way
[58:12] Speaker 30: through this administration's mismanagement of the economy.
[58:14] Speaker 2: Well, we know they're gonna lie. I mean they're gonna lie.
[58:16] Speaker 11: In fact, Donald Trump was straight lying yesterday when he
[58:20] Speaker 11: was asked about black unemployment.
[58:22] Speaker 2: Listen to this.
[58:29] Speaker 11: Okay, guys, I tell you earlier to pool that clip.
[58:31] Speaker 11: So just forgiving the clip yesterday of Trump talking about
[58:34] Speaker 11: black unemployment.
[58:36] Speaker 2: In the Oval Office, the grill asked him this question.
[58:38] Speaker 7: But come back to it.
[58:39] Speaker 2: This is we talked about the numbers.
[58:42] Speaker 11: Of unemployment rate, Black uneployment rate six point six percent
[58:45] Speaker 11: of April twenty twenty six. Go to my iPad. This
[58:48] Speaker 11: was the number in April twenty twenty three. It was
[58:51] Speaker 11: that four point eight percent. When we talk about unemployment,
[58:56] Speaker 11: the reality is that the lowest unemployment among African America
[59:00] Speaker 11: has took place under President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris.
[59:03] Speaker 11: Yet Donald Trump still acts as if he's still him
[59:08] Speaker 11: and his support of are still trying to hold on
[59:10] Speaker 11: to the number in his first term but it got
[59:13] Speaker 11: went lower under Biden Harris, and so I don't know
[59:16] Speaker 11: what the hell they keep trying to talk about, like
[59:18] Speaker 11: he has just been so great for black people economically.
[59:22] Speaker 30: Yeah, I think I saw some of the coverage of
[59:24] Speaker 30: the Grio question, and yeah, I mean he's saying he's
[59:27] Speaker 30: doing everything to support black jobs. But again, we do
[59:30] Speaker 30: not have to take anything that he's saying for his word.
[59:32] Speaker 5: We can go to the data.
[59:33] Speaker 30: It is a fact that there are a lot of
[59:35] Speaker 30: black folks throughout this country that have been employed very
[59:38] Speaker 30: securely and with good benefits by the federal government. That
[59:41] Speaker 30: has been one of the primary targets of this administration's
[59:43] Speaker 30: policies is to eliminate those jobs. So any claim that
[59:46] Speaker 30: you are supporting black employment, black financial stability is absolute nonsense.
[59:51] Speaker 5: Coming out of this administration. It is just not true.
[59:54] Speaker 30: That is not an opinion, that is fact. So and again,
[59:57] Speaker 30: even if you're making some claim about the jobs that
[1:00:00] Speaker 30: are being created, and like we were just discussing what
[1:00:03] Speaker 30: industries are in healthcare, leisure, hospitality, comparing those types of
[1:00:07] Speaker 30: jobs to the types of benefits that would be in
[1:00:10] Speaker 30: security that would be coming from federal jobs, there is
[1:00:13] Speaker 30: no comparison. So, uh yeah, I agree, Roland. I think
[1:00:17] Speaker 30: it's a I mean, it's not surprising by any means.
[1:00:21] Speaker 30: And as we get, you know, deeper into twenty twenty six,
[1:00:24] Speaker 30: there are elections that that administration is going to have
[1:00:28] Speaker 30: to or they're going to be motivated by to get
[1:00:30] Speaker 30: any narrative out that feels like it's supporting their success
[1:00:33] Speaker 30: to get their people elected. But we have to continue
[1:00:35] Speaker 30: to come back to the numbers. We don't have to
[1:00:37] Speaker 30: imagine what's going on out there. We're seeing it for
[1:00:39] Speaker 30: ourselves and what the data is showing us and the
[1:00:42] Speaker 30: stories that we're all experiencing day.
[1:00:44] Speaker 11: To DAYYPYP There'll be more lying, all right, Do we
[1:00:46] Speaker 11: have the clip, let's roll.
[1:00:47] Speaker 12: It on Jobs of tomorrow?
[1:00:52] Speaker 1: The jobs for world will be Ableyes.
[1:00:54] Speaker 8: While the unemployment rasin study of four point three percent,
[1:00:56] Speaker 8: the black unemployer residence set one point three percent.
[1:00:59] Speaker 26: When you ran for as a name, you imported.
[1:01:01] Speaker 2: Black owlders and talked about we've described as black jobs.
[1:01:04] Speaker 26: How do you describe why this disparity is happening?
[1:01:07] Speaker 17: What can you do to clothes?
[1:01:07] Speaker 3: Well, we're doing very well with the black jobs, African
[1:01:11] Speaker 3: American jobs. We're doing I saw some numbers that we're
[1:01:14] Speaker 3: doing really well. But when we're really going to do
[1:01:17] Speaker 3: well is when all these plants are open. You know,
[1:01:18] Speaker 3: we're building many car plants. We're bringing cars back from Germany.
[1:01:22] Speaker 3: We're bringing you know, we lost the car industry years ago.
[1:01:25] Speaker 3: Fifty four percent of the industry went to Germany, Japan, Canada,
[1:01:30] Speaker 3: and Mexico.
[1:01:31] Speaker 12: It's all coming back. It's amazing.
[1:01:34] Speaker 3: And where you're black worker is really going to do
[1:01:37] Speaker 3: well is when those factories open. So I think they're
[1:01:39] Speaker 3: going to be great. We've been doing for it's been
[1:01:42] Speaker 3: a big focus for me.
[1:01:43] Speaker 2: Yeah. Please Morgan, what the hell is he talking about?
[1:01:47] Speaker 11: I mean saying, first of all, all, my god, we
[1:01:49] Speaker 11: lost the manufacturer. Okay, okay, one that's a lie because
[1:01:54] Speaker 11: of anybody who understands what's been happening is those same
[1:01:57] Speaker 11: foreign manufacturers were opening plants in the country. His tears
[1:02:03] Speaker 11: actually shut a lot of that down. The attacks on eyes,
[1:02:06] Speaker 11: the attacks on folks. We saw what happened to the
[1:02:09] Speaker 11: Hyundai plan in Georgia.
[1:02:10] Speaker 2: So what are you talking about?
[1:02:12] Speaker 11: It is like, oh, yeah, once these manufacturing jobs come back, yeah,
[1:02:15] Speaker 11: oh black people, y'all going to be good.
[1:02:18] Speaker 2: Got it.
[1:02:19] Speaker 30: Yeah, it's a wonderful imaginary land that he's building for himself.
[1:02:24] Speaker 5: I guess yeah.
[1:02:25] Speaker 30: I mean, look, the reality is, you know that disparity
[1:02:27] Speaker 30: between black unemployment and the general unemployment rate was at
[1:02:30] Speaker 30: its narrowest during the Biden administration. That is true, and
[1:02:34] Speaker 30: we have no indications from this current administration set of
[1:02:39] Speaker 30: policies that they are bringing manufacturing back. And again that's
[1:02:43] Speaker 30: not just my opinion. Look at the numbers. It's not happening.
[1:02:45] Speaker 30: And to your point, Roland, a lot of the decisions
[1:02:48] Speaker 30: that are being made now, nothing suggests that they're going
[1:02:51] Speaker 30: to be changing the trajectory anytime soon, right, So yeah,
[1:02:54] Speaker 30: I think it's actually only they've created a lot more
[1:02:57] Speaker 30: uncertainty in the environment. They've created a lot more barriers
[1:03:00] Speaker 30: to investment happening in the US. And I don't know
[1:03:04] Speaker 30: that anyone out there is expecting some kind of huge
[1:03:07] Speaker 30: jobs boom as a result, and especially not a job's
[1:03:10] Speaker 30: boom that's going to specifically support our community.
[1:03:14] Speaker 11: And a moment, I'm going to play this clip of
[1:03:17] Speaker 11: Niger Innis was on law Ingram and he was just
[1:03:21] Speaker 11: touting how amazing things are in America, as if they
[1:03:25] Speaker 11: actually happen under Trump, and I got to get your
[1:03:27] Speaker 11: thoughts in that. We'll go to my panel first though
[1:03:29] Speaker 11: with questions. Let's see here when Cooney you first.
[1:03:35] Speaker 4: So, first of all, thank you for that breakdown. I
[1:03:38] Speaker 4: think what I'm curious about is this black job statement
[1:03:42] Speaker 4: in terms of factory jobs. First off, we know that
[1:03:44] Speaker 4: black and brown people don't only work at factories. But
[1:03:48] Speaker 4: what I wanted to know is are those types of
[1:03:50] Speaker 4: factory or automotive jobs at risk because of the recent
[1:03:54] Speaker 4: boom of AI? I mean, how realistic are those jobs
[1:03:58] Speaker 4: in continuing to proliferate in the future, knowing what we
[1:04:01] Speaker 4: know about the advent of AI and how a lot
[1:04:03] Speaker 4: of these factory jobs are going to be replaced in
[1:04:05] Speaker 4: the next few years.
[1:04:08] Speaker 30: Yeah, I think it's a great question and good to
[1:04:09] Speaker 30: see you, and I think it's a great question. I mean,
[1:04:11] Speaker 30: the reality is we kind of don't know yet exactly
[1:04:14] Speaker 30: how all the AI technology is going to play out
[1:04:17] Speaker 30: in the economy. And this is a really live discussion,
[1:04:20] Speaker 30: but it does seem like, yes, even if we have
[1:04:23] Speaker 30: more factories that are opening, even if we have you know,
[1:04:25] Speaker 30: more companies that are investing in manufacturing, they are likely
[1:04:29] Speaker 30: to be putting more of the resources towards automation within
[1:04:33] Speaker 30: those factories, and they will just not be creating the
[1:04:35] Speaker 30: same level of jobs that they might have even a
[1:04:38] Speaker 30: couple of decades ago. And so, you know, even thinking
[1:04:41] Speaker 30: of that as some kind of long term strategy for
[1:04:45] Speaker 30: supporting the middle class and creating more stability for the
[1:04:49] Speaker 30: middle class seems a little bit short sighted. And I
[1:04:52] Speaker 30: think that's why we are starting to see these proposed
[1:04:54] Speaker 30: I don't know if you know everybody saw it this
[1:04:56] Speaker 30: week and over the last couple of weeks, Like you know,
[1:04:58] Speaker 30: Bernie Sanders came out with a proposal about AI and
[1:05:01] Speaker 30: creating a sovereign wealth fund for American citizens related to
[1:05:05] Speaker 30: AI to be able to capture some of the financial gains,
[1:05:08] Speaker 30: like the government taking equity stakes in the largest AI companies.
[1:05:12] Speaker 30: I'm not saying that's a good or a bad idea,
[1:05:14] Speaker 30: but it's kind of interesting that that's where we're at
[1:05:16] Speaker 30: in that conversation that we have senators that are suggesting.
[1:05:20] Speaker 5: Taking these equity stakes.
[1:05:21] Speaker 30: Elizbeth Warren was talking about a tax on AI that
[1:05:24] Speaker 30: then would be able to then that revenue would be
[1:05:27] Speaker 30: able to be used to support different kinds of programs
[1:05:30] Speaker 30: for families like childcare and healthcare, given that there are
[1:05:35] Speaker 30: likely to be these types of disruptions to the labor market.
[1:05:38] Speaker 30: And so I don't think anybody has the exact answers here.
[1:05:41] Speaker 30: But this is another one of the risks and having
[1:05:43] Speaker 30: an administration that is so deeply unseerious about understanding problems,
[1:05:48] Speaker 30: let alone solving them, because we have a lot of
[1:05:51] Speaker 30: change that's happening right now, and it does seem, you know,
[1:05:53] Speaker 30: when we're talking about AI, that these really big companies
[1:05:56] Speaker 30: and now you know, are going to be going public.
[1:05:59] Speaker 30: They have a lot of power over how the administration
[1:06:02] Speaker 30: is thinking about policy was related to this technology and
[1:06:06] Speaker 30: then ultimately over the entire economy because of how much
[1:06:09] Speaker 30: Wall Street the stock market is weighted in their direction.
[1:06:14] Speaker 2: Absolutely, Michael.
[1:06:18] Speaker 7: Okay Morgan.
[1:06:19] Speaker 6: And first of all, it takes between eighteen months to
[1:06:22] Speaker 6: sixty months, a year and a half to five years
[1:06:25] Speaker 6: to be to build a car factory. So I guess
[1:06:29] Speaker 6: Trump is talking about jobs coming after.
[1:06:31] Speaker 7: He leaves office. If he leaves office, the piece from.
[1:06:34] Speaker 5: Detroit, you know, all the details on that.
[1:06:39] Speaker 19: Go ahead.
[1:06:39] Speaker 6: I want people in twenty fifteen, twenty sixteen about Trump
[1:06:43] Speaker 6: when I was on the radio here in de Trade.
[1:06:44] Speaker 7: I warned them.
[1:06:46] Speaker 6: The piece from Thegrill dot com today that talks about
[1:06:49] Speaker 6: how even though the black unemployment rate dropped is not
[1:06:54] Speaker 6: as good as Trump makes it seem. Talked about the
[1:06:57] Speaker 6: label force participation rate, and it was it's not that
[1:07:02] Speaker 6: more jobs are created that black people got.
[1:07:04] Speaker 26: Is that more black people stop looking for jobs.
[1:07:08] Speaker 7: That's what brought it down.
[1:07:09] Speaker 26: To six point six percent.
[1:07:10] Speaker 7: Six point six percent.
[1:07:11] Speaker 6: Can you talk about that because that did get lost
[1:07:14] Speaker 6: in the headline news news posts that we see.
[1:07:19] Speaker 5: Yeah, I think you've identified.
[1:07:20] Speaker 30: You know, another one of these the risks and these
[1:07:22] Speaker 30: aggregate statistics is it's not telling the full story.
[1:07:25] Speaker 5: So that's absolutely right.
[1:07:26] Speaker 30: I mean, the way that unemployment is calculated does it
[1:07:29] Speaker 30: is taking into account people who are looking for jobs.
[1:07:31] Speaker 30: Once you stop looking for a job, then you're not
[1:07:34] Speaker 30: included in that data. And then it can create this
[1:07:36] Speaker 30: almost like inflated sense of a positive picture, right because
[1:07:40] Speaker 30: the number is going down, but that doesn't mean that
[1:07:42] Speaker 30: things are getting better and similar you know to what
[1:07:45] Speaker 30: I said earlier and kind of the overview and the
[1:07:47] Speaker 30: breakdown and even within that number of you know, how
[1:07:50] Speaker 30: we're looking at who is looking for employment. We're starting
[1:07:53] Speaker 30: to see more people that are looking longer, and so yes,
[1:07:56] Speaker 30: maybe the overall number is going down, but among that
[1:07:58] Speaker 30: set of people who are still unemployed, they've been unemployed
[1:08:01] Speaker 30: unemployed for a minute and maybe like several months, and
[1:08:05] Speaker 30: so again, yeah, it's a much more complicated picture. We
[1:08:09] Speaker 30: have to continue to have these breakdowns so we understand
[1:08:12] Speaker 30: what's going on, and we aren't seeing any movement from
[1:08:16] Speaker 30: the administration to really again be honest about what these numbers.
[1:08:19] Speaker 30: They have no incentive actually to be honest, given all
[1:08:21] Speaker 30: the political implications of how badly the economy is going
[1:08:24] Speaker 30: for a lot of us, a lot of regular people,
[1:08:27] Speaker 30: and so as long as we have an understanding of it,
[1:08:29] Speaker 30: get that information out, it's going to be very important
[1:08:31] Speaker 30: in the coming months ahead too.
[1:08:32] Speaker 19: Matt Hi, I'm Morgan.
[1:08:36] Speaker 18: It's always a pleasure to see and to learn from you.
[1:08:38] Speaker 18: I have two quick questions. The first is, what is
[1:08:41] Speaker 18: the effect, the practical effect of there being an increase
[1:08:45] Speaker 18: in local government hiring. What does that mean in terms
[1:08:48] Speaker 18: of the health of the economy and just any insights
[1:08:51] Speaker 18: you can provide there. And then secondly, what is the
[1:08:53] Speaker 18: interplay with these numbers that we're seeing in the bond yields.
[1:08:57] Speaker 18: My understanding is that would mean that private you know, lend,
[1:09:00] Speaker 18: are less likely to lend because now they don't have
[1:09:03] Speaker 18: the same competitive edge with the government.
[1:09:05] Speaker 19: But if you could explain what those things mean, I'd
[1:09:07] Speaker 19: really appreciate it.
[1:09:10] Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, the local government one.
[1:09:11] Speaker 30: I don't know that I have an exact answer on
[1:09:13] Speaker 30: any of that, but I flagged it because I do
[1:09:15] Speaker 30: find it kind of interesting that it's among you know,
[1:09:18] Speaker 30: again like the top three market areas, if you want.
[1:09:21] Speaker 5: To call it, that that are leading to some of
[1:09:23] Speaker 5: this job growth. But as we know, I mean, the
[1:09:26] Speaker 5: local government.
[1:09:27] Speaker 30: Government isn't what most of us think of as a market, right,
[1:09:31] Speaker 30: I mean, these are usually jobs that are created to
[1:09:33] Speaker 30: provide services for us and citizens.
[1:09:36] Speaker 5: And wherever we're living.
[1:09:37] Speaker 30: Now, Like we've talked about, the federal government, which is
[1:09:39] Speaker 30: also one of the sectors that's you know, calculated in
[1:09:42] Speaker 30: these statistics, has been going down down. So to see
[1:09:44] Speaker 30: local governments that are starting to have an uptick, I
[1:09:47] Speaker 30: don't I don't know that I know exactly what to
[1:09:50] Speaker 30: make of that, but like I said earlier, I mean
[1:09:52] Speaker 30: I think it does undermine one of the core core
[1:09:57] Speaker 30: premise in American society is that like burn, baby, burn,
[1:10:01] Speaker 30: let the let the market go, Let the free market rule,
[1:10:04] Speaker 30: and private sector is going to work for us and
[1:10:06] Speaker 30: trickle down and and you know, good times will just come.
[1:10:09] Speaker 30: And it's like, well, is that true when we have
[1:10:11] Speaker 30: an economy where most of the jobs are being.
[1:10:14] Speaker 5: Created leisure, hospitality, healthcare.
[1:10:17] Speaker 30: And then and then local government and also who what
[1:10:21] Speaker 30: what sector has been under attack based on a lot
[1:10:24] Speaker 30: of policies from the White House and also state governments.
[1:10:28] Speaker 5: I mean, you know, I'm I'm in Ohio. We have
[1:10:30] Speaker 5: a state.
[1:10:30] Speaker 30: Government that has drastically tried to reduce investment in local government.
[1:10:35] Speaker 30: And so again I don't I don't know exactly what's
[1:10:37] Speaker 30: going on there, but I do think it's a sign
[1:10:40] Speaker 30: that we do not have an economy that's creating jobs
[1:10:44] Speaker 30: in industries that will be meaningfully building up a lot
[1:10:47] Speaker 30: of folks financial position or suggest that America is going
[1:10:51] Speaker 30: to be a leader in future innovation and manufacturing and
[1:10:56] Speaker 30: you know, different sectors like that. And then you know,
[1:10:59] Speaker 30: in getting to the the bond piece of it, and
[1:11:01] Speaker 30: I do think, you know, just like we're looking at.
[1:11:03] Speaker 5: You know, bonds from the federal government that.
[1:11:06] Speaker 30: Okay, Yes, if some of these top line stats are
[1:11:08] Speaker 30: suggesting some positivity, but there is this much more complicated
[1:11:12] Speaker 30: picture of what's going on in the American economy and
[1:11:14] Speaker 30: no reason to be that optimistic about what's coming. Well,
[1:11:17] Speaker 30: then we are going to have to start giving people
[1:11:19] Speaker 30: a lot more money to invest in the US and
[1:11:22] Speaker 30: continue to fund our government and a lot of the
[1:11:26] Speaker 30: activity coming out of the federal government. So yeah, it's
[1:11:30] Speaker 30: it's interesting. I think this is one we have to
[1:11:32] Speaker 30: continue to watch. I'm gonna definitely try to learn more
[1:11:34] Speaker 30: about it.
[1:11:35] Speaker 5: But I just I found that.
[1:11:36] Speaker 30: Stat a bit a bit curious and again not not
[1:11:40] Speaker 30: necessarily to me a signal that all is well with
[1:11:42] Speaker 30: us right now.
[1:11:44] Speaker 11: All right, So Laura Ingram invited niger Innis to her
[1:11:49] Speaker 11: show and he said some of the most insane stuff,
[1:11:53] Speaker 11: and I ripped him last night, and I just had
[1:11:56] Speaker 11: to play it again for you, Morgan as the economist.
[1:11:59] Speaker 2: Listen.
[1:12:00] Speaker 31: It is full the sharp contrast here, Ali Velshi focus
[1:12:05] Speaker 31: on America's you know, I guess irredeemable sins. If you
[1:12:08] Speaker 31: don't have reparations to this idea that in this country,
[1:12:13] Speaker 31: anything's possible, anything's possible if you play by the rules,
[1:12:18] Speaker 31: and you work hard and you have a positive attitude.
[1:12:21] Speaker 31: I mean, this guy's a limit.
[1:12:24] Speaker 10: Absolutely, And I'm so pleased that you had Bob Woodson
[1:12:29] Speaker 10: rest in peace on He was a great hero. And
[1:12:33] Speaker 10: he and people like my father, people like Allen Keys,
[1:12:39] Speaker 10: Justice Thomas, so many others had an indomitable faith in
[1:12:43] Speaker 10: our country, the American people. They're fellow Americans and the constitution.
[1:12:48] Speaker 10: You know, Laura, you know, the people can disparage you
[1:12:52] Speaker 10: and I as being you know, leaning to the rights,
[1:12:55] Speaker 10: so they wouldn't believe our statistics. Well, if you don't
[1:12:58] Speaker 10: believe us, go to the liberal black liberal think tank,
[1:13:03] Speaker 10: the Joint Center for Economic and Policy Research, that in
[1:13:09] Speaker 10: twenty twenty four, And I want to get this right,
[1:13:11] Speaker 10: so I'm going to read it literally from their study.
[1:13:14] Speaker 10: This is the first lines of their study. Black Americans
[1:13:17] Speaker 10: are experiencing the most positive economic condition and generations, record
[1:13:24] Speaker 10: low unemployment rates, record low poverty rates, with record high income.
[1:13:30] Speaker 2: Levels, and new heights of wealth.
[1:13:32] Speaker 10: That is from the Joint Center, which is a black
[1:13:37] Speaker 10: liberal think tank. And you know, lord, look, if you
[1:13:40] Speaker 10: look across the line, not just economically, politically, let's just
[1:13:44] Speaker 10: give you a little snapshot. You know Mississippi, and we
[1:13:49] Speaker 10: know the racist past of Mississippi. It was the epicenter
[1:13:55] Speaker 10: of political violence, of lynchings, of real voteoter suppression, not
[1:14:00] Speaker 10: the phony voter suppression that they talk about today, but
[1:14:03] Speaker 10: real voter suppression back in the sixties, fifties and before.
[1:14:07] Speaker 10: Well today, Laura is gonna shock. You're gonna be knocked
[1:14:10] Speaker 10: off your seat. You know, the state that has the
[1:14:13] Speaker 10: most block elected officials in the country.
[1:14:16] Speaker 11: I'm said, there, listen to He'll run these numbers down.
[1:14:19] Speaker 11: And none of that happened under Trump. None of that,
[1:14:24] Speaker 11: and our kind of a black people has gotten and
[1:14:27] Speaker 11: the entire economy has absolutely gotten worse since that twenty
[1:14:33] Speaker 11: twenty four report.
[1:14:36] Speaker 30: Yeah, seems like, I mean, we can't save everybody, right, Well,
[1:14:39] Speaker 30: I don't know what.
[1:14:40] Speaker 5: He's talking about.
[1:14:40] Speaker 2: Don't even trust me. He would be one of the
[1:14:43] Speaker 2: ones Harriet would not save.
[1:14:46] Speaker 5: We gotta leave something behind. What can I say?
[1:14:50] Speaker 11: I mean, I just sat there and I was like, dude,
[1:14:51] Speaker 11: come on, let me just stop it.
[1:14:53] Speaker 2: All right, Morgan, always a pleasure. I appreciate it. Thanks
[1:14:55] Speaker 2: a lot.
[1:14:57] Speaker 5: Good to see you rolling, all right, y'all.
[1:14:59] Speaker 2: I gotta go to a break. Will be right back.
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[1:17:17] Speaker 11: The House Agriculture Committee had a hearing and man did
[1:17:20] Speaker 11: Ohio congress Woman Sean tail Brown go in on Brook Rollins,
[1:17:25] Speaker 11: Trump's and incompetent agricultural secretary.
[1:17:30] Speaker 4: Watch this Secretary Rollins.
[1:17:32] Speaker 27: Over the last year, this administration has repeatedly said that
[1:17:36] Speaker 27: we are entering a golden age, a golden age of
[1:17:40] Speaker 27: American agriculture. Well, frankly, that would come as news to
[1:17:44] Speaker 27: the farmers and ranchers I talked to in Ohio and
[1:17:46] Speaker 27: around the country, because the only thing that is truly
[1:17:49] Speaker 27: golden right now is the price of fertilizer. While farm
[1:17:52] Speaker 27: country and rural America struggle. Farmers are facing trade wars
[1:17:57] Speaker 27: and real wars, rising input costs and shrinking export markets,
[1:18:01] Speaker 27: cuts at USDA, and tightening margins, all because of policy
[1:18:06] Speaker 27: choices made by this administration. For many producers, the question
[1:18:11] Speaker 27: isn't how much they're making, it's whether they'll make it
[1:18:15] Speaker 27: through another season. So you all can call this the
[1:18:20] Speaker 27: golden age if you want, But the numbers tell a
[1:18:25] Speaker 27: different story, and so do the farmers living it every day. So,
[1:18:30] Speaker 27: Madam Secretary, yes or no? Are you aware that the
[1:18:33] Speaker 27: farm bankruptcies increased by forty six percent last year according
[1:18:37] Speaker 27: to the American Farm.
[1:18:38] Speaker 33: Bureau out of one point seven to seven million.
[1:18:42] Speaker 15: Time and say yes or no?
[1:18:43] Speaker 27: And are you aware the USDA for the estimates show
[1:18:46] Speaker 27: that farm income fell roughly twenty five billion billion following
[1:18:52] Speaker 27: the implementation of tariffs.
[1:18:54] Speaker 9: Yes or no?
[1:18:55] Speaker 33: That was based on the years before they're now all
[1:18:57] Speaker 33: star export markets, or are.
[1:19:00] Speaker 4: Are you that?
[1:19:01] Speaker 27: According to a recent Farm Bureau survey, six out of
[1:19:04] Speaker 27: ten farmers report that their financial situation is getting worse.
[1:19:09] Speaker 27: These are simple yes or nos. We have opened the market,
[1:19:11] Speaker 27: reclaiming my time. These are facts, Secretary Rolins. So this
[1:19:16] Speaker 27: is what a golden age of agriculture looks like. Because
[1:19:20] Speaker 27: if rising bankruptcies, falling farm income, and worsening financial conditions
[1:19:27] Speaker 27: are a sign of a golden age, I hate to
[1:19:31] Speaker 27: see what a downturn looks like. On the trade front,
[1:19:35] Speaker 27: this is my time, Robins, this is my time, mister chairman,
[1:19:41] Speaker 27: point of order. And on the trade front, the President,
[1:19:47] Speaker 27: Secretary Rolin, this is my time. This is the chairman
[1:19:53] Speaker 27: point of order in a dignified manner. You be dignified,
[1:19:58] Speaker 27: and I'll be dignified because this is my time. And
[1:20:00] Speaker 27: when I ask a question, if it's a yes or no,
[1:20:02] Speaker 27: I expect a yes or no answer to his secretary respectfully.
[1:20:06] Speaker 14: I'm on the trade The President recently.
[1:20:09] Speaker 27: Defended his Beijing bell out supporting Chinese ownership of US
[1:20:14] Speaker 27: farmland by stating, and I quote, you want to see
[1:20:16] Speaker 27: farm prices drop, you want to see farmers lose a
[1:20:19] Speaker 27: lot of money.
[1:20:20] Speaker 15: Just take that out of the market.
[1:20:22] Speaker 19: Another easy yes.
[1:20:24] Speaker 27: Or no question, Madam Secretary, do you agree with the
[1:20:27] Speaker 27: President that China should own our farmland?
[1:20:31] Speaker 33: China is a massive threat to America. The President has
[1:20:34] Speaker 33: recognized this over and over again. We have to protect
[1:20:38] Speaker 33: American farmland.
[1:20:38] Speaker 15: Thank you, Madam Secretary.
[1:20:40] Speaker 27: I'd like to turn to another example where I think
[1:20:42] Speaker 27: there is a significant gap between the story this administration
[1:20:45] Speaker 27: is telling and the reality Americans are experiencing. Recently, you
[1:20:51] Speaker 27: described it as good news that roughly four point five
[1:20:55] Speaker 27: million people have been quoted moved off SNAP. If those
[1:21:00] Speaker 27: families were leaving SNAP because of wages were rising and
[1:21:03] Speaker 27: people no longer needed assistance, I think we'd all celebrate that,
[1:21:07] Speaker 27: But that's not what's happening. The reality is the reality
[1:21:11] Speaker 27: is that four point five million people were kicked off
[1:21:14] Speaker 27: the program to pay for tax cuts for the wealthy
[1:21:17] Speaker 27: through HR one. Families and children are not leaving the
[1:21:21] Speaker 27: SNAP program because they're doing better. They're being forced off
[1:21:25] Speaker 27: because of eligibility changes, new administrative barriers, and states preparing
[1:21:30] Speaker 27: for the enormous cough shifts that they know is coming.
[1:21:34] Speaker 27: And you know this, So I'm really struggling to understand
[1:21:37] Speaker 27: why you think pulling the rug out from under children's, seniors, veterans,
[1:21:41] Speaker 27: and families that have fallen on hard times good news.
[1:21:44] Speaker 27: Can you explain why Americans should view losing access to
[1:21:49] Speaker 27: food assistance?
[1:21:50] Speaker 5: Can I expose when.
[1:21:51] Speaker 27: Grocery prices remain high and food and security continues to
[1:21:55] Speaker 27: affect families across this coustry.
[1:21:57] Speaker 33: I would love to explain, thank you, so snap increase
[1:21:59] Speaker 33: four percent under the last administration. The amount of fraud,
[1:22:03] Speaker 33: as I mentioned in the Red States, two hundred thousand.
[1:22:05] Speaker 14: Dead people claiming my time.
[1:22:06] Speaker 15: I mean, this is really starting to disturbing pattern here.
[1:22:09] Speaker 27: FIM bankruptcies are at a record high. But the president
[1:22:14] Speaker 27: is saying that it's a golden age. Madam Secretary, millions
[1:22:18] Speaker 27: of Americans are going hungry, and you're saying it's a
[1:22:21] Speaker 27: success story. The administration keeps pointing to numbers it wants
[1:22:25] Speaker 27: America's Americans to see. But families, farmers, and rural communities
[1:22:30] Speaker 27: are living with consequences of the numbers you don't want
[1:22:33] Speaker 27: to talk about.
[1:22:34] Speaker 14: I really really hope.
[1:22:35] Speaker 27: You can get your facts straight before January of next year.
[1:22:38] Speaker 33: We have more exports, we have aspired everything is in
[1:22:42] Speaker 33: better shape. I just don't think you want more people
[1:22:44] Speaker 33: to work. I think that you want more people on
[1:22:46] Speaker 33: government programs and not working.
[1:22:49] Speaker 4: It's it's remarkable.
[1:22:51] Speaker 11: Do you mean government programs like billions more to bail
[1:22:56] Speaker 11: out farmers. That's really what we're talking about here, Matt.
[1:22:59] Speaker 11: We talk about the administration and then for her to say, oh, well,
[1:23:03] Speaker 11: the farm bankruptcies is such a small amount. Tell it
[1:23:07] Speaker 11: to the people who are actually filing for bankruptcy and
[1:23:10] Speaker 11: losing their family farms and their family businesses.
[1:23:14] Speaker 18: Look, we've done this for decades in America. Farm subsidies
[1:23:19] Speaker 18: are not welfare. A black woman with multiple children is welfare, right,
[1:23:23] Speaker 18: walmartketting tax abatements is not welfare. But people getting snap
[1:23:27] Speaker 18: benefits is welfare. Yes, you're one hundred percent right. And
[1:23:30] Speaker 18: I still don't understand. Maybe I'm just a novice when
[1:23:33] Speaker 18: it comes to politics. I don't understand why the Trump
[1:23:35] Speaker 18: administration is allowing this policy to affect what tends to
[1:23:40] Speaker 18: be you know, a group of people that has been
[1:23:42] Speaker 18: in lockstep with them.
[1:23:43] Speaker 19: I think last week one of the.
[1:23:44] Speaker 18: Stories we were going to talk about was farmers basically
[1:23:47] Speaker 18: who had voted for Trump trying to one off the
[1:23:50] Speaker 18: effect of the policies. But I mean, right now, if
[1:23:52] Speaker 18: you look in Texas, James Tallerico is giving statements talking
[1:23:56] Speaker 18: about some of the most iconic Texas restaurants. You know,
[1:24:00] Speaker 18: barbecue restaurants are having trouble staying open because the price
[1:24:02] Speaker 18: of beef is so high. But farmers bankruptcies. They can't
[1:24:07] Speaker 18: afford John Deere's anymore, They can't afford equipment. The cost
[1:24:11] Speaker 18: of equipment and repairs is skyrocketed. Many of those people
[1:24:14] Speaker 18: are struggling with the cognitive dissonance of I've supported Trump
[1:24:18] Speaker 18: for two terms, but Trump's policies are absolutely affecting my
[1:24:22] Speaker 18: bottom line and my ability to subsist. So I tell
[1:24:25] Speaker 18: you all that to say, I'm really surprised they're not
[1:24:27] Speaker 18: taking a smarter attack on that, because if you want
[1:24:30] Speaker 18: continuity for the party and the people in power and
[1:24:32] Speaker 18: all that once Trump is gone, you would think that
[1:24:35] Speaker 18: you would be doing things that right now would help
[1:24:37] Speaker 18: what is historically a biggest part, one of the biggest
[1:24:40] Speaker 18: parts of your base.
[1:24:41] Speaker 19: They don't seem to be doing that.
[1:24:42] Speaker 18: And I think taking a very glib tech talking about oh,
[1:24:45] Speaker 18: it's only one xyz percent is a really horrible, horrible
[1:24:49] Speaker 18: position because at the beginning of this administration, one of
[1:24:52] Speaker 18: the things you showed on this very show was Iowa
[1:24:55] Speaker 18: farmers screaming at Chuck Grassley. You remember that meeting Chuck
[1:25:00] Speaker 18: Grassley and they shouted him down and they were like,
[1:25:02] Speaker 18: you guys said you were gonna do X.
[1:25:04] Speaker 19: You haven't done that. Basically, we feel like you lie
[1:25:07] Speaker 19: to us.
[1:25:08] Speaker 18: That is going to compound, it's gonna metastasize, and I
[1:25:11] Speaker 18: think that's gonna turn into a bigger political problem than
[1:25:14] Speaker 18: the Republicans are betting on.
[1:25:15] Speaker 19: And I don't understand why they're taking the positions they are.
[1:25:17] Speaker 2: Well, I'll be ance within Cooney.
[1:25:19] Speaker 11: I think they're taking the position because, frankly, those farmers
[1:25:22] Speaker 11: were stoopid enough to vote for him again and again.
[1:25:25] Speaker 2: I mean, these farmers got screwed his first time.
[1:25:28] Speaker 11: He destroyed the soy bean market, his tears destroyed life
[1:25:33] Speaker 11: for farmers.
[1:25:34] Speaker 2: And you know what, they came right back.
[1:25:36] Speaker 11: In fact, I was reading one story and these farmers
[1:25:39] Speaker 11: were saying, you know, well, I sure hope this thing
[1:25:43] Speaker 11: gets better by the end of his term.
[1:25:46] Speaker 2: I'm like, what the hell is wrong with y'all? It
[1:25:48] Speaker 2: ain't gonna get better, and that's.
[1:25:50] Speaker 11: Why they they're admitting, you know what, we just got
[1:25:53] Speaker 11: dumb folks who keep voting for us, So what the hell,
[1:25:56] Speaker 11: We're just gonna keep doing it, and they're gonna keep
[1:25:58] Speaker 11: sucking up to him and saying themna get my red
[1:26:01] Speaker 11: mc ahead.
[1:26:04] Speaker 4: I mean, it's sad when people just continue to pay
[1:26:07] Speaker 4: attention or not pay attention to the fact that, like
[1:26:10] Speaker 4: Matt said, the Trump administration is ripping their businesses apart.
[1:26:15] Speaker 4: It's ripping their businesses apart with rising production costs. We
[1:26:18] Speaker 4: see the increased tariffs on steel, aluminum, foreign imports. These
[1:26:22] Speaker 4: are what's driving the cost of the machinery up. We
[1:26:24] Speaker 4: see slumping export because these retaliatory tariffs from countries like
[1:26:28] Speaker 4: China and Canada have choked off access to international markets,
[1:26:32] Speaker 4: so farmers can't get their exports out of the country.
[1:26:35] Speaker 4: We see issues with biofuel and energy practices. The administration
[1:26:39] Speaker 4: continues to support traditional energy over biofuels, which again no
[1:26:44] Speaker 4: good for the farmer. And then you have insufficient aid
[1:26:47] Speaker 4: and intervention because the administration's blowing up things like government
[1:26:51] Speaker 4: bailouts and economic assistance. So really this is a cesspool
[1:26:56] Speaker 4: for all farmers and instead of pulling themselves out, They've
[1:26:59] Speaker 4: decided to continue to cling onto the ankles of Donald Trump.
[1:27:02] Speaker 4: And we see how that served them.
[1:27:05] Speaker 11: This was a piece from the American Presidency, University of
[1:27:10] Speaker 11: California and Santa Barbara. This was dated January thirty first,
[1:27:13] Speaker 11: twenty twenty two, and it said under President, by an
[1:27:16] Speaker 11: American farmer, incomes are approaching record levels. Net farm incomes
[1:27:20] Speaker 11: in twenty twenty one forecasts one hundred and sixteen point
[1:27:23] Speaker 11: eight billion, the highest level since the all time high
[1:27:26] Speaker 11: in twenty thirteen that happened to also be under President
[1:27:32] Speaker 11: Barack Obama.
[1:27:33] Speaker 2: The thing his was crazy.
[1:27:34] Speaker 11: So I was reading this story of Michael and as
[1:27:36] Speaker 11: one farmer said, well, had a lot more money in
[1:27:38] Speaker 11: my pocket under Biden. And I'm like, but that you're done,
[1:27:40] Speaker 11: ass vote for Kamala Harris. See that's the whole deal.
[1:27:43] Speaker 11: They're simply voting against it own economic interest.
[1:27:46] Speaker 2: And I'm sorry.
[1:27:47] Speaker 11: So when a lot of these farmers started start whining
[1:27:49] Speaker 11: and complaining, I really don't want to hear because you
[1:27:53] Speaker 11: voted for.
[1:27:55] Speaker 2: Your own demise.
[1:27:58] Speaker 7: Absolutely, Roland. And we just saying this. Since Trump got
[1:28:02] Speaker 7: back in office and a lot of these.
[1:28:05] Speaker 6: Farmers I've seen interviews with them, and they can't believe
[1:28:09] Speaker 6: that Donald Trump lied to them. And it makes me
[1:28:12] Speaker 6: believe that you don't understand what a com man is.
[1:28:15] Speaker 6: A con is short for confidence. A com man is
[1:28:20] Speaker 6: one who lies and wins your confidence so that they
[1:28:23] Speaker 6: can rip you off, so that they can run game
[1:28:27] Speaker 6: on you.
[1:28:27] Speaker 7: And this is exactly what's happening.
[1:28:29] Speaker 6: And you know because of USA i D being cut, right,
[1:28:34] Speaker 6: forty billion dollars from USAID cut because of DOGE. There
[1:28:38] Speaker 6: was one billion dollars in contracts that farmers lost, Okay,
[1:28:44] Speaker 6: and you had farmers. The other thing is you have
[1:28:48] Speaker 6: farmers who got contracts dealing with from the Biden Harris administration,
[1:28:54] Speaker 6: dealing with climate change and all different types of things
[1:28:57] Speaker 6: like this. Right, they didn't vote for Kamala Harris, Okay,
[1:29:03] Speaker 6: they voted for the guy who said climate change is
[1:29:05] Speaker 6: a hoax. And then those contracts get wiped out. So
[1:29:09] Speaker 6: we saw videos by farmers.
[1:29:11] Speaker 26: Talking about they didn't get paid from the government and
[1:29:14] Speaker 26: things of this nature.
[1:29:16] Speaker 7: We tried to tell you, Okay, at this point, I.
[1:29:21] Speaker 6: Don't know what to tell these farmers except I will
[1:29:23] Speaker 6: voted for Donald Trump by thirteen points in twenty twenty four,
[1:29:29] Speaker 6: he played you for a fool again. So this is
[1:29:33] Speaker 6: what happens, you know. Yep, I'm like, this is what
[1:29:37] Speaker 6: happens when you're stupid.
[1:29:39] Speaker 2: I'm like, this was on y'all. All right, folks are
[1:29:41] Speaker 2: in Florida.
[1:29:42] Speaker 11: Today, Orange County, Florida Mayor Jared Dimings announced he's suspending
[1:29:46] Speaker 11: his goodbutorial campaign for Florida governor after being diagnosed with
[1:29:49] Speaker 11: prostate cancer. He, of course husband of former Consulman Valve Demings.
[1:29:53] Speaker 11: He was surrounding today by family when he made the announcement.
[1:30:00] Speaker 1: Say this.
[1:30:04] Speaker 34: About my wrong for governors today, I'm going to be
[1:30:11] Speaker 34: very transparent with all of you here. I've had to
[1:30:16] Speaker 34: make some decisions here recently about running for governor. My
[1:30:25] Speaker 34: family they can come up and join because Monday of
[1:30:30] Speaker 34: this week, I received some bad news from my doctor
[1:30:37] Speaker 34: who confirmed that, you know, I have prostate cancer.
[1:30:43] Speaker 7: And because of that, I am going to.
[1:30:46] Speaker 34: Suspend my campaign for governor. I'm going to focus on
[1:30:52] Speaker 34: my health. That will become the priority. I'm only sharing
[1:30:56] Speaker 34: this because I'm in this very visible public position. I'm
[1:31:04] Speaker 34: sharing about a private matter. I intend to continue running
[1:31:11] Speaker 34: through the finish line as a mayor of Orange County.
[1:31:14] Speaker 34: It's about six months from today. But in order for
[1:31:18] Speaker 34: me to receive the treatment that I need, I'm going
[1:31:23] Speaker 34: to have to come off the campaign trail. I have
[1:31:26] Speaker 34: to let something go.
[1:31:29] Speaker 29: I can.
[1:31:30] Speaker 34: Continue to do my job as mayor, take care of
[1:31:34] Speaker 34: my family and run for governor. So I made a
[1:31:39] Speaker 34: difficult decision. All those people who have supported me are
[1:31:44] Speaker 34: in this run, who have believed in me as I
[1:31:47] Speaker 34: have run for governor. I say thank you to all
[1:31:50] Speaker 34: of them. My campaign was evolving to the point where
[1:31:54] Speaker 34: we really could win the campaign. But if I have
[1:31:59] Speaker 34: to come off the campaign tril so that I can
[1:32:03] Speaker 34: still do my job, still do go to treatment, I
[1:32:07] Speaker 34: gotta let something go. So we have been prayer for
[1:32:11] Speaker 34: about the decision that I made. I just told my
[1:32:15] Speaker 34: children yesterday. Okay, I was told Monday.
[1:32:23] Speaker 2: And so.
[1:32:26] Speaker 34: Fortunate for me because I'm relatively healthy. I go to
[1:32:33] Speaker 34: the doctor on a regular basis. You know, one in
[1:32:36] Speaker 34: six men will get prostate cancer. With African American men,
[1:32:43] Speaker 34: it's even worse. I'm one in four and so don't
[1:32:49] Speaker 34: have a history of it in my family. But because
[1:32:53] Speaker 34: I have continued to go to the doctor take all
[1:32:57] Speaker 34: my various tests. I've gone through your everything that they
[1:33:00] Speaker 34: needed to do to verify.
[1:33:04] Speaker 10: What it is.
[1:33:06] Speaker 2: And so.
[1:33:09] Speaker 34: That's the bad news. But I'm on focus now on
[1:33:15] Speaker 34: my hell. I'm gonna focus on living. I'm not gonna
[1:33:20] Speaker 34: focus on running for another office. So that's the news
[1:33:24] Speaker 34: I've shared with you today. I realized that it's somewhat
[1:33:29] Speaker 34: breaking news all over the state of Florida, perhaps in
[1:33:34] Speaker 34: other places in the nation. But I had a wonderful career,
[1:33:38] Speaker 34: forty five year career where I have given one hundred percent.
[1:33:44] Speaker 34: During that time. I have not been home during hurricanes
[1:33:50] Speaker 34: other emergencies. I've been out serving the people. My prayer
[1:33:56] Speaker 34: was that I would continue to serve at a different level.
[1:34:00] Speaker 34: But if I don't take care of my own hell,
[1:34:04] Speaker 34: I won't serve anybody. I won't serve my family.
[1:34:07] Speaker 7: So thank y'all.
[1:34:08] Speaker 34: I'm not gonna take any questions on that at this time.
[1:34:12] Speaker 34: But what I say to all of you, may pray
[1:34:16] Speaker 34: for me, Pray for America. America has got some challenges.
[1:34:23] Speaker 34: Pray for America. Thank you all so much.
[1:34:26] Speaker 11: Certainly a tough announcement by Jerry Demmings and so prayers
[1:34:30] Speaker 11: for him and his family, and of course the message
[1:34:34] Speaker 11: to every brother out there, go to the doctor and
[1:34:36] Speaker 11: make sure that you get checked for prostate cancer. Folks,
[1:34:41] Speaker 11: it's time for Blackstar Network. Here lies a Brittey Noble.
[1:34:47] Speaker 35: A South Carolina family is still trying to understand how
[1:34:51] Speaker 35: a jury could have quit the man who shot their
[1:34:53] Speaker 35: son in the back. Former gas station owner Rick Chell
[1:34:57] Speaker 35: was found not guilty in the twenty.
[1:34:59] Speaker 15: Twenty three sh shooting death a.
[1:35:00] Speaker 35: Fourteen year old Cyrus Carmack Belton, a black teen. The
[1:35:05] Speaker 35: jury believed that Joe was defending the son Andy when
[1:35:09] Speaker 35: they chased Cyrus after Cyrus was wrongly accused of stealing
[1:35:13] Speaker 35: bottled water. That prosecutor said that Cyrus was running away
[1:35:17] Speaker 35: when he was shot in the back and maintained there
[1:35:20] Speaker 35: was no credible evidence that he had threatened anyone with
[1:35:22] Speaker 35: the weapon. Cyrus's parents are speaking out about the jury's
[1:35:27] Speaker 35: disappointing decision, and the California dog owner is charged with
[1:35:32] Speaker 35: murder in the beating and stabbing death of a black
[1:35:35] Speaker 35: man on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Fifty five year
[1:35:39] Speaker 35: old Patrick Perry was charged with murder for his alleged
[1:35:42] Speaker 35: role in a group attack that ended thirty seven year
[1:35:45] Speaker 35: old Barry Henderson's life.
[1:35:47] Speaker 15: Police say that Henderson was waiting.
[1:35:49] Speaker 35: For a bus when he was attacked by Perry's dog,
[1:35:52] Speaker 35: which he then stabbed in self defense. Perry and three
[1:35:55] Speaker 35: other men chase Henderson across the street and attacked and beat.
[1:36:00] Speaker 15: Him with the metal bat.
[1:36:02] Speaker 35: When Henderson dropped the knife he used on the dog,
[1:36:05] Speaker 35: Perry stabbed him with it. Henderson's family is demanding justice
[1:36:11] Speaker 35: and Bruce Filler Junior, Saul Hernandez, and Robert Garcia.
[1:36:17] Speaker 15: They have also been charged in Henderson's death and.
[1:36:21] Speaker 35: The black Alabama man will be executed, even though his
[1:36:24] Speaker 35: jury voted seven to five against the death penalty.
[1:36:28] Speaker 15: In two thousand, the judge.
[1:36:30] Speaker 35: Presiding over Jeffrey Lee's trial rejected the jury's recommendation that
[1:36:34] Speaker 35: Lee be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility
[1:36:37] Speaker 35: of parole, in order that he'd be put to death.
[1:36:40] Speaker 35: Alabama is one of a few states where a judge has.
[1:36:43] Speaker 15: The option of overruling the jurors.
[1:36:45] Speaker 35: On May twenty eighth, the US District Court judge Emily
[1:36:49] Speaker 35: Marx rejected Lee's latest legal appeal, concluding that he had
[1:36:53] Speaker 35: not successfully argued that his execution would amount to cruel
[1:36:58] Speaker 35: and unusual punishment. Earlier today, a federal district court denied
[1:37:02] Speaker 35: Lee's appeal, and his execution date, scheduled for June eleventh,
[1:37:06] Speaker 35: remains well after six years, some cities are now planning
[1:37:11] Speaker 35: to resurrect statues of Christopher Columbus and Confederate figures. Traditionalist
[1:37:18] Speaker 35: groups have been pressuring local governments through lawsuits and lobbying campaigns,
[1:37:23] Speaker 35: despite objections from black community leaders. Trump has ordered a
[1:37:26] Speaker 35: replica of Baltimore's removed statue of Columbus to be installed
[1:37:30] Speaker 35: on the White House grounds to show his support of
[1:37:33] Speaker 35: putting the statues back and Mackenzie Scott's is on track
[1:37:37] Speaker 35: to become the largest donor to historically black colleges and
[1:37:41] Speaker 35: universities and history. Since signing the Giving Pledge following her
[1:37:45] Speaker 35: twenty nineteen divorce from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Scott has
[1:37:49] Speaker 35: donated more than one point thirty four billion dollars to
[1:37:53] Speaker 35: HBCUs and organizations that support them. In March, she donated
[1:37:57] Speaker 35: forty two million dollars to Elizabeth City State University during the.
[1:38:02] Speaker 15: School's Founder's Day convocation.
[1:38:04] Speaker 35: That donation pushed Scott's total HBCU giving passed the billion
[1:38:08] Speaker 35: dollar mark. And expanded her to reach to more than
[1:38:12] Speaker 35: sixty black colleges and universities nationwide. Some of her largest
[1:38:17] Speaker 35: gifts include eight and eighty million dollars to Howard University,
[1:38:20] Speaker 35: sixty three million dollars to Morgan State University, and fifty
[1:38:24] Speaker 35: million each to Bowie State University and Norfolk State University.
[1:38:29] Speaker 15: Unlike major donors, Scott places.
[1:38:31] Speaker 35: No restrictions on how schools can spend the money, allowing
[1:38:35] Speaker 35: institutions to invest in scholarships, campus improvement, and student success programs. Well,
[1:38:43] Speaker 35: Spellman College has a new president. The Board of Trustees
[1:38:46] Speaker 35: of Spelling College selected doctor Ayana Howard as.
[1:38:49] Speaker 15: Their twelfth president.
[1:38:51] Speaker 35: She joins the institution from Ohio State University, where she
[1:38:54] Speaker 35: served as dean of the College of Engineering. Her career
[1:38:57] Speaker 35: spans multiple fields and technology and artificial intelligence. One of
[1:39:02] Speaker 35: her achievements includes her service at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Now,
[1:39:07] Speaker 35: she plans to continue expanding access to STEM education and
[1:39:11] Speaker 35: creating numerous opportunities for new generations of black students. Doctor
[1:39:16] Speaker 35: Howard will begin her duty as president on August first.
[1:39:21] Speaker 2: All right, Brittany, thanks a bunch folks.
[1:39:22] Speaker 11: Don't forget check out the Breakdown Britain Noble every day,
[1:39:25] Speaker 11: noon eastern. Right here on the Blackstar Network, noon eastern.
[1:39:28] Speaker 11: The Breakdown Brittay Noble, noon eastern on the Black Star Network.
[1:39:32] Speaker 11: All right, y'all, a couple of blocks from here, Donald
[1:39:34] Speaker 11: Trump has told you destroying the White House preparing for
[1:39:37] Speaker 11: this UFC fight.
[1:39:39] Speaker 2: I don't know what the hell it is.
[1:39:39] Speaker 11: I don't watch that crap anyway. On June fourteenth, literally
[1:39:43] Speaker 11: he is destroying the White House lawn. They are erecting
[1:39:46] Speaker 11: this huge stage and he actually wants to leave it up.
[1:39:49] Speaker 11: He tried to actually compare it to the Eiffel Tower. Dude,
[1:39:54] Speaker 11: you must be on meth. And so they are putting
[1:39:57] Speaker 11: this whole thing up. And so apparently one of the
[1:40:01] Speaker 11: USC's wrong, Matt, Yes, it's trash.
[1:40:05] Speaker 2: It's a trash. It's it's trash.
[1:40:09] Speaker 11: So one of the fighters, one of the USC champions,
[1:40:12] Speaker 11: Shawn Strickland, apparently is not invited because he's been critical
[1:40:17] Speaker 11: of Israel.
[1:40:18] Speaker 2: Uh and uh.
[1:40:20] Speaker 11: Actually he put out a quite hilarious video quote apologizing
[1:40:25] Speaker 11: for his comments. Well, there was another particular fighter, who
[1:40:30] Speaker 11: Bryce Mitchell, who was asked about it, and he.
[1:40:33] Speaker 36: Said this, I'm gonna I'm an economics major. I love
[1:40:39] Speaker 36: studying politics on the political side of things, not the
[1:40:42] Speaker 36: UFC's business.
[1:40:44] Speaker 2: That is, of course they're gonna say yes to it.
[1:40:47] Speaker 36: But what I think personally is that our government is
[1:40:50] Speaker 36: desecrating its role in society by entertaining sports. Our government
[1:40:57] Speaker 36: is to protect and serve the people, and it really
[1:41:00] Speaker 36: should be as.
[1:41:00] Speaker 7: Minimal as possible.
[1:41:02] Speaker 36: And when you're when you're doing all of this stuff,
[1:41:04] Speaker 36: hosting sportings events, it's really outside of what the goal
[1:41:09] Speaker 36: of the government was intended to be because our tax
[1:41:12] Speaker 36: dollars and resources are funding this operation. And like I said,
[1:41:16] Speaker 36: I'm not criticizing the UFC. I love Dana, I love Hunter,
[1:41:21] Speaker 36: I love Sean Mick, I love all of them. And
[1:41:24] Speaker 36: it's a it's an amazing thing. It's a once in
[1:41:26] Speaker 36: a lifetime thing. But the government should never be hosting
[1:41:30] Speaker 36: sporting events because there's more room for corruption and we
[1:41:34] Speaker 36: already have a corrupted government. And so that's my thoughts
[1:41:37] Speaker 36: on it, is that the government is supposed to protect us,
[1:41:40] Speaker 36: not entertain us.
[1:41:44] Speaker 2: No lies told there, Matt.
[1:41:48] Speaker 3: No.
[1:41:49] Speaker 18: I'm very impressed actually, because I think that that is
[1:41:53] Speaker 18: put perfectly. I mean, obviously we know it's there's so
[1:41:57] Speaker 18: much corruption, there's so many poor decisions being made, there's
[1:42:00] Speaker 18: so many self enrichment things going on. But I think
[1:42:03] Speaker 18: this is important, and I think what's interesting about this
[1:42:06] Speaker 18: is I always think this like the cognitive dissonance that
[1:42:09] Speaker 18: exists in people who for decades have talked about government,
[1:42:13] Speaker 18: small government, all that, and they are just in lockstep
[1:42:15] Speaker 18: now with the government invading people's private lives and not only.
[1:42:19] Speaker 19: Invading things, mandating how things need.
[1:42:21] Speaker 18: To happen, you know, basically blurring the lines between church
[1:42:26] Speaker 18: and the separation of state. I mean, what's supposed to
[1:42:29] Speaker 18: be the bedrock of our government, those things are all
[1:42:31] Speaker 18: being blurred. So I can appreciate how he said this,
[1:42:33] Speaker 18: and I think he was very succinct, but very correct
[1:42:35] Speaker 18: and direct, which is the government is not to entertain.
[1:42:38] Speaker 18: You're supposed to provide services. So you're doing UFC at
[1:42:41] Speaker 18: the White House. That's, like, per se, not your job.
[1:42:43] Speaker 18: And it's also a waste of our taxpayer dollars. But
[1:42:46] Speaker 18: we know that's Trump and his brand of branding is
[1:42:49] Speaker 18: he wants to, you know, act like he's a prize
[1:42:52] Speaker 18: fight promoter or something don king, and that's not how
[1:42:54] Speaker 18: it works.
[1:42:54] Speaker 19: It's supposed to be the president, supposed to provide services.
[1:42:57] Speaker 2: And that's it.
[1:42:59] Speaker 11: It's just ridicut is what he's doing to the White
[1:43:02] Speaker 11: House lawn. What he's doing, I mean, I mean, And
[1:43:05] Speaker 11: the problem is.
[1:43:06] Speaker 2: He's a brute. He's a dictator.
[1:43:07] Speaker 11: His whole dealer is I can do whatever I want.
[1:43:10] Speaker 11: When Cooney, the hell with President Candy. I'm gonna stick
[1:43:13] Speaker 11: my name on the Candy Center. I'm just gonna tear
[1:43:15] Speaker 11: down the East Wing. I don't need to prove. I
[1:43:17] Speaker 11: don't care what y'all have to say. I'm gonna build
[1:43:19] Speaker 11: a two hundred and fifty foot arch whatever.
[1:43:22] Speaker 2: I mean.
[1:43:22] Speaker 11: He's just and again, what he's doing, I mean, they
[1:43:25] Speaker 11: actually argue in federal court. They actually argue with this
[1:43:30] Speaker 11: is federal court, when Cooney that even federal judges can't
[1:43:36] Speaker 11: tell them what to do, even if they know they're
[1:43:39] Speaker 11: doing something illegal. They even argue that Trump has the
[1:43:42] Speaker 11: authority to tear the Statue of Liary down if he
[1:43:44] Speaker 11: wants to.
[1:43:45] Speaker 2: That's how nothing these people are.
[1:43:49] Speaker 4: It's actually sick Roland.
[1:43:51] Speaker 7: And let's call this what it is.
[1:43:52] Speaker 22: Trump is throwing himself his eightieth birthday party. This is
[1:43:55] Speaker 22: his birthday party. Y'all don't see that America who fifty
[1:43:59] Speaker 22: happens to inside with his eightieth birthday party on the
[1:44:02] Speaker 22: fourteenth of June.
[1:44:03] Speaker 2: Light.
[1:44:03] Speaker 4: I mean, this is this is a scheme, right, and
[1:44:07] Speaker 4: he continues to do these things, but he's not really
[1:44:09] Speaker 4: doing a good job of hiding them.
[1:44:11] Speaker 19: And you know, he's a.
[1:44:13] Speaker 4: Type of person who likes to do these really grand
[1:44:16] Speaker 4: gestures with sixty million dollars of the American people's money,
[1:44:21] Speaker 4: by the way, and so we have to really be
[1:44:23] Speaker 4: concerned about this because while he's using sixty million dollars
[1:44:27] Speaker 4: to throw himself a grand prize fighting birthday party, this
[1:44:30] Speaker 4: money could really be put back into the American people's
[1:44:33] Speaker 4: pockets to subsidize these gas prices that are continuing to
[1:44:37] Speaker 4: go up and up and up. When we just talked
[1:44:39] Speaker 4: about the economy, we have to think about the fact
[1:44:42] Speaker 4: that these things are directly happening right in our backyard,
[1:44:45] Speaker 4: right Like, not only are they dismembering one of the
[1:44:48] Speaker 4: most oldest and prestigious institutions, the White House. I mean,
[1:44:51] Speaker 4: we see it here in the background, but he's also
[1:44:53] Speaker 4: taking money out of the hands of the American people
[1:44:56] Speaker 4: and putting it into pockets of prize fighters putting it
[1:44:59] Speaker 4: into pockets. So people who are standing to benefit and
[1:45:02] Speaker 4: profit from this one, there's really a better use for
[1:45:04] Speaker 4: the money. So it's a disappointment, yes, But is it
[1:45:07] Speaker 4: a surprise. Absolutely not.
[1:45:09] Speaker 11: And that's all she is, right, She's right, Michael. This
[1:45:15] Speaker 11: is just him doing a birthday party. Remember he last
[1:45:17] Speaker 11: his first term, he wanted to do this big old
[1:45:19] Speaker 11: military parade and so now he's doing this and he's like, yo,
[1:45:23] Speaker 11: I could do whatever I want.
[1:45:24] Speaker 2: No, what can stop me?
[1:45:27] Speaker 6: Well, you remember last year he had his little military
[1:45:29] Speaker 6: parade with the squeaking tanks and the poor turnout, you know,
[1:45:34] Speaker 6: things of that.
[1:45:34] Speaker 7: Nature, you know, for his birthday. So yeah, this is
[1:45:37] Speaker 7: what this is.
[1:45:38] Speaker 6: But I agree with UFC fighter Bryce Mitchell. Government should
[1:45:46] Speaker 6: not be involved in sports, and this is Donald Trump
[1:45:49] Speaker 6: once again getting involved in culture wars. Okay, this is
[1:45:54] Speaker 6: something that we saw in the first administration when he
[1:45:56] Speaker 6: attacked Colin Kaepernick, called the NFL players who were kneeling sobs.
[1:46:02] Speaker 7: Okay, and Donald Trump, you know, UFC appeals to a lot.
[1:46:08] Speaker 6: Of young white men and a lot of white men
[1:46:10] Speaker 6: in their early twenties, things like this, right, So he
[1:46:14] Speaker 6: is bringing this at the same time when a lot
[1:46:17] Speaker 6: of these white men in the early twenties voted for
[1:46:21] Speaker 6: Trump the first time in twenty twenty four, and they're
[1:46:24] Speaker 6: turning on him. He's he's reeling them back in with
[1:46:27] Speaker 6: the culture wars, right, So he has the UFC here
[1:46:31] Speaker 6: on the White House line. And I want to know, Okay,
[1:46:36] Speaker 6: who has the contract to build this oct the guy
[1:46:39] Speaker 6: who has the contract for all this, Who's who's really
[1:46:41] Speaker 6: making the money off of all of this as well?
[1:46:44] Speaker 2: Well, hell well we will.
[1:46:46] Speaker 11: We've already seen the other story where people who've given Trump,
[1:46:49] Speaker 11: you know, money for the ballroom, they've locked up some
[1:46:53] Speaker 11: fifty or five hundred billion in federal contracts. So he's
[1:46:57] Speaker 11: just passing stuff out like canon. So that's just look,
[1:47:00] Speaker 11: he's corrupt. Uh uh, he he's he's a thug, he's
[1:47:05] Speaker 11: all of that. And I can guarantee I don't watch
[1:47:08] Speaker 11: UFC anyway.
[1:47:09] Speaker 6: Uh.
[1:47:09] Speaker 2: Dana White is a wife beater.
[1:47:11] Speaker 8: Uh.
[1:47:11] Speaker 11: And he's got lots of racists who are in this
[1:47:15] Speaker 11: uh who who fight for him? Uh And so uh yeah,
[1:47:19] Speaker 11: they can have a little bullshit party, but UH ain't
[1:47:21] Speaker 11: gonna be watching, uh, Folks. Cons Woman Jasmine Crockett, you
[1:47:26] Speaker 11: know what, So let's roll the crocket chronicles.
[1:47:28] Speaker 26: Joe, there's a lot of construction.
[1:47:36] Speaker 2: Don't worry about it. Here's the deal.
[1:47:37] Speaker 6: Uh.
[1:47:37] Speaker 2: Cons Woman Jasmin Crockett had a congression of hearing. Let's
[1:47:40] Speaker 2: just say uh.
[1:47:41] Speaker 11: She uh had a few words to say about the
[1:47:45] Speaker 11: extreme court led by Chief Justice John Roberts.
[1:47:49] Speaker 14: It's hard to imagine how you can argue.
[1:47:56] Speaker 37: With a straight face that this is what we should
[1:47:58] Speaker 37: be doing in this moment forever, you see, because this
[1:48:02] Speaker 37: is the same time as you heard.
[1:48:04] Speaker 14: An emotional Representative Cohen.
[1:48:07] Speaker 37: Now, Representative Cohen is a white man, but in Memphis, Tennessee,
[1:48:13] Speaker 37: the district that he represents, it is a majority black district,
[1:48:17] Speaker 37: and black folk decided that he should be in Congress
[1:48:21] Speaker 37: and be their voice. When you look at what they
[1:48:24] Speaker 37: are proposing to do in Georgia, where it's my understanding
[1:48:28] Speaker 37: that they plan to go after Lucy mcbath's seat. Yet again,
[1:48:34] Speaker 37: when you look at the type of seat that Hank
[1:48:36] Speaker 37: Johnson currently sits in, it is also a vra district.
[1:48:41] Speaker 37: When you look at the state that they started in Texas,
[1:48:45] Speaker 37: they decided to go after majority minority districts to the
[1:48:48] Speaker 37: extent the two black incumbents down in Houston just went
[1:48:52] Speaker 37: head to head for a seat in which only one
[1:48:55] Speaker 37: would survive. We know that there are currently debates taking
[1:48:59] Speaker 37: place because Debbie Wasserman Schultz is now wanting to run
[1:49:02] Speaker 37: in one of the few VR districts that is left
[1:49:06] Speaker 37: so that black people can have representation. You see, the
[1:49:10] Speaker 37: reason that y'all want to do this right now isn't
[1:49:13] Speaker 37: because you're afraid that we are after a power grab.
[1:49:16] Speaker 37: It's because you want to lock in this racist agenda
[1:49:21] Speaker 37: for decades to come, because that's exactly who this court is.
[1:49:26] Speaker 37: This court is racist, This court is immoral, and this
[1:49:30] Speaker 37: court lacks any semblance of ethics. The fact that this
[1:49:35] Speaker 37: court just on last night decided that they want to
[1:49:38] Speaker 37: go after yet another Alabama seat, and then they decided
[1:49:42] Speaker 37: to throw out the votes of the voters in Louisiana
[1:49:46] Speaker 37: because they decided that they wanted to go after yet
[1:49:49] Speaker 37: another black seat in Louisiana. The fact that Virginia decided
[1:49:53] Speaker 37: to stand up and fight back, and it was this
[1:49:55] Speaker 37: same Supreme Court that decided forget the will of the
[1:49:59] Speaker 37: people and the that they voted.
[1:50:01] Speaker 14: We're gonna throw that out.
[1:50:03] Speaker 37: This isn't what democracy is supposed to be. So let
[1:50:06] Speaker 37: me be clear about a couple of things. Number One,
[1:50:08] Speaker 37: the court absolutely needs to be expanded, because it's been
[1:50:11] Speaker 37: expanded in the past. And yes, it makes sense if
[1:50:14] Speaker 37: we have thirteen circuit courts, then we should have thirteen judges.
[1:50:19] Speaker 37: But let's just pretend that the size of America was
[1:50:21] Speaker 37: the same. Let's pretend that the complexity of the cases
[1:50:24] Speaker 37: was the same as it was when we originally got
[1:50:26] Speaker 37: the nine.
[1:50:27] Speaker 14: Let's pretend all those things.
[1:50:28] Speaker 37: I would still argue that it is time to not
[1:50:31] Speaker 37: only expand the court, to introduce some form of ethics,
[1:50:34] Speaker 37: and to put term limits on because you have bad
[1:50:37] Speaker 37: actors like Mitch McConnell. This court was packed by the Republicans.
[1:50:45] Speaker 14: And that is the reason you don't want it unpacked.
[1:50:48] Speaker 37: You see, as a trained attorney, I don't understand how
[1:50:51] Speaker 37: the very same court could say that in the state
[1:50:54] Speaker 37: of Texas four days before we were to have the
[1:50:57] Speaker 37: end of filing, it is too close the end of filing,
[1:51:01] Speaker 37: and so therefore we've got to go ahead and go
[1:51:03] Speaker 37: forward with these intentionally discriminatory maps. And these are the
[1:51:08] Speaker 37: words and the characterization of a Trump appointed justice. It's
[1:51:11] Speaker 37: got to be bad when a Trump appointed justice decides
[1:51:14] Speaker 37: that something is racist and is willing to call a
[1:51:17] Speaker 37: thing a thing and put it into writing.
[1:51:19] Speaker 15: But they did that.
[1:51:20] Speaker 14: They didn't just say it, They laid it out in
[1:51:22] Speaker 14: an opinion that was more than one hundred pages long.
[1:51:26] Speaker 37: But this very same court will decide that after votes
[1:51:29] Speaker 37: have been cast, to throw those votes out. The reason
[1:51:32] Speaker 37: that we need to do something about this court is
[1:51:34] Speaker 37: because this court has decided that it will ben to
[1:51:37] Speaker 37: the will.
[1:51:39] Speaker 14: Of a wannabe king.
[1:51:41] Speaker 37: We have never in the history of this country needed
[1:51:43] Speaker 37: a court to say that absolute immunity should be given
[1:51:47] Speaker 37: to a president because historically we don't actually keep criminals
[1:51:52] Speaker 37: in the presidency. We know that even after he had
[1:51:56] Speaker 37: been found guilty by a jury of his peers, y'all
[1:52:00] Speaker 37: went out and y'all wanted to say, yes, this is
[1:52:02] Speaker 37: our guy, the same way that right now in the
[1:52:05] Speaker 37: state of Texas for the Texas Senate race. So I'm
[1:52:08] Speaker 37: sure all of y'all will line up behind that criminal
[1:52:11] Speaker 37: as well.
[1:52:13] Speaker 14: So I don't want to hear about law and order.
[1:52:14] Speaker 14: I don't want to hear about this is the right
[1:52:16] Speaker 14: thing to do. Just be honest about what it is.
[1:52:18] Speaker 37: Because y'all are basically saying that we're stupid.
[1:52:21] Speaker 14: You're playing in our faces.
[1:52:23] Speaker 37: We know that this is about locking in this agenda
[1:52:26] Speaker 37: because you will never do right by the people. The
[1:52:30] Speaker 37: reason that we have elections is because the people are
[1:52:32] Speaker 37: supposed to decide whether or not your policies are actually
[1:52:36] Speaker 37: working for them. But because you have killed our economy,
[1:52:39] Speaker 37: because we are sitting in the midst of an unconstitutional,
[1:52:43] Speaker 37: unlawful war, because we have a president that is lining
[1:52:47] Speaker 37: his pockets in the pockets of his friends and his
[1:52:49] Speaker 37: families in violation of the emoluments Clause and so many
[1:52:52] Speaker 37: other laws. Y'all want to lock in absolute power by
[1:52:57] Speaker 37: any means necessary. And the last thing that I'll say,
[1:53:00] Speaker 37: I got to respect your gangster, because that's exactly how
[1:53:03] Speaker 37: y'alla acted like real gangsters.
[1:53:05] Speaker 14: Y'all are mom being out and that's one.
[1:53:08] Speaker 37: Reason that the Democrats are struggling right now, because they
[1:53:10] Speaker 37: have always tried to play by the rules. I am
[1:53:13] Speaker 37: here to say that I applaud the people of Virginia.
[1:53:15] Speaker 37: I am here to say that I applaud the people
[1:53:17] Speaker 37: of California. I am here to say that we need
[1:53:20] Speaker 37: to meet fire with fire and fight y'all tooth and
[1:53:24] Speaker 37: nail so that we can.
[1:53:25] Speaker 19: Do right by the.
[1:53:27] Speaker 2: I will, Matt. That's why I call them the extreme Court.
[1:53:35] Speaker 18: I really like how she highlighted, you know, the contradiction
[1:53:39] Speaker 18: and some of the decisions that they've made. And I think,
[1:53:42] Speaker 18: you know, I don't have anything to add. I think
[1:53:44] Speaker 18: she encapsulated it perfectly. But I think one thing that's
[1:53:46] Speaker 18: important for people to remember is Congress is supposed to
[1:53:50] Speaker 18: act as a check on the federal judiciary.
[1:53:53] Speaker 19: Right, That's why we have checks and balances.
[1:53:55] Speaker 18: So when you see a federal judge say, hey, weaponization
[1:54:00] Speaker 18: fund is not legal, but then you see the Senate
[1:54:03] Speaker 18: vote to set it up anyway, it's a both and situation.
[1:54:07] Speaker 18: It's not only the problem that the Supreme Court has
[1:54:10] Speaker 18: with some of its rulings, which I struggle with because
[1:54:12] Speaker 18: it sounds a lot often like they pick a destination
[1:54:16] Speaker 18: and they try to make their legal ruling match that,
[1:54:18] Speaker 18: and that's a difficult thing. But they are partisan. You know,
[1:54:21] Speaker 18: we're seeing that and that's not supposed to be what's
[1:54:24] Speaker 18: happening in courts. But the and part of that is
[1:54:27] Speaker 18: Congress is supposed to be able to push back on that.
[1:54:30] Speaker 18: So if a federal judge says this is not a legal,
[1:54:33] Speaker 18: you know fund, it's not constitutional this fund being set up.
[1:54:36] Speaker 18: Congress is not supposed to then go behind them and
[1:54:38] Speaker 18: set it up through legislation or vote for it. So,
[1:54:42] Speaker 18: you know, people need to be mad at I think
[1:54:43] Speaker 18: both of those branch, all three branches in this circumstance,
[1:54:46] Speaker 18: but being mad at a Congress that is feckless, that
[1:54:48] Speaker 18: will not stand up and say this is wrong. And
[1:54:50] Speaker 18: in fact, we agree with that federal judge. These things
[1:54:53] Speaker 18: have an interplay, and we've got to be mad at
[1:54:55] Speaker 18: both parts.
[1:54:56] Speaker 4: And Coney, first off, I want to say that it's
[1:55:01] Speaker 4: a travesty that we're losing my sore roar Congresswoman Crockett
[1:55:05] Speaker 4: and Congress.
[1:55:05] Speaker 2: I mean, this woman is.
[1:55:07] Speaker 4: Truly prolific and truly speaks truth to power, and I
[1:55:11] Speaker 4: just can't believe we're losing a force like her. But
[1:55:14] Speaker 4: I digress. I want to talk more about the race
[1:55:18] Speaker 4: that's going on in Florida that she mentioned with Congresswoman
[1:55:22] Speaker 4: Washerman Schultz, because that's my district, it's District twenty down
[1:55:27] Speaker 4: in Florida that Sheila Scherfelice McCormick was recently ousted from.
[1:55:31] Speaker 4: This is a heavily contested seat Roland and a heavily
[1:55:34] Speaker 4: contested race. In fact, Uncle Luke is running for that position.
[1:55:38] Speaker 4: Former Mayor Dale Holness is running for this position, so
[1:55:42] Speaker 4: it's a highly contested race. And I really think it's
[1:55:45] Speaker 4: interesting the.
[1:55:46] Speaker 15: Fact that.
[1:55:48] Speaker 4: Leader Jeffery's actually withheld from giving washer Min Scheltz his endorsement,
[1:55:54] Speaker 4: and that speaks volumes because again we know washer Mincheltz
[1:55:59] Speaker 4: is actually Democrats white woman, but she gives a Democrat.
[1:56:02] Speaker 4: But I think what the bigger message here that Congresswoman
[1:56:05] Speaker 4: Crockett was trying to lose a day is that because
[1:56:09] Speaker 4: the map has been carved up the way it has
[1:56:11] Speaker 4: to be GOP friendly, we're seeing now a lot of
[1:56:15] Speaker 4: people run in districts that have not historically been their districts,
[1:56:19] Speaker 4: right and Wie Wasserman Schultz is an example of that
[1:56:23] Speaker 4: of someone who's running in a majority minority district that
[1:56:27] Speaker 4: has been historically represented by a black lawmaker for over
[1:56:32] Speaker 4: three decades. So this is really a historical seat that
[1:56:35] Speaker 4: she's running for. And I want to make sure that
[1:56:37] Speaker 4: we're paying attention to that because Florida right now is
[1:56:42] Speaker 4: really a state that we have to pay attention to
[1:56:45] Speaker 4: not only because of what we just saw earlier in
[1:56:47] Speaker 4: the show with the gubernatorial race, right, we just saw
[1:56:50] Speaker 4: that Mayor Mayor Demi stepped down from the race, but
[1:56:54] Speaker 4: now we're seeing, Okay, there's a real opportunity here for
[1:56:57] Speaker 4: this majority black district to be actually legislated by a
[1:57:02] Speaker 4: non black person. And so that is concerning when you
[1:57:05] Speaker 4: think about what representation really means in the state of Florida.
[1:57:09] Speaker 4: And so I want to make sure that we're paying
[1:57:11] Speaker 4: attention to that, not only because of the state of Florida,
[1:57:14] Speaker 4: but the wider implications of what losing a Democratic seat
[1:57:18] Speaker 4: will mean in Congress.
[1:57:21] Speaker 6: Michael, Yeah, I agree with representing the Jasmine Crockett, and
[1:57:28] Speaker 6: I'm sorry that we're losing her as well, but I
[1:57:31] Speaker 6: agree with her analysis, and yes, the course should be expanded.
[1:57:34] Speaker 6: We know that the number of Supreme Court justices has
[1:57:38] Speaker 6: changed seven times throughout history, and we know it was
[1:57:42] Speaker 6: last changed in eighteen sixty nine and in the nineteenth century.
[1:57:47] Speaker 6: We also know that Congress changed the number of Supreme
[1:57:51] Speaker 6: Court justices to fall in line with how many federal
[1:57:55] Speaker 6: districts there were as well. So she said, you know
[1:57:58] Speaker 6: the thirteen. Now, oh yeah, we need to expand this,
[1:58:02] Speaker 6: but that the expansion will only happen after Trump Lee's
[1:58:08] Speaker 6: office and Democrats have to take back control of the House,
[1:58:11] Speaker 6: the Senate, and the White House because Republicans are not
[1:58:14] Speaker 6: going to vote for this. We have people have to
[1:58:17] Speaker 6: understand this. This is one of the consequences of the
[1:58:20] Speaker 6: previous elections. And this is while voting is so important
[1:58:23] Speaker 6: that that bill has to pass the House, the Senate
[1:58:26] Speaker 6: and be signed in the law by President to expand
[1:58:29] Speaker 6: the courts. So, as we talked about before Roland, and
[1:58:33] Speaker 6: as we talked about how all this goes back to
[1:58:35] Speaker 6: the twenty sixteen election, I can't stress enough.
[1:58:39] Speaker 7: I was covering this election on.
[1:58:40] Speaker 6: Nine ten AM WFDF here and the Trade, and I
[1:58:43] Speaker 6: watched one hundred I watched about one hundred speeches that
[1:58:46] Speaker 6: Trump did, as well as interviews with Trump supporters, and
[1:58:50] Speaker 6: they said that that election was about the Supreme Court
[1:58:54] Speaker 6: and the Federal Court. And unfortunately a lot of African
[1:58:57] Speaker 6: Americans didn't understand that.
[1:58:59] Speaker 26: And we are seeing the consequences of this right now.
[1:59:05] Speaker 2: Well that's exactly the case.
[1:59:07] Speaker 11: All right, then, let me thank Michael Ncooney and Matt
[1:59:11] Speaker 11: Fabin on the show and yes, Matt, I am king petty.
[1:59:16] Speaker 2: You're absolutely right, you damn skippy. All right, then let
[1:59:20] Speaker 2: me folks. On Wednesday, I flew.
[1:59:21] Speaker 11: To Chicago for a media day for the Obama Presidential Center.
[1:59:26] Speaker 11: It is going to open to the public with a
[1:59:27] Speaker 11: big grand party on June eighteenth, and got a chance
[1:59:32] Speaker 11: to again look at the other nineteen acre campus in
[1:59:37] Speaker 11: addition to the museum, the center, and here is your
[1:59:41] Speaker 11: first look at it.
[1:59:44] Speaker 15: The purpose of.
[1:59:46] Speaker 38: The Obama Presidential Center is to bring to life this
[1:59:50] Speaker 38: idea that ordinary people can do extraordinary things. And I
[1:59:56] Speaker 38: had the opportunity back in twenty sixteen. I was asked
[2:00:01] Speaker 38: to come and be our first vice president of Civic Engagement,
[2:00:06] Speaker 38: and I started this conversation with our neighbors, with the
[2:00:11] Speaker 38: city of Chicago, with people cross the country and around
[2:00:17] Speaker 38: the world who helped bring this to life.
[2:00:20] Speaker 14: This is the permanent home for Hope.
[2:00:23] Speaker 39: When you walk through the lobby, that's the first thing
[2:00:26] Speaker 39: you're going to see is a beautiful piece of art
[2:00:29] Speaker 39: that says hope. And y'all who are old enough to
[2:00:32] Speaker 39: remember his campaign, and you will remember that it was
[2:00:34] Speaker 39: all about hope and change and you heard in the
[2:00:37] Speaker 39: video his remarks about the fact that this is still
[2:00:40] Speaker 39: a journey that he and Michelle Obama hun so near well.
[2:00:44] Speaker 39: I should say I started out at the very beginning
[2:00:48] Speaker 39: of President Obama's administration, a coach here at his transition,
[2:00:51] Speaker 39: and I served all eight years. And as we neared
[2:00:54] Speaker 39: the end of the last year, he began thinking about
[2:00:57] Speaker 39: what kind of a library he wanted to have, and
[2:00:59] Speaker 39: he said things were for sure. Number one, he did
[2:01:03] Speaker 39: not want it to simply be a time capsule looking
[2:01:05] Speaker 39: at his presidency and isolation, which is why we heard
[2:01:09] Speaker 39: him narrate that we begin with the people upon whose
[2:01:11] Speaker 39: shoulders he stood, the people who made his journey possible,
[2:01:15] Speaker 39: beginning with the declaration of independence, slavery reconstruction, the suffrage movement,
[2:01:23] Speaker 39: the civil rights movement, all in the different ways in
[2:01:26] Speaker 39: which ordinary people work together to do extraordinary things that
[2:01:31] Speaker 39: led to his presidency. So he wanted his presidency to
[2:01:34] Speaker 39: put in context in the museum, which we've done. The
[2:01:38] Speaker 39: other thing he said is that my work is not done.
[2:01:40] Speaker 39: I'm still pretty young. He was pretty young when he
[2:01:42] Speaker 39: left office. Pretty gray now, but pretty young back then.
[2:01:45] Speaker 39: I digress, And so he wanted to make sure that
[2:01:49] Speaker 39: he and Michelle Obama had a permanent home to continue
[2:01:53] Speaker 39: the work that they began right after he left office.
[2:01:56] Speaker 39: And you're going to hear from Tina Chin in a
[2:01:57] Speaker 39: minute about all of our programs. He wanted to ensure
[2:02:01] Speaker 39: that when people visited the campus, it wasn't a passive experience.
[2:02:05] Speaker 39: He wanted them to be able to engage with us.
[2:02:07] Speaker 39: And you'll see through many of our videos are interactive
[2:02:11] Speaker 39: and the displays are interactive, and he wanted people to
[2:02:14] Speaker 39: feel excited and to see the stories of the ordinary
[2:02:17] Speaker 39: people who made these extraordinary things happen and feel connected
[2:02:21] Speaker 39: to those stories. That was the magic of why he
[2:02:25] Speaker 39: won his presidency twice, and that's the magic that he
[2:02:29] Speaker 39: wants to instill in the next generation of leaders to
[2:02:31] Speaker 39: realize that part of leadership is motivating people to do
[2:02:35] Speaker 39: things that they didn't think were possible. And I think
[2:02:37] Speaker 39: back on those field organizers in Iowa working through the
[2:02:41] Speaker 39: dead of winter trying to advocate for somebody who had
[2:02:44] Speaker 39: a funny name, who was from the South side of Chicago,
[2:02:47] Speaker 39: and it was hard work, but they believed in something better,
[2:02:50] Speaker 39: that they could be a part of something bigger and
[2:02:52] Speaker 39: more important than themselves.
[2:02:54] Speaker 9: As you tour the campus, I want you to imagine
[2:02:56] Speaker 9: the kinds of programs that could take place here in
[2:02:58] Speaker 9: this very space.
[2:02:59] Speaker 5: We're going to have warm talks and musical.
[2:03:01] Speaker 9: Performances that will be open and available starting at our
[2:03:05] Speaker 9: grand opening weekend, you know, June nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty first.
[2:03:09] Speaker 9: In the Fruit and Vegetable Garden, we have a collaboration
[2:03:12] Speaker 9: with the Urban Growers Collective as our partner to really
[2:03:14] Speaker 9: teach people about urban horticulture and how to grow fruits
[2:03:18] Speaker 9: and vegetables in a healthy way in an urban setting,
[2:03:20] Speaker 9: and then what to do with those fruits and vegetables
[2:03:22] Speaker 9: at our garden classroom. We have a branch of the
[2:03:25] Speaker 9: Chicago Public Library because we really wanted a public public space.
[2:03:29] Speaker 9: It's the newest branch in the fabulous Chicago Public Library system.
[2:03:33] Speaker 9: Within that there is a Presidential Reading Room, which is
[2:03:36] Speaker 9: inspired by the not only the books written by the
[2:03:39] Speaker 9: President the first Lady, but the books that have inspired them,
[2:03:41] Speaker 9: and folks have a contemplative place to go in there,
[2:03:44] Speaker 9: sit down, take a book, read it, and you think
[2:03:48] Speaker 9: about what change they.
[2:03:49] Speaker 4: Want to make in the world.
[2:03:50] Speaker 9: We've got an incredible playground. We've had a water walkway.
[2:03:54] Speaker 9: We are going to have a senior's walking program that
[2:03:56] Speaker 9: will start in August. And our home court is our
[2:04:00] Speaker 9: you know, full sized NBA regulation quality basketball court. Of course,
[2:04:04] Speaker 9: it is Barack Obama's residential center, so of course we
[2:04:08] Speaker 9: have a basketball court here, but as more than that,
[2:04:11] Speaker 9: it's our athletic center. There are classrooms in it. It's
[2:04:14] Speaker 9: also our largest convenience space. We have a partnership already
[2:04:18] Speaker 9: with after school Matters that we've announced. Many of you
[2:04:20] Speaker 9: from Chicago will know it as the premiere after school
[2:04:23] Speaker 9: program here in Chicago, operating programs across the city. We're
[2:04:27] Speaker 9: going to be their newest location where we're collaborating on
[2:04:30] Speaker 9: a teen action lab to do sports activations and teaching.
[2:04:34] Speaker 9: There also activations in the garden, activations in our media suite,
[2:04:38] Speaker 9: which is right downstairs from here. We have a fully
[2:04:40] Speaker 9: equipped recording studio and performance space for kids to learn
[2:04:45] Speaker 9: about media. We'll kind of partner with you media from
[2:04:48] Speaker 9: the Chicago Public Library as well to do that work
[2:04:52] Speaker 9: and you know, hopefully to also learn about careers and
[2:04:55] Speaker 9: evolve over time. We're going to start small, We're going
[2:04:58] Speaker 9: to start gradually, but this will be a place we
[2:05:01] Speaker 9: hope over time and the decades to come, that we
[2:05:04] Speaker 9: will be around where we'd be a place of gathering,
[2:05:06] Speaker 9: not just for the people in Chicago. We are an
[2:05:08] Speaker 9: open public park and space. The only ticketed floors are
[2:05:11] Speaker 9: the four museum floors. The rest of everything you see,
[2:05:13] Speaker 9: including that incredible Hope and Change lobby in the ground
[2:05:17] Speaker 9: floor of the museum, are free and open to the public.
[2:05:20] Speaker 9: So we want the public to engage with us as
[2:05:22] Speaker 9: a public space, but we also want the world to
[2:05:24] Speaker 9: come here so that we will bring our global leaders here.
[2:05:27] Speaker 9: We will bring leaders from other world to talk about
[2:05:29] Speaker 9: things like democracy, about how art can propel us some democracy,
[2:05:33] Speaker 9: how change can happen, and so it will be a
[2:05:36] Speaker 9: gathering space for people across the country, around the world,
[2:05:39] Speaker 9: and from right here at home.
[2:05:42] Speaker 12: I was born in Chicago, I was raised by Chicago.
[2:05:47] Speaker 40: I know what Chicago was like before this Presidential Center
[2:05:52] Speaker 40: was here, and what this Presidential Center means in the
[2:05:56] Speaker 40: larger civic.
[2:05:57] Speaker 12: Conversation that happens in our city. This is a unique place.
[2:06:04] Speaker 40: This is a place where people from South Shore or
[2:06:08] Speaker 40: South Korea are now going to have a place to
[2:06:11] Speaker 40: come to to be inspired, to be empowered, and to
[2:06:15] Speaker 40: connect where they can share stories and values about how
[2:06:19] Speaker 40: they're going to go back to their communities and be
[2:06:22] Speaker 40: change makers. We're expecting, over the course of a year,
[2:06:28] Speaker 40: over six hundred thousand people to come to the museum alone.
[2:06:34] Speaker 40: That's not including people who will simply come to the
[2:06:37] Speaker 40: campus to experience the twenty eight pieces of commissioned art,
[2:06:41] Speaker 40: to experience the playground, to experience home court.
[2:06:46] Speaker 12: This is going to be a welcoming place. I often say.
[2:06:55] Speaker 40: I grew up in a house where we were not
[2:06:57] Speaker 40: allowed to play in the living room. Some of you
[2:07:01] Speaker 40: know what I'm talking about. And in fact, because they
[2:07:06] Speaker 40: knew that we would play in the living room, they
[2:07:08] Speaker 40: put plastic on the furniture, so in case you disobeyed,
[2:07:12] Speaker 40: you still would not ruin the furniture. But what's interesting
[2:07:16] Speaker 40: about the living room is that it was the one
[2:07:18] Speaker 40: place in the house where families invested the most resources
[2:07:22] Speaker 40: for the presentation that they had done well with their
[2:07:25] Speaker 40: families and their friends. It was the one place, the
[2:07:30] Speaker 40: one room in the house that was for everyone else
[2:07:33] Speaker 40: but the people who lived there. For a very long time,
[2:07:39] Speaker 40: Chicago has been like a living room with plastic on
[2:07:41] Speaker 40: the furniture. This Obama Presidential Center on the South Side
[2:07:47] Speaker 40: of Chicago is going to become the new living room
[2:07:51] Speaker 40: for the world. They're going to have the opportunity to
[2:07:54] Speaker 40: come here to experience an extraordinary museum presentation that Louise
[2:08:00] Speaker 40: lend has had the opportunity.
[2:08:01] Speaker 12: To curate and to direct. You'll hear from her in
[2:08:03] Speaker 12: a minute.
[2:08:05] Speaker 40: They're going to have an opportunity to come into these
[2:08:07] Speaker 40: spaces and to learn and to connect so that they
[2:08:12] Speaker 40: can be change makers in their communities.
[2:08:15] Speaker 41: We were tasked in many ways by President and Missus
[2:08:17] Speaker 41: Obama to ensure, as Valerie mentioned, that this is not
[2:08:21] Speaker 41: a time capsule. It's not just about that moment of
[2:08:24] Speaker 41: circa two thousand and seven to circa twenty seventeen. Rather,
[2:08:28] Speaker 41: the story is embedded in a nuanced contextual history, but
[2:08:32] Speaker 41: it's also incredibly forward looking. It is about the power
[2:08:36] Speaker 41: and possibility of everyday people to make change. While we're
[2:08:40] Speaker 41: also mindful that the story of the nation's forty fourth president,
[2:08:44] Speaker 41: the first black president, is the story of someone who
[2:08:48] Speaker 41: began their career path as a community organizer here on
[2:08:52] Speaker 41: the South Side of Chicago. Barack Obama is also a creative,
[2:08:57] Speaker 41: innovative thinker, we think of him as a reader, writer, thinker,
[2:09:01] Speaker 41: and so again the power of words is embedded in
[2:09:04] Speaker 41: the experience across each of the levels of the museum.
[2:09:08] Speaker 41: So we begin with the nuanced contextual history. We begin
[2:09:13] Speaker 41: with a declaration of independence in dialogue with Native American petitions,
[2:09:17] Speaker 41: So medially it is about the voice of everyday people
[2:09:21] Speaker 41: advocating for their rights. We take the visitor through a
[2:09:25] Speaker 41: journey that highlights a grassroots movement from the two thousand
[2:09:29] Speaker 41: and eight presidential campaign to that wellspring of hope that
[2:09:33] Speaker 41: was felt around the.
[2:09:34] Speaker 5: World on election night.
[2:09:37] Speaker 41: We tell the story of the Obama administration's work across
[2:09:41] Speaker 41: two terms, both domestic and foreign policy. President Obama wanted
[2:09:46] Speaker 41: us to think about the work that remained, which is
[2:09:49] Speaker 41: to say that democracy is always a work in progress.
[2:09:52] Speaker 5: And progress is never linear.
[2:09:54] Speaker 41: There is the push and the pull, It zigs and
[2:09:56] Speaker 41: its zags, but that work is part of that We
[2:10:00] Speaker 41: all do. We all social actors in the making of
[2:10:03] Speaker 41: this history.
[2:10:05] Speaker 28: I am part of a family owned business. I'm third
[2:10:08] Speaker 28: generation of the Powers family to be a part of
[2:10:11] Speaker 28: our construction company. And what that means when you work
[2:10:15] Speaker 28: for a family owned business is often your work stories
[2:10:19] Speaker 28: become intertwined with your family stories, the stories you tell
[2:10:24] Speaker 28: when you're sitting around the dining room table or out
[2:10:27] Speaker 28: in the backyard, you know, on Father's Day. So my
[2:10:32] Speaker 28: journey here today started with my grandfather. When he returned
[2:10:36] Speaker 28: from World War Two, he came north to Chicago area
[2:10:40] Speaker 28: as part of the Great Migration. He came here searching
[2:10:45] Speaker 28: for more opportunities for what he believed to be a
[2:10:49] Speaker 28: better future. And as I sit here today and walk
[2:10:53] Speaker 28: across the campus, I can't imagine how proud he must
[2:10:57] Speaker 28: be of us, looking down on us from heaven for
[2:11:01] Speaker 28: what we've accomplished. And I'm sure he never in a
[2:11:05] Speaker 28: million billion years would have ever expected his family to
[2:11:09] Speaker 28: be a part of such an amazing project.
[2:11:13] Speaker 5: My father is a dreamer.
[2:11:16] Speaker 28: He has big dreams, And when President Obama was still
[2:11:20] Speaker 28: in the White House, my father started believing in the
[2:11:24] Speaker 28: possibility that President Obama may choose Chicago to be the
[2:11:27] Speaker 28: location where he would build his library. And he thought,
[2:11:31] Speaker 28: if that would happen, that folks who looked like me
[2:11:35] Speaker 28: should have an opportunity to have a seat at the table,
[2:11:40] Speaker 28: and the black contracting community should have the opportunity to
[2:11:43] Speaker 28: have a significant role in the construction of the project,
[2:11:46] Speaker 28: and he set about and started talking to his colleagues
[2:11:50] Speaker 28: and those who knew in the industry to find others
[2:11:52] Speaker 28: who shared in that dream and that belief, and ultimately
[2:11:56] Speaker 28: we created Lakeside Alliance, which is a five entity joint venture,
[2:12:00] Speaker 28: a minority led joint venture that was chosen to be
[2:12:04] Speaker 28: the construction manager for the Obama Presidential Center.
[2:12:09] Speaker 9: Thank you.
[2:12:14] Speaker 28: So I sat in McCormick Place and I listened to
[2:12:16] Speaker 28: President Obama give his final speech, and the words that
[2:12:21] Speaker 28: resonated with me then I still even got it on
[2:12:25] Speaker 28: a little stick around my laptop was when he asked
[2:12:29] Speaker 28: us not to believe in his ability to bring about change,
[2:12:31] Speaker 28: but to believe in our own And that really has
[2:12:35] Speaker 28: been our guiding light, our driving force from the moment
[2:12:41] Speaker 28: that we were selected for this role. We had to
[2:12:43] Speaker 28: believe in our ability to bring about the change that
[2:12:46] Speaker 28: we felt was needed in our industry, in Chicago and
[2:12:50] Speaker 28: in our communities, and to decide how we were going
[2:12:54] Speaker 28: to use this awesome opportunity to make a change and
[2:12:57] Speaker 28: make a difference for others. So we set about creating
[2:13:02] Speaker 28: a different approach to contracting opportunities that offered opportunities for
[2:13:06] Speaker 28: businesses that typically never would have the option to work
[2:13:10] Speaker 28: on a project such as this. Businesses of all shapes
[2:13:13] Speaker 28: and sizes throughout the city, throughout the state, throughout the country,
[2:13:17] Speaker 28: and the world had the opportunity to participate here and also,
[2:13:21] Speaker 28: most importantly, job opportunities. To make sure that the workforce
[2:13:25] Speaker 28: that built this center was reflective of where we built it.
[2:13:29] Speaker 28: So it is built with the community, with workers who
[2:13:32] Speaker 28: live in the local area on the South and West
[2:13:35] Speaker 28: side of Chicago and throughout the city of Chicago. And
[2:13:38] Speaker 28: that was really important to us that this place is
[2:13:41] Speaker 28: being built with and by those who call Chicago home.
[2:13:47] Speaker 42: I like to think of the Obama Presidential Center there's
[2:13:49] Speaker 42: a tribute to what happens when ordinary people come together
[2:13:53] Speaker 42: to do extraordinary things. Here on Chicago South Side, the
[2:13:57] Speaker 42: Obama Presidential Center offers the chance to explore a world
[2:14:01] Speaker 42: class museum and gather together for celebrations of all kinds.
[2:14:06] Speaker 42: It adds to the vitality of Jackson Park, adding new gardens,
[2:14:11] Speaker 42: a larger playground, and scenic paths for an early morning
[2:14:15] Speaker 42: jog or an afternoon stroll at the Obama Presidential Center.
[2:14:19] Speaker 42: Museum exhibits explore the fullness of the American story, from
[2:14:24] Speaker 42: the promise of our founding documents to the movements.
[2:14:27] Speaker 2: That challenged us to live up to them. You'll be
[2:14:29] Speaker 2: able to walk through a full scale replica of the.
[2:14:32] Speaker 42: Oval Office, relive the moments to define my presidency, experience
[2:14:36] Speaker 42: the impact of our history making first Lady, and check
[2:14:40] Speaker 42: out a few of redresses too. And atop the museum
[2:14:42] Speaker 42: you'll be able to take in some stunning panoramic views
[2:14:46] Speaker 42: of the city we love.
[2:14:47] Speaker 7: We designed the Forum.
[2:14:48] Speaker 42: Building with a focus on the creativity and imagination that's
[2:14:52] Speaker 42: always defined this city. Here programs and leadership trainings support
[2:14:57] Speaker 42: and connect the next generation of change makers here in
[2:15:00] Speaker 42: Chicago to.
[2:15:01] Speaker 15: Those from all around the world.
[2:15:04] Speaker 42: Public libraries are essential institutions, and that's why the Obama
[2:15:08] Speaker 42: Presidential Center offers a new branch of the Chicago.
[2:15:12] Speaker 7: Public Library and on the roof a garden.
[2:15:16] Speaker 42: At the center of it all, a public plaza welcome
[2:15:18] Speaker 42: visitors for live performances and community festivals, a huge green
[2:15:23] Speaker 42: lawn to throw a frisbee or spread out of blanket,
[2:15:25] Speaker 42: and once it turns.
[2:15:26] Speaker 7: Cold, we'll open up the best sledding hill in the neighborhood.
[2:15:30] Speaker 42: At Home Court visitors not only come together.
[2:15:32] Speaker 7: To get active, but to take action.
[2:15:35] Speaker 42: That's the Obama Presidential Center. It couldn't be more important
[2:15:38] Speaker 42: to us that it's happening right here on the South Side.
[2:15:42] Speaker 7: This is the place.
[2:15:43] Speaker 42: Michelle was born and raised. It's where I got a
[2:15:45] Speaker 42: start as a community organizer. It's where we bought our
[2:15:48] Speaker 42: first house, built our family, and took the first steps
[2:15:52] Speaker 42: on a journey that's still taking shape today.
[2:15:55] Speaker 2: It's the place we found our purpose.
[2:15:58] Speaker 7: Now we hope to give something back.
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