#RolandMartinUnfiltered - Diddy Trial Closing, SCOTUS Defunds Planned Parenthood, Crockett/Simon Roast GOP, Voter Fraud, Iran
Episode Date: June 27, 20256.26.2025 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: Diddy Trial Closing, SCOTUS Defunds Planned Parenthood, Crockett/Simon Roast GOP, Voter Fraud, Iran Explosive closing arguments in the Diddy trial... Prosecutors acc...use Sean Combs of leading a criminal enterprise. We'll get the latest from legal analyst Candace Kelley. The Supreme Court opens the door for states to defund Planned Parenthood, putting essential health care for millions of women at risk. Fireworks on Capitol Hill during two hearings. Congresswomen Jasmine Crockett and Lateefah Simon go off on one MAGA Republican about visas, travel bans, and DEI. You don't want to miss that! We will also examine the findings of an expert in election forensics who claims there is statistical evidence of vote manipulation in the 2024 U.S. election. Iran has stated it will not back down on its nuclear program, despite U.S. and Israeli airstrikes. Congresswoman Alma Adams will join us to discuss the implications for U.S. foreign policy and the impact on our troops. #BlackStarNetwork partner: Fanbasehttps://www.startengine.com/offering/fanbase This Reg A+ offering is made available through StartEngine Primary, LLC, member FINRA/SIPC. This investment is speculative, illiquid, and involves a high degree of risk, including the possible loss of your entire investment. You should read the Offering Circular (https://bit.ly/3VDPKjD) and Risks (https://bit.ly/3ZQzHl0) related to this offering before investing. 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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All right, folks, explosive testimony, closing arguments in the Sean Diddy Combs trial. Let's go right to legal analyst Candace
Kelly to break down what happened in the
courtroom, Candace. Well, Roland,
listen each side, the prosecution and defense.
They give four hours for their closing
argument after the prosecution went a
little over four hours, but I don't think
that the defense minded I'm sure they
did not want to go today because this is a long day for jurors and you want argument after the prosecution went a little over four hours, but I don't think that the defense minded,
I'm sure they did not want to go today,
because this is a long day for jurors,
and you want to make sure that they are fresh.
So the defense will give their closing argument tomorrow.
But what we heard today were the prosecutors
taking us step by step through each of the charges,
each of the victims, and how they,
and how the evidence matched up with each one
according to them one according to
them and according to their witness. This is certainly what they hope the jury will believe.
I think that one of the things that we have to keep in mind is that July 4th is coming,
the jury is getting a little bit tired. These are very long, long closing arguments, but this is the
time where prosecution and the defense get to make what they want stick,
connect all of those dots.
And this is really their last chance to do so.
So we heard a lot about what we heard in the trial already, but we heard it all at one time.
This has been six weeks.
This is something that I'm sure a lot of information and details the jury has forgotten about.
And that is what the prosecution kept in mind as they spoke today to remind them of the things
that they may have forgotten.
I would imagine that this will probably go
into deliberations on Monday,
but tomorrow is when we will hear from the defense
and their closing arguments.
And these arguments today,
of course, they pretty much reiterated
what we've heard over the last six weeks,
but also explain to people about these charges being dropped and why that was done.
Yeah, so you know what's interesting is that when you get these charges, you get them on a charge
sheet in terms of the jury. They know exactly what the charges are going to be and the prosecution
and the defense have the opportunity to lay out how they want those charges presented.
Wording really, really matters.
So there are many, many charges
because not only do we have sex trafficking, right?
You have to go sex trafficking for this victim,
this victim and the next victim.
So it multiplies by three and four,
depending upon how many victims.
What the prosecution said was that
when it comes to attempted kidnapping, and when it comes to attempted arson, we are going to get rid of that particular theory.
But we are going to keep arson and kidnapping on these particular jury
deliberation sheets and charge sheets. So really we're just kind of fine tuning
and streamlining their theory because really if you think that somebody committed arson,
well, then you probably think that they attempted
to committed arson.
It kind of merges together.
And what happens is that during jury instructions,
for example, those also take many, many hours.
And I think that the more charges they remove, again,
the less the jury has to sit.
Listen, it's 104 degrees a couple of days this week.
The less the jury has to sit
and come to this trial. And I think that that's very helpful when we're talking about the
jury, the time, July 4th coming up, but really kidnapping and arson are staying. It's just
attempted kidnapping and attempted arson kind of merge with those particular offenses. And
so they remove them.
And again, people who have not sat on a jury
who that follows a trial,
you say they have to walk through each
charge and you say that's about 45 minutes each.
Yeah, so that each charge what will
happen after the closing arguments are done.
We're going to hear from the judge and
the judge is going to give jury instructions.
And here's where he goes through all of the laws,
all of everything that Sean Combs is accused of,
from arson to kidnapping to bribery to extortion
to the drug offenses.
And he's going to explain what they have to look for
in each of these offenses,
what the law says about each of these offenses,
what they can consider,
what they can't consider, things of that nature.
So it's very detailed.
That will take hours.
So when you remove some of those charges,
it's very, very helpful in terms of some of the time.
But that is the next step.
And then of course, when they go to the deliberation room,
the next step that the jurors have to do
is select a four person.
That four person manages what's going on, make sure that everybody gets their voices heard. You know, if they
want to see any evidence, they send a note to the judge. The four person is the person
that sends the note to that judge and they can ask for evidence. They can go back and
forth if they have, if they have questions. As long as it's been entered into evidence,
they can ask, Hey, listen, we have questions about this evidence, or even questioned about the law. Many times, juries go in and they say, hey, listen,
what if we're a hung jury? So any information that they want, those are the next steps that
we are looking at with the jury. The DINI defense, he did not testify, they did not call any witnesses
again. For folks who don't really understand these things. Explain what their strategy was by them not calling any witnesses.
Was it simply a matter of saying, Hey,
they don't think the prosecution approved their case?
Yeah. And that's key to it because the prosecution is the one who has to do the
work here. They have to prove the case. Sean and his people,
they can sit back and say, Hey, listen, you didn't prove it.
And that's actually the theory that we're going to use.
You didn't prove it.
Now, a lot of people will say, well, listen,
they didn't call it any witnesses.
Why?
Isn't there even a character witness?
The truth kind of is, Roland, that they have called witnesses
and that on cross-examination, that at least to get to kind
of poke holes maybe in a witness' story
and bring out some bias or bring about
some inconsistent statements.
On their list of witnesses that they said they were going to have, they had a couple
of people who were from bad boy enterprises.
They had their own forensic psychologist.
But when you get somebody on the stand, you never know what's going to happen.
Then you open the door for a lot more evidence to come in that may actually hurt the
defendant. So they have said, which is why they called for an acquittal, which is really procedural,
but I'm sure that they meant it that, hey, listen, you didn't prove your case. They asked for an
acquittal. They did not get that, but that is their theory. You didn't prove your case and you were
supposed to, and you didn't do a good job. I personally would have loved to have heard from someone who was a part of the bad boy enterprise
to say, hey, this theory that the government has
that this enterprise existed only for purposes
of criminal racketeering and fraud and force and coercion.
No, it didn't.
We're bad boy records.
We also were involved in Rebolt TV.
He had a liquor brand, he had a marketing brand,
he had Sean John.
It would have been good, I think, but brand, he had a marketing brand, he had Sean John.
It would have been good, I think,
but again, opening a door that they weren't aware of
could happen, but it would have established that,
hey, this particular criminal enterprise
that you're calling, no, it was a real business,
but we did not hear from those witnesses.
And of course we didn't hear from Sean Combs,
who spoke on his own behalf and said,
I am not going to testify on my own behalf.
I've talked to my attorneys.
It was a decision that I made on my own.
And that's when the defense rested.
And lastly, you also have a situation
where I think the defense is like, OK, we're going to concede
he's an asshole.
He's an awful human being.
But there's a difference between being an awful human being
who physically beat a woman, who physically beat Cassie.
That's different from Rico, sex trafficking.
And so everything, how they position this,
hey, they just had a bunch of freaky sex.
That's how they pretty much framed this. Yeah, they had a bunch of freaky sex. That's how they pretty much framed this.
Yeah, they had a bunch of freaky sex.
They had a bunch of freaky partners
and everybody was consenting.
And that Cassie in their opening statements,
they said, listen, these women were strong women.
And that's what they're going to carry over
into their closing argument.
These were strong women.
They had the right to make decisions about who
they were, their body. And in fact, a lot of them took drugs and were on drugs. These are some of
the points that the defense is going to make that everybody was on drugs. Everybody consented.
Everybody made these decisions on their own volition. They will also look to the digital
footprint, all the texts and admiration, because all the witnesses, regardless of what they said,
they all buy in lot, well, most of them,
in terms of those being in a relationship with them,
they said, listen, I wish them well, I don't hate them.
His assistants, even they said, listen, great experience.
I learned a lot, I didn't mind working all these hours.
But yes, that is what the defense is going to say.
On their own volition, these women made their their choices and what are you going to do?
People want to do drugs. They want to have sex. That's their own right.
And that's what happened in this situation.
All right then. Candace Kelly, we appreciate it. Thanks a lot.
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That crazy Carrie Lake and it was it's just on and on and on and how they don't even want to deal with
Corruption don't want to answer questions when it comes to the budget. I mean, you've got Sean, you've got Doug Collins with the VA.
I mean, it's just sheer stupidity.
Here's a perfect example of their arrogance.
So here's Pam Bondi talking to a United States Senator from Oregon.
And she said, you know what the hell, I'm just going to be a piss ant in answering
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Listen to this.
I'm just going to be a pissant in answering his questions. Listen to this.
A request by UAE to produce AI chips that would go to UAE.
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and then the president goes to the Middle East
and says we will provide those chips.
Does that sequence of events concern you
about foreign influence on the United States of America?
The foreign influence on America
that I would be concerned about if I were you
was the Mexican, the Mexican national
that resided in Oregon who we just arrested
who had 384 pounds of methamphetamine. senator from the country of origin and the Mexican national that resided in oregon who we
just arrested who had 384 pounds
of methamphetamine. The foreign
individual who I would be
concerned about if I were a
senator from oregon is the
honduran drug trafficker who was
residing in portland for
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foreign national I would be
concerned about if I was a
portland senator and oregon, as a Mexican national leader of
a drug trafficking ring.
Another one, fentanyl, firearms, fatal overdoses, all in your state.
You have made your point.
57,700 fentanyl pills and stolen firearms in Oregon.
That's what we should work together on, not gotcha questions during
a budget hearing on public safety.
Thank you very much Mr. Chairman. The Attorney General certainly has made the point that
she's very concerned about issues that I'm concerned about as well regarding the security
of this country. But let the record note that in terms of foreign influence and the sale
of foreign influence through the President's coins. She absolutely refuses to respond and instead turns to a whole list of different topics.
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be very concerned about foreign influence.
And I encourage you to take on that topic and not consider it an offense that those
of us who are concerned here, Democrats and Republicans, want Americans to make American
decisions, not foreign influence being bought
through crypto coins.
Senator Murkowski, Chairman.
You see right there the arrogance.
You see just the despicable behavior in terms of how they answer questions, how they want
to go on the attack.
You see, what you gotta remember is,
there's an audience of one.
Donald Trump sends these idiots to Capitol Hill,
and he wants to see them trashing and chastising
and things along those lines.
That's what you see happening.
Then, of course, you have the hearing of Kerry Lake,
of course, who leads, uh, VOA.
And so, and she, and they just sit here and again, they just lie and lie and lie
and say crazy things.
And so here's an Arizona congressman ripping Carrie Lake.
Watch this.
Cannot believe a word you say.
You ran for governor in Arizona in 2022, you lost fair and square.
Instead of conceding, you embarrassed your stealth
and our state by lying again and again for years,
blaming everything under the sun for your loss,
except for your own toxic politics.
You lie about that election to this very day.
You lied about signatures on mail-in ballots
not matching those on file, proven wrong.
You lied about ballots being intentionally misprinted
and then rejected in Republican areas, total BS.
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were mishandled. Zero evidence.
You claimed fake ballots were snuck into batches before they were counted.
Come on.
You repeated these lies again and again, and you've said even recently, quote, I am the
duly elected governor, they just stole it, unquote.
Give me a break.
Ms. Lake, your new role requires you to tell the truth.
For decades, whenever authoritarians and dictators
suppressed the people and claimed victory
in fraudulent elections,
Voice of America countered those lies.
I can't imagine how people fighting for democracy today
and around the world can trust someone
who has so shamelessly lied about her own election.
Will the gentleman yield to the question?
No I will not.
Miss Lake?
That's what you do.
You call them for who they are.
You lay out and you check them.
But see again, they are deranged and crazy they have said some she in fact
even challenged one particular member by saying well what you know what were you
saying when they were calling you gay see they want to fight now that check
this out so Senator John Ossoff was talking to Russell Vaught and they were
going over the budget they were going over the
budget. They were talking about the budget and things along those lines. And when you
talk about, again, how they don't want to answer questions, how they want to shift the blame,
and so here is Russell Vaught. Watch this here. The CDC. Have you visited the CDC Mr. Voigt by chance? I have not. It is the the flagship
epidemiological and public health agency for the country and indeed for the world.
That even the Biden administration felt in need. And you have now, you have now fired or tried to
fire nearly a quarter of the workforce, correct? Senator, are you suggesting the CDC performed well in the last pandemic?
I asked you whether you have fired or tried to fire a quarter of the CDC workforce.
I can't answer the question because I don't have the facts in front of me.
You have fired or tried to fire nearly a quarter of the CDC workforce, and your budget request
for FY26 would cut the CDC budget in more than half, correct?
The Center for Disease Control was in...
Answer the question.
They were incompetent...
Answer the question, Mr. Vought.
Does your budget request seek to cut by more than half the CDC budget?
We certainly seek to cut and reduce the CDC.
By more than half the CDC budget.
Listen, Mr. Vought, you need to come to Georgia and visit the CDC.
Happy to. Good. more than half the CDC budget. Listen, Mr. Vought, you need to come to Georgia and visit the CDC.
Good, we'll make that happen
because you are destroying this institution.
And whatever criticism you have about their past performance,
they are essential to public health
and epidemiological defense in the United States.
You're crushing morale, you're crushing capability,
and you're destroying my constituents' lives.
And I am grateful for the commitment you've made to come to Georgia and visit the CDC
and sit down with those employees.
Thank you, Madam Chair.
I don't want to hear about the Biden administration.
You're here on behalf of the Trump administration.
All right, so I'm going to play one more that I saw and it shows you the sheer
incompetence of these people. It shows you how they don't give a damn about Congress
and Republicans don't care about actually hearing from them, but their entire goal is
again to just say, you know what, I don't give a damn what any of y'all have to say.
This is Senator John Ossoff again.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
And thank you again, Mr. Secretary.
So just to start with the basics here, Mr. Secretary, the total all-in request
for FY26 is $441.2 billion, correct?
Yes.
Okay.
And how much of your medical services request is for personnel?
And how many personnel through this medical services request do you intend to employ in FY26?
At the current, and I also have, if you, I have my budget, Andrew, here as well, if there's the numbers that we need, if, Ms. Chairman, with yours, the issue that you brought up is right now there are currently 465,000 employees in VA as a whole, VHA has 409,000 of those.
The I'm so sorry Mr the question is how many staff do you intend to employ
employ through the medical services budget in FY26?
Do we have Andrew? 396,000 396,000. 396,000 396,000 396,000 yes
Okay, the FY 25 request and
Just to be clear that's
intended staffing of medical services and FY 26 save a number again 395
396,000 396,000 okay, how many physicians do you intend to employ in FY 26? Physicians. Oh, physicians. We employ a large number of physicians. I'm sorry, who are you? Andrew is our budget. Right now we currently have 28,868 physicians.
Yeah, so how many physicians do you intend to employ in FY26?
We're not cutting physicians, so at this point in time under that budget we're still looking
to continue 28,868 at minimum, because we're also having to add staff, add physicians which
are exempt.
So we're adding those.
So here's what we usually...
This is, for example, the budget request from 25, and it specifies that for 25 were requested
25,099 physicians.
So we usually get this in advance of this hearing.
My question is just how many doctors you intend to employ.
Yeah, and at this point in time, I'll take that and get it back to you.
As I told you yesterday on the phone, there'll be some more information coming later this
week.
Okay. How about dentists the same answer?
Do you have the number for nurses we currently employ
91040 I'll have the my question is how many and I understand and breakdown will be provided as I said yesterday
Okay, well how have you you calculated the money you need for
personnel without having yet decided how many personnel to employ? In the
breakdown of the budget, which right now is still going on, these are the numbers
that we are using to go forward from last year's budget into this year's
budget. And at this point, there is also a gap in how many we have currently hired and
not hired. And so at this point, I'll have the numbers for you that we've not provided
yet. We'll be providing those numbers. But you've proposed a about 17 or $18 billion
cut to the medical services account, correct? That is not the president's budget makes adjustments
to the funding that provide additional funding to
the federal medical care
services account, correct?
That is not the president's
budget makes adjustments to
the funding that devote
additional funding to community
care.
This is not a cut to funding
to VHA.
In fact, the total medical care
budget grew by 17 percent to
24 billion.
Not medical care, medical
services.
So here's your...
And just to be clear, the
chairman mentioned this, we
usually get... I understand completely....spe specifies how many folks you intend to employ.
We have a 26-page PowerPoint.
But in that 26-page PowerPoint, here are specified about $17 billion in cuts to the medical services
budget.
So, who, what are you cutting in medical services?
Specifically, who are you cutting, since that's exclusively personnel? The again in this and this is the issue we have right now and I'll just state this for
either to go back in circles you'll be getting will be providing more of those numbers as
I said yesterday on our phone call this week.
So at this point in time the numbers that we're providing are the numbers that we have
at this point.
I'll be happy to talk to you further about those later. I'm just I'm and understand that that's why we
usually get these in advance of this hearing. I mean I'm wondering if we need
to reconvene having received the full budget request because the thing that is
causing a lot of consternation is this proposed 1717, $18 billion cut to medical services.
I mean that, and so today is the budget hearing
where you justify the budget request.
So how do you justify this cut to medical services
and who are you going to fire in order to pay for it?
And I'll go back to the same answer I gave you
just a few minutes ago.
I mean, in this process we'll have the more information on that part of it as we go forward.
The basis of the budget was based on the, you know, our workforce as it existed and
moving forward and the numbers have not been cut to the medical.
I'm sorry.
Yes, it has.
You have in your PowerPoint here, $17 to $18 billion in cuts to medical services.
Again, this is the, this is a 26 page PowerPoint
to justify the budget. And this is the budget hearing. So who's getting fired? I don't
know Mr. Chairman if we need to reconvene after they send us the materials, but I think
this is insufficient.
Clearly, and I'll follow up in my next round.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Yo, that's literally going to class,
and the professor said,
did you do the homework assignment?
You know, professor, I sent you an email,
and some stuff happened,
and so I'm gonna get that to you late.
No, no, but did you know it was due today?
These people, they have a gross disrespect
for the legislative branch.
Donald Trump and his minions,
they believe they should do whatever they want.
Congress does not matter.
The courts do not matter.
We do not care.
And let's go on the attack.
Let's slam the opponent.
And I dare say the problem for Democrats,
and I get it, I get murky, I understand Ossoff,
I get that, I think they being way too damn nice.
Because I'm not gonna let somebody walk into my house
and disrespect me, and you think I'm not gonna return fire.
That to me is the fundamental problem I see.
They are playing nice with these people,
and they're letting them off the hook,
and they look like idiots,
and then they wanna say everybody else is incompetent,
and how these are the best and the brightest and it's about Meriden
We don't like DEI when these people can't even do a basic job
My pound dr. Nola Haynes Georgetown University
School of Foreign Service out of DC that the grade card Department of Afro-American studies
How a university out of DC Reese Colbert host of Reese Sirius XM radio, also creator of the card game.
That's right, am I trippin'?
And Resee, am I trippin'?
Do these people, I mean, it's like,
yeah, we ain't got that.
Hey, do you have that?
I mean, yeah, no, I know we said cut,
but we ain't really got the paperwork.
So I mean, I don't know what to tell you dog and crazy thing rici
Collin served eight years in Congress. He know damn well how this works
Yeah, it's a whole lot of humming a humming a humming a humming a humming a humming a and look over there
Look over there. Don't look right here
You're there because you're supposed to be talking about the details, the specifics of
the budget that's being put forth.
Look, a lot of talk is about the big, beautiful bill, which is a hot mess, but the reality
is that the Trump 2026 budget is horrific.
It is finishing the work that Trump has done by taking action for Project 2025.
He is putting into law just absolutely ridiculous cuts
that are going to dismantle government services
and dismantle the social safety net.
And so they should come up, stand on business,
and stand behind these cuts.
But they're banking on the fact that they can,
they can just rely on these headlines being grabbed
from whatever dumbass thing Donald Trump is
saying or whatever they're trying to deflect, instead of being held accountable to what
this budget is trying to do.
NOLA, here's a perfect example.
This is that nutcase Carrie Lake reference.
And this is the kind of crap that she said in her hearing.
And I'm sorry, Homie was way too nice with her trifling ass.
I wish I could yield back the last five minutes
of my life, actually.
And I want to apologize to the people of Arizona
that we have somebody who's representing the folks
in one of our great parts of the Valley
that doesn't care about the integrity of our election.
So, but you weren't here, you came in late,
and we were talking about USAGM today, the Agency for Global
Media, and how they can put out absolute, abject lies.
And we can't control any.
We have no say over what the editorial content is.
And I would hope that you would not be OK with that.
They could literally put out a lie about anybody here.
And I know you've been the victim of that.
I know you've been the victim. I remember the stories about you where they said you
had a gay lover and those were going on all over.
Mr. Chairman.
Chairman.
Can I finish the story?
I hope you honor what you just gave as a caution to everyone and I moved those words.
To tell you that that those kind of, and you said those were lies,
those kind of lies could be broadcast today on VOA
and you couldn't pick up the phone, Representative Stanton,
and call them and say,
hey, you're putting out lies about me.
You would not be able to do that
because they would sue you for breaking the firewall.
So lies are being told on Voice of America.
It's inappropriate.
You've been subjected to lies that you said were lies
about you in the media before.
And how would you like it if those lies
were put on Voice of America?
And Nola, they let her ass keep talking.
You know what is hysterical about this?
I don't know if folks out there have ever seen
the British TV show called the thick of it
It is the the show that inspired deep this
Hold on no, no, why are you holding that microphone?
Because I'm on my phone. There was some technical issues and no no no no no that microphone clips on. Just clip it on. I wanna hold it, cause I like my nails.
Can I do me?
And Nola, Nola, Nola, take the furry thing off.
That's a windscreen.
It ain't windy inside.
I like the aesthetic.
No, it's not an aesthetic.
No, matter of fact, let me go ahead and say this.
I'm gonna let you finish.
I keep watching these damn people to rate
I keep watching these folk do videos and they really getting on my nerves. That is a windscreen
It is supposed to reduce the wind noise. That is not a furry accessory
So Lord have like a black a big ass put that put that chip it that clip that thing only you just told
Put that, put that chia pet, clip that thing on the you and just talk. Well can I borrow the windscreen so I can turn my fan up?
Lord, gone. Hey, ooh, that irks me.
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Can I just finish my thought man next thing y' know, y'all gonna have a pink windscreen,
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Thank you.
So back to my point.
If you watch the British show, The Thick of It,
it was about Tony Blair's comms director who was a bully.
And when I say that this is the exact scene,
the exact tactic of throwing everybody off
by first insulting the person saying,
oh, you were late, by throwing that person off.
And then by saying that something happened to you
negative in the media to deflect
from what the actual situation about them is.
I kid you not, if y'all as politicals
have not watched The Thick of It,
you have got to watch that show.
This is an exact scene frame by frame by frame,
which makes this even more hysterical.
But it's effective.
They have dug in, they are standing 10 toes down
on just being bullish, on being rude.
They don't care.
They don't care that this is how they're being seen
because they've been told this is what strength looks like.
And like everyone has said,
the Dems need to figure out very soon how to combat this
because you're sitting there looking crazy,
still trying to be statesman-like, stateswoman-like,
when people are coming for you, you know,
because to me what she said was homophobic,
and it was done on purpose,
because that's red meat for the base, right?
That was to own the lib.
They need to figure this out very quickly,
because they sitting here,
they sitting around here looking crazy and weak.
Yeah, because for Donald Trump, he wants central casting.
He wants people who look a certain way, Greg,
talk a certain way. Greg, talk a certain
way.
And what Democrats don't seem to understand is that these congressional hearings, folk
can say performative, performing for the cameras.
Yeah.
Yeah.
The reality is you should be using your five minutes to eviscerate your foes, to destroy them,
to make them look like sheer idiots.
And when they bring the shade,
you hit they ass with a double and a triple dose of shade.
But no, they wanna sit here and let these fools ramble
and go on and on and on. That why it was cause when Maxine waters and not everybody doing reclaiming my time
You got to shut these thugs down and not give an inch Greg
Absolutely
You do you do?
to the white passing Carrie Lake and all the others who are working to the
whole format is their Lord and Master it may look like there's individual flair
and each of these performances and appearances but the architect of much of
this was on the hill earlier this week and last week Russell Vogt. It's Russell
Vogt's playbook. It's exactly what Richard said.
When you go to the Mandate for Leadership, Project 2025,
you read Vogt's chapter on the concept
of the executive branch and this kind of powerful,
all-encompassing executive branch.
Then what you saw today was the equivalent
of Richard Pryor saying back in the 70s,
or Chris Rock in the 1990s,
I don't know that ass, keeping it real.
In other words, I'm from the executive branch.
I ain't gotta tell you ass, Richard Pryor said,
hey man, show me, I ain't gotta show you.
That's really what Collins was telling his former colleague.
That's what we've seen with Kerry Lake.
This is what we've seen with everybody
who's testified, contempt.
So anyone expecting anything different?
I mean, look at that stooge, Bill Cassidy in Louisiana,
who's right in bed with him.
You're a medical doctor, and Robert F. Kennedy came up there and
to your face and straight told a lie to you.
And now you up here, having to reconsider.
No, you're not.
It's all theater, as you said, Roland.
The tragedy is we watch theater so much
that we think it's real.
But them phone calls that have already been made,
they're not gonna stop her.
Yeah, it just sort of drives me crazy when they do that.
And I came across, see,
this is also why I could never serve in office.
Because I mean, I be getting censured.
They'll be like, you shouldn should be cussing you know I
listen I listen I spoke to the I spoke to a fellowship today.
And I look at the key. The scene says we like rolling stop
cussing I'm like I'm trying not to cause but these folks just
make me cuss but I can't but I don't come close to cussing
just make me cuss, but I can't, but I ain't gonna come close to cussing Reese.
But here's a perfect example. I saw this exchange, and maybe it's because she from the Bay Area,
but Congresswoman Latifah Simon, when I say hashtag team whip that ass, rolled into Capitol Hill
like a hurricane, and Nola could use her windscreen for that,
like a hurricane. Yo, it was lit rolling.
This is a very, very difficult conversation.
I'm a great granddaughter.
If you had to have heart surgery again, would you rather have a doctor who studied the hardest in school and was the most qualified
to perform the surgery or a doctor that was in that position because of their race or
gender?
Which one would you rather have?
Dr. Langton.
I'd prefer a well-qualified physician.
Dr. Smith.
At the risk of not keeping it real, I want the best physician.
Dr. Locke.
The best physician. And Dr Glock. The best physician.
And Dr. Harper.
Are only the best physicians white?
I don't care what their color is.
That wasn't a question.
Okay, do you guys agree with Dr.
yes or no, do you agree with Dr. Martin Luther King's
statement that people should be judged by the content
of the character, not the color of their skin?
Mr. Langton.
Absolutely. Dr. Smith. Yep. And Dr. Gluck. Absolutely. And Dr. Harper. Martin
Luther King would absolutely be repulsed, repulsed by the politicized attacks on
diversity, equity, inclusion. So you're not gonna say yes or no. You gotta say yes or no.
No, I'm, no. listen, I'm telling you right now
that hiring and promotion based, are you advocating
hiring and promotion based on character?
It would also be repulsed by the value.
The answer is yes or no.
Are we hiring people based on skills and experiences or are we hiring them based on character?
It should be quality and not race and sex.
Ada Clarie doesn't want to answer the question.
Why don't you go on?
He was asking for clarification.
I think that's fair.
This is a very, very difficult conversation.
I'm a great granddaughter of someone who had a literal yoke on her neck.
A literal yoke.
And I will give the four and a half minutes of my time to my people from Malvern, Arkansas, from those fields. And I want to be clear that four out of the five of you
last year posted on your social media
the words of Dr. King, and there are so few folks
who actually have studied, who are clear
on the theology of freedom of King.
Very few of you have read and studied
and have sat in Ebenezer Baptist Church,
so I would ask you,
you keep Dr. King's name out of your mouth.
If you, like me and the many scholars
who will be watching studied King,
you know that he and the mothers and the fathers
of the civil rights movement
and of the movement for emancipation
not only would be struck by the conversations in this room but would be shattered by the
consequence of lives of hatred of abuse of this administration in the name of folks who
worked to make this country more free children of Abraham for real I want to be clear for the young people that are listening today here in this audience, this conversation is not about an acronym.
It's just not.
It's just not.
This is a conversation.
It's an attack.
It's an attack on what you see right here.
Now, see, who's on this side of the dais?
This was never the plan.
It was never the plan.
It was never the plan. It's an attack on what you see right here. Now see, who's on this side of the dais?
This was never the plan.
It was never the plan to have people of color
in positions where they would be able
to speak from this place.
In fact, folks had to fight tooth or nail
to gain access to the front door to this Capitol.
I wanna be very clear about that.
Today's hearing says quietly and actually out loud
who the majority believe is allowed to belong
in this country.
They use Dr. King's name in deep vein
who has a place in the hierarchy
that was never meant to be questioned.
The majority is leading a coordinated effort.
I wanna be clear, to push us back to a segregated America
based on race, based on ethnicity,
based on national origin, based on sex,
based on sexual orientation and gender identity
and disability. Inclusion, as a disabled woman, based on national origin, based on sex, based on sexual orientation and gender identity
and disability.
Inclusion, as a disabled woman,
they have been very, very clear,
including folks who look different
than the standardized white man in this country,
folks who are disabled, folks who love differently.
Those folks should not be at the center of power.
That's the plan.
They are motivated by a fear,
a fear of a multiracial and a multicultural
democracy. A fear, a fear that freedom of co-equal citizens living as their authentic
selves with pride and a fear, they have a fear of accountability. We must name this conversation today for what it truly is.
It is a bigotry, it is a hypocrisy.
Republicans, like I said before,
will quote Dr. King all day,
will bring forth Lincoln,
and will talk about Frederick Douglass
in the same breath that they are gutting
civil rights offices in our governments.
In the same breath where they seek to ban
AP African-American studies
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It ain't just one story, it is a complete story.
But folks on this dais don't want you to learn it.
The hypocrisy from the Republicans is not only shameful,
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These attacks are central to a broader agenda.
Let me just finish this one sentence that criminalizes protests, that bans books, that
erases history and redefines its national identity in narrow and violent terms.
A 1950s America is what the goal of this conversation is, and some of us say hell no.
I yield.
You ain't in no studio to be cute.
You in church.
I don't in no studio to be cute.
You in church.
I don't want no studio sound.
I want a church sound.
Something on the inside.
Workin' on the outside.
Oh, what a church.
Hey, she took him to church, Greg.
Something on the inside.
Greg, she took him to church.
Workin' on the outside. He is to the church. Hey, she took him to church, Greg! Greg, she took him to church!
Yes, she took him to church.
That's how, come on, bring it down.
That's how you suppose, that's how you do that, Greg.
Well, God bless Latifah Simmons, Congresswoman Simmons.
I wouldn't do that because I don't give a damn
about that hillbilly from central Virginia.
And if I were to see McGuire in person,
I probably would pass him by to a press conference
roasting him.
He's beneath contempt.
So God bless him for that.
I tell you though, man, it presumes that they don't know.
In the case of McGuire, who was a Navy SEAL and
you know and came out all this stuff, he clearly has the intelligence to know
better, unlike somebody like Tommy Tuberville who is brain damaged
apparently. But I think there's the other option. I may or may not know, but more importantly, it isn't germane to my agenda.
I have the power.
And so therefore, you can make the most compelling logic case that you would like.
I'm still going to do what I'm going to do.
There's only one way to stop this, y'all.
We have to be organized and we have to act politically, including in the next cycle of
the ballot box.
What Latifah Simmons did, that's great to show to some young people.
What we're seeing from some of the Democrats, Jimmy Raskin, Jasmine Crockett, we're seeing
civics lessons.
If you want to package that and put it on the platform and teach young people civics,
fine.
But them people there, as Malcolm X would say, you're speaking a language they don't
understand.
But here's the deal, though.
I believe that what she's doing and what Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett does, and again, look, what
we're seeing from the guy who just won the Democratic primary in New York is understanding
the moment and what people are looking for right now.
They are looking for fighters.
They are looking for people who are not going to back down.
And it may be folk who say, I don't even agree with you,
but at least you showing some fight.
At least you're showing something.
And see, and I'm about to walk through this
because I'm gonna show you a couple of things.
I'm gonna show y'all, and everybody's gonna talk about it,
but I need people watching to understand
what we're talking about.
How you present, how you speak,
how you leverage your voice is important
because the folks sitting at home are saying,
if y'all want me to get off the couch,
if y'all want me to go walk door to door, if y'all want me to canvas, if y'all want me to get off the couch, if y'all want me to go walk door to door,
if y'all want me to canvas, if y'all want me to phone bank,
you got to give me something to work with.
And the regular has boring Chuck Schumer,
same old, same old, I ain't swinging for that.
That ain't moving me, that ain't fighting for me.
And the deal was, I think made a huge ass mistake
by not picking Jasmine Crockett as the ranking member
on the House Oversight Committee.
Y'all rolled her this week.
It's interesting that we're being accused of wanting
all kinds of criminals to be on
the streets or that we don't believe that people should show up to their meetings and
appointments.
Last time I checked, there's a lot of people that are actually being grabbed as they are
going in for their appointments.
In fact, we know that one of the candidates that was recently running in this mayoral,
he ended up being arrested because he decided that he was actually going to escort people
that are actually showing up to their meetings.
Or we know that the Pope, yes, the Pope himself decided that the church may need to have people
that are going to escort people as they're going into their meetings.
Because the reality is that what they are claiming what they want to do versus what
they're actually doing, the actions don't match up.
And while we are supposed to be talking about visas, somehow we continue to cherry pick
and talk about one criminal act and another criminal act.
And it is so very interesting to me that, yes,
we will say people are xenophobic
because when you start to decide
that just because somebody came from another country,
they are automatically some kind of criminal,
that does sound kind of xenophobic to me
because you are using
a paintbrush to paint an entire group of people where the vast majority of them are coming
here because they are actually seeking a better life.
But let me get to what this hearing is supposed to be about the idea that Trump and my Republican
colleagues want to restore integrity and security in the visa process is actually a joke.
Let me be clear.
Integrity is not snatching lawful visa holders off the streets and throwing
them into unmarked vans.
Integrity is not revoking visas based on social media posts that hurt somebody's little feelings
because kids decide that they want to go after Trump or this administration.
We have a thing called free speech in this country.
And since we're talking about integrity, I'm confused as to why my Republican colleagues aren't
talking about the lack of integrity
when it comes to the president's family's visas.
Let me remind you all that Melania, the first lady,
a model.
And when I say model, I'm not talking about Tyra Banks, Cindy
Crawford, or Naomi Campbell level applied for and was
given an EB-1 visa.
And what that stands for is an Einstein visa.
Now y'all that don't know, let me tell you how you receive an Einstein visa.
You're supposed to have some sort of significant achievement like being awarded a Nobel Peace
Prize or Pulitzer, being an Olympic medalist or having other sustained extraordinary abilities
and success in sciences,
arts, education, business or athletics.
Last time I checked, the first lady had none of those accolades under her belt.
It doesn't take an Einstein to see that the math ain't math in here.
Nevertheless, what Republicans are doing with this reconciliation process, the travel bans
and revoking visas jeopardizes our national security.
It threatens our communities our higher education and our economy visas like the largely vetted
J visas for higher education and M visas for trade training attract the next innovators
medical providers researchers and educators that we need to build on American success. I'm not going to mess up your name, so I'm not doing that, but I'm with you.
Okay.
In your experience, do individuals on J or M visas typically improve or impair our economy?
They generally improve the economy.
And I can give a brief example.
My wife is a very successful woman. She makes
a ton of money, which I'm grateful for. And the reason why we're able to do that while
having three children is because of the au pair visa, somebody who is here on a J who
is here and able to do that.
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Let's apply this for us, but I also want to defend Melania real quick.
Not everybody can marry Donald Trump,
and I think that's quite an achievement
So I think she deserves credit for that. Nobody up here could have done it. You sure right? I couldn't do it
But anyway, in fact J visa holders contribute 43.8 billion dollars to the US economy and support more than 300,000 jobs
And make no mistake immigrants improve the health of US citizens to despite the fact we already have a doctor shortage
Trump's reckless travel ban and visa overhaul are exacerbating this crisis by impairing hundreds of hospitals with foreign
trained doctors set to do their residencies here in the United States, meaning fewer people
will get the help they need and more people will die.
Now let me remind you that Republicans are trying to gut Medicaid.
Roughly 4.5 million people receive
caregiver services through Medicaid and most of these folks are in red states. And wouldn't you
know that in 2023 Kaiser Family Foundation estimated that almost 30% of long-term care
providers or home caretakers were immigrants. It's like Republicans want Americans to suffer. Now
Republicans say visas make us less secure but let's talk about how you visas,
visas given to victims of crimes like rape, murder,
human trafficking, torture, abduction,
kidnapping to help law enforcement
with their investigation or prosecutions of these crimes.
These folks are risking their own security
for broader safety of Americans and our communities.
Thank you so much.
To Greg's point, you had lots of policy in that.
Take a shot at Melania.
It gets clipped and picked up.
People learn from that.
Now, if y'all wanna see boring ass, traditional,
typical, ain't never gonna get retweeted,
reposted on Instagram, TikTok, nothing.
This bullshit.
We are here with an urgent message.
Republicans right now are attempting to jam through a bill
that would present the largest loss of health care
and food assistance in American history.
And why?
All to pay for tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires.
Now just a few weeks ago,
the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office confirmed
that if their bill becomes law, it will be 16.
Come on, I can't even play the whole 90 seconds
of that boring ass video look like he got two
Hostages standing right next to him
Why did my why did mom that while mom Donnie went in New York? Yeah, I want to know now how why he won
Watch this New York is suffering from a crisis and it's called halal inflation
Today we're gonna get to the bottom of this.
How much does a plate of halal cost right now from this truck?
Ten dollars.
Ten dollars.
Chicken of a rice, lamb of a rice, ten dollars.
Ten dollars?
Yeah.
When you're a street vendor you have to pay for the food, the plates.
How much do you have to pay for your permit?
Before it was 22k.
20... 17 thousand.
How much is a license cost if you get it from the city?
I think 400.
Who are you paying?
The permit owner.
You're not paying the city?
No, no, no.
You pay the permit owner 22 thousand dollars just so you can sell this food?
Yes.
And who is this?
Random guy.
Have you ever applied for a permit?
Yeah, I applied and no come anything.
It's long wait.
I'm number 3800 something.
After two years, you're number 3800?
Yes.
These are the four bills that are sitting in the city council right now, which would
give these vendors their own permits and make your halal more affordable. But Eric Adams hasn't said a single word about
them. If you own the permit, then how much would you charge for the plate?
$7. $8. $8. Would you rather pay $10 for a plate of halal or $8?
$8. $8. I'd pick $8 the way to go. If I was the mayor, I'd be working with City
Council from day one to make halal eight bucks again.
So, how would it taste? Tastes like ten bucks, but it should be eight. If I was the mayor, I'd be working with city council from day one to make halal eight bucks again.
So how would it taste?
Tastes like 10 bucks, but it should be eight.
I see the look on your face, Recy.
That's what we're talking about.
You have to message.
You have to walk people through,
explain to them in a way that they understand,
and it's not standing at a podium saying,
grocery prices have gone up.
The middle class is hurting because of Trump.
My colleagues will come up next to further explain
how the Republican bill is going to hurt all Americans.
Ain't nobody watching that boring ass stuff.
That's true, he had me sold. I was like, wait a minute now, wait a minute.
$8 is definitely better than $10.
But he took a 90 second video, showed you the food,
showed you real people, talked about permits,
talked about who they paying, what the price was,
showed the bills, and you like,
damn, all that's going on?
Yeah, no, that was brilliant.
That was brilliant.
It was personal, it was policy,
it was connecting the dots,
it was showing the implication of government
for people who are so disaffected and disillusioned
and just think it doesn't matter who's in office,
it doesn't matter what government does.
It showed a very tangible, relatable reason why it does matter. So that explains,
like you said, a lot of what his appeal is, because he is connecting the dots for people who
just don't think that it matters. I do want to go back, though, to Congresswoman Latifah Simon,
because she really is sensational. She's not just great in terms of being able to dismantle
that racism and that ridiculous hearing,
but I want to shout out legislation she put forward
because she is legally blind
and she put forward a legislation
to provide mobile vision services for students.
That's the kind of legislation
that doesn't often get touted,
but I think she deserves so much. And then, obviously, we all know that Congresswoman Crockett, she broke it down and made
it plain. The reality is that we need to reach people who don't get that government can work.
They don't get what's not working about government and why. They don't get why the people that they
send to government can't actually help it make work better for them.
And so the more that you have Democrats out there
who actually know how to talk to regular people,
and we're not talking about just the white man diner,
working class diner that Bernie Sanders has been trying
to get for the past however many years
and still lost two presidential primaries
and got fewer votes in Vermont than Kamala Harris, but he trying to bring her up on the negative.
We talking about regular, schmegger-ass people, the people that make the difference between
Democrats winning and Democrats losing.
That's what we need to be focused on, reaching those votes.
And, look, listen, this week, NOLA, the Democrats chose Congressman Robert Garcia to be the
ranking member of the House Oversight Committee. Listen, this week NOLA, the Democrats chose Congresswoman Robert Garcia to be the rank
member of the House Oversight Committee.
Frankly, leadership did not want Crockett.
They took a vote there.
That told the members how to vote.
She then drops out.
They let Garcia.
Now, Robert Garcia, from all honesty, is a great guy.
I ain't never heard of him.
In fact.
He is great.
Yeah, but here's the deal though.
I ain't never ever used a clip of Robert Garcia.
I can't even remember coming across
in terms of these hearings.
Now, Latifah, Summer Lee, Crockett, Frost,
Now, Latifah, Summer Lee, Crockett, Frost, my man,
I can't remember him, the guy from Texas, the new guy from Texas, I've seen that.
I'm like, okay, I'm like, all right, who you?
And again, I'm flipping through right now,
I'm going through his Twitter feed,
you know what I see?
I see, come on, switch y'all.
I see MSNBC clip, I see MSNBC clip,
I see MSNBC clip, I see MSNBC clip,
I see MSNBC clip, I see MSNBC clip,
and I'm just simply saying, say dawg,
if you wanna sit here, if you wanna sit here,
if you wanna sit here and reach some folk,
then you gonna have to sit here and talk to,
you gonna have to talk to some non-sources.
And I don't know what they doing,
in terms of why they chose them.
And I've seen a lot of these stories, Nola,
well, you know, I'm not quite sure what went down.
They don't like Crockett, this, that, and the other.
But guess what?
She raised more money than them.
In demand is communicating in a way
where a new generation is appealing to them.
And so where I come from,
I'ma get the ball to my shooter who's hoopin'.
Like, if I'm playing ball,
I mean, you might be a good rebounder,
but if she's scoring, yo, I'm passing you the rock.
I'm putting you in position to score,
and I don't know what's wrong with the Democrats.
They sort of want this nicety
and I don't want you to be too loud
and I don't want you to be too aggressive.
I don't, I'm not understanding what their strategy is.
Maybe you got some better insight,
cause I don't know.
Well, you're not gonna like what I'm going to say. Robert's a friend.
That's fine. He can be a friend. He can be a friend.
I ain't never heard of his ass. Go ahead. I just said, listen,
we can start singing a whining or friend, but I'm just simply saying,
I ain't never heard of his ass, but go ahead.
Well, first of all, Robert ain't that nice. He not that sweet.
And he is a fierce defender for the LGBTQIA community,
which is he's gone viral multiple times for clapping back.
Before actually representative Crockett
actually got to Congress,
he was actually the one keeping foot on neck
with Marjorie Taylor Green.
But honestly, how I feel about it, if it wasn't her, I'm glad that it is him.
He's a very skilled lawyer.
He's a very skilled communicator.
And like I said, he is a fierce defender for his LGBTQIA community.
And he was a very effective mayor and Long Beach.
And so, you know, while — when I attended Recy and Clay's town hall,
when Representative Crockett kind of made the statement
about she wasn't the favorite, my worry was,
okay, who's going to be the favorite?
And when it was Robert, I actually, I was okay with that
because he's not nice, he's not sweet,
and he will keep that energy and take it to you.
He's not sweet and he will keep that energy and take it to you.
So-
I'm gonna need to see it then
cause thus far I ain't seen it.
And I spent a whole lot of time pulling clips
and watching stuff and I'm just saying, that's just me.
Recy real quick before I gotta go to Congress
where all my happens.
Well, look, he's in the crosshairs of the DOJ
because he made a joke of Eliima's dick pics in the hearing,
and so they want to prosecute him for that.
So he's definitely under the skin of the people
of the administration.
He definitely got that fire.
I'm Team Jasmine Crockett,
but I'm also Team Robert Garcia.
He ain't no slouch.
Keep an eye on him.
That's fine.
He might not be a slouch,
but I need to see him on fire.
I'm just simply saying, I don't see him.
And you will, and he has to.
All right.
I'm telling you, I'm gonna send you a clip.
I'm gonna send you a clip.
No, no, no, I need to see more than a clip.
I need to see a body of work.
I'll send you a body of work.
I need to see a body of work,
because all I'm saying is,
if you Democrats across the country,
who are you asking to come speak
at your Democratic fundraising dinner?
Are you asking Garcia or you asking Crockett?
I'm just simply saying, I'ma put my hot folks in position
and I'm not gonna have them on the sideline, on the bench.
I'm putting them on the court.
That's all I'm saying.
All right, y'all.
Is that? But she did drop out of the race. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, putting them on the court. That's all I'm saying. All right, y'all. But she did drop out the race.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Hold up.
No, she didn't drop out the race.
Leadership took a vote and they signaled to all the members
how we want you to vote.
And then once she saw that, then it was, let me drop out.
That's all, that wasn't no, that wasn't no normal drop out.
That's no, no, that ain't how it went.
That ain't how it went.
Rollin, I think the strategy, I'm saying,
the Democratic Party isn't in shambles.
It is what it always is.
It's the place we can use to advance our interests.
It's the South White Nationalist Party.
So there's several things going on here.
We all know, of course, it's reported
that they wanted Stephen Lynch, the 70-year-old. So what they did yesterday was break seniority.
Put a pen in that, but when they're in the majority and Crockett can run again as the chair,
the ranking member ain't got a whole lot of power. They got their bomb throws on both sides over
there. Let them talk. We talk about the clips. We don't hear the chairs, especially when they're
in the minority. I think there is a strategy at play here, but
it's because people like Mamdani, whose father is a famous Africanist who was born in Uganda,
the people like that are forcing the Democrats to have to choose. This is what Bernie Sanders
is saying. If you're going to get down to these young people, these progressives, are
y'all going to have no party because we're going to take your party?
Yep.
They're using the Democratic Party as a host, and that's the way you have to use these parties.
Well, I'm gonna need them to be libitmo fired up.
All right, Iran, all this drama,
bombing nuclear sites.
You got Trump and Heg said, Tom,
but oh, we obliterated, but we can't really back it up.
It's all kind of nonsense.
But the question is, where do we move forward?
Where do we go?
There was a security hearing.
Members came out of that saying, we ain't seeing the evidence
they keep talking about.
There were a number of senators who said that.
Congresswoman Alma Adams of North Carolina
joins us right now.
And Congresswoman, glad to have you.
First of all, let's get her a signal.
Glad to have you on the show.
The thing here, a lot of people are literally,
a lot of folk are literally worried about what's next.
You've got Trump and Hexseth painting this picture
of how amazing and beautiful and unbelievable
and fantastical all this stuff was. But we also know
both of them prone to lie and just make stuff up. So the question is, what do we make of this?
Congresswoman, what do we make of what's going on? And can we really trust these two liars
to tell us the truth?
Well, thank you, Roland.
It's good to see you.
And yes, you always have a very spirited show.
I was enjoying the conversation.
As a matter of fact,
we have not heard the results of anything.
We haven't had a briefing.
The briefing that was scheduled was postponed.
First it was canceled and now it's back on for tomorrow.
But we're also told that we're gonna tell you some of it,
but we're not gonna tell you all of it.
So it's really, in terms of the trust here,
I'm not sure that what we'll get will be the truth, the whole
truth and nothing but the truth.
Blaming Democrats for leaking information, but the same White House was proud to say
they didn't inform Democrats about what was going down.
Now, you can't have it both ways.
How you going to accuse somebody of leaking, but then you were proud to say we never told
them?
That's right. Democrats were not informed. So if the leak, if there was a leak, it didn't
come from Democrats. It came from the administration more than likely, or it came from the Republicans
that they shared information with. Now, this president has said in his inauguration, I'm
going to be a president for all the people.
But he seems to focus primarily on Republicans.
And even when you look across this country, in every district, you've got Democrats and
Republicans and some people who claim no party affiliation.
So I just think they're going to have to step it up.
There will be a lot of questions, I'm sure, tomorrow.
We'll see if there are going to be any answers.
Obviously, a lot of folks are concerned here.
And here really is the question that people want answered.
Does the United States do whatever Israel wants us to do,
or are we actually operating in our best interest?
I mean, that's a question that I hear from lots of folk
about what's going on here.
We got having an issue with the congresswoman's signal,
so hopefully it comes back.
But that's something that people keep talking about.
That is, what decisions are we making?
Are we making decisions in the best interest of the United States, or is it whatever Israel
wants to do, then we just do?
Well, certainly, Israel has been not only a partner, but an ally.
And I've supported Israel, and I still do.
But I do think in this particular case, we haven't heard from the president
in terms of what the goal was.
And I think always we have to, as the president,
he does need to operate with the best interest
of the US in mind.
But having said that, I still think in terms of our allies, we have to be supportive.
But in this case, we still don't know what happened, truly, and to what extent they were
successful.
We've heard that different—different comments about—from different people about, well, yeah, it was successful.
Another term, the intelligent, another term.
People on the street will use another term.
So, we'll have to challenge this administration
and I think they're gonna see that one tomorrow.
All right then, well, look, we'll see what happens next.
Again, there's nothing I trust from lying down Trump
and lying Pete Hicks.
Nothing.
Absolutely nothing.
Well, if you think about it, Roland, everything
the president says, whoever is in his administration,
they repeat what he says.
So it's almost like hearing him over and over and over again,
because if you don't say what he thinks you should say
and in support of him, you're fired.
He's used to saying that in the show he had, you're fired.
So I think a lot of folks are gonna be moving along
if they don't completely agree with what he has to say.
Well, it absolutely is a cult.
That's what it is.
And so keep fighting the good fight.
We appreciate it.
Thanks a lot.
Yes, sir.
Thank you so much, Roland.
You keep it up.
Will do.
Thanks a bunch, folks.
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All right, folks, more questions with regards to the 2024 election and whether or not it
was legitimate.
Various analysis have been done and people have been saying, wait a minute, hold up,
how in the world could Donald Trump win all of the battleground states?
Pew came out with their breakdown of the election today and they literally said that
even if there was a dramatic increase of folks who voted in this election, Donald Trump would have
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there's an increase in people voting, it favors the Democrats. Well, a leading expert in election forensics,
Dr. Walter Mabane Jr. at the University of Michigan
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suggesting potential vote manipulation
in the 2024 presidential election.
His report analyzed 7 million votes
across all 67 Pennsylvania counties and found that
between 25,000 and 225,440 votes in the presidential race could have been fraudulent.
His results support the findings released by the Nonpartisan Election Truth Alliance.
Nathan Taylor, the executive director of the Election Truth Alliance joins us right now.
Nathan, glad to have you here.
So walk us through this,
and there's somebody who's watching who's saying,
all right, this is system,
Donald Trump was saying it was rigged in 2016,
rigged in 2020,
now this is just the left saying
it was rigged against them in 2024.
Thanks so much for having me again. A lot of fun times we've had in the past.
It's it's felt like just yesterday, but it's been months now. So a little bit
about my background. As you said, I am one of the executive directors of the
Election Truth Alliance, nonpartisan nonprofit organization that is we kind
of put it together to investigate the 24
election, past elections and future elections. And I think what's important here is, as you said,
is there's been a lot of talk about this recently, but I do want to highlight what we're
specifically talking about and the findings of Dr. Walter Mebben. This is not voter fraud.
This is election fraud.
And the difference is voter fraud
is from people who may cast their votes.
Election fraud is specifically a concern of a system
or a systemic issue that's changing
how people vote against their will.
And I think that's what's important
is the work that I've been doing in the ETA and all of our volunteers.
It's focused on, are there concerns of our systems
and are they free and fair?
And what can we do to dive deeper?
So to kind of highlight that for North Carolina,
we did prepare a nice PowerPoint and some data points
for you. I don't know if you have that available or not. But let's talk a little bit about
Dr. Walter Mebben, his findings and his background. If you're familiar, if you're not familiar,
he's honestly like one of the leading election fraud experts in the United States and in the world, honestly.
He was a part of a team that USAID actually provided a grant, and he made a election fraud toolkit that has been applied for multiple elections. He's wrote papers for previous
elections, I think 2019, and he actually looked at the 2020 presidential election as well
and found no significant concerns of election fraud benefiting the winning candidate then.
So what is really interesting is not only has he brought up his own concerns for Pennsylvania,
which we've published our findings on our website as well. But we have also worked with him for North Carolina
and he's provided us his analysis of North Carolina,
the entire state.
So let's see if we can get any visuals up.
If not, we'll do this the old fashioned way.
Let's see.
Yeah, so here's what I have up.
You have here why analyze North Carolina. and you say layout here, for example, when
comparing presidential to superintendent race, Kamala Harris received 122,231 fewer votes
than Maurice Green, while Trump received 191,470 more votes than Michelle Morrow.
Now for folks to understand, this is what happened in North Carolina.
Democrats won the governor's mansion,
lieutenant governor, attorney general,
secretary of state, superintendent,
and the Supreme Court race,
but Harris lost the White House.
And people are like, how in the hell did that happen?
So now go right ahead.
Yep, and so what this is highlighting is,
this is kind of that overview.
If you're familiar, a lot of people such as Smart Elections,
they talk about drop-off votes.
I like to call them down-ballot differences.
And that's what you're highlighting is,
all across the swing states,
for the 2024 presidential election, the Democrats won up and down the ticket, but then Harris lost
at the presidential level. And so what's really interesting is we initially started digging into
that before we got into the more advanced statistics, such as what Dr. Walter Mevin does.
And we're just highlighting here that all across every county
in North Carolina, just to begin,
we're seeing that Harris is always underperforming
the Democrats on the same ticket.
So we're talking, in this case, we're
looking at the superintendent race,
and we're seeing that she is getting up to 122,000 less votes across all of these counties.
But Trump, on the other hand, is he's always overperforming his party candidates.
So you have right here, first down ballot analysis, 2016 North Carolina presidential
versus superintendent. And so what you're showing here, and I'm just going to zoom in here, the blue.
Yeah, this is 2016. And so what you're showing here, and I'm just going to zoom in here. The blue is—
Yeah, this is 2016.
Right.
So the blue is Dem.
So this is two elections ago.
The blue is Dem.
The red is Republican.
And so what you're showing is—so we see these blue lines below zero.
So explain what that is.
Yep.
So what we're looking at here is the zero line is the amount of votes the superintendent got for both parties.
And then if you are above the line, as you said, the blue is Democrats. In this case,
it was, I believe, Hillary Clinton in 2016. So if you're above the zero line, you got
more votes than the superintendent of your party.
So that was 2000. That was 2016. Yes. But then we go down to 2020. Yeah. Well, what's
really interesting, as you'll see in comparison, is 2016, both candidates
on average were overperforming. They were both sitting pretty solidly across. And it
was very back and forth, right? Some of them had more votes in some areas, some were sitting
a little lower. We don't see a lot of negative votes here. We don't see a lot of negative
drop off. And that's what's important is we think if this is what a more normal election looks like across a state, every
county, now let's look at 2024. And here, that is a stark difference in, wait a minute,
wait a minute, come on, switch to NOLA. NOLA's over here going, oh my God.
Oh my God.
Yeah.
This is just the beginning, because in this case, this is North Carolina.
We're seeing this trend across a majority of the swing states.
We're talking the more interesting ones as well.
Pennsylvania for their election day voting looks very similar.
And so what's important here, as we said, the zero line here on the left axis,
zero is the amount of votes the superintendent got.
And if you're above the line, you got more votes.
If you're below the line, you got less votes.
And each of these lines, there's a red and a blue line per county.
And so what's important here is we are seeing
across every county in North Carolina.
Not one county.
Not one county.
I think there's technically one where it's such a small
underperformance that it shows almost nothing.
But pretty much every county,
Harris is underperforming the superintendent.
In the entire state.
In the entire state.
But if I go back to 16, this is 16.
And you see one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight,
nine, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19.
Matter of fact, it's easier to count the superintendent rates.
So out of all the counties in North Carolina in 16,
so the blue below zero superintendent, right?
The blue below zero is the presidential Hillary Clinton.
Is the presidential.
So only in one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight,
nine, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 22, So only in 123456789101112131415161718192121222324526.
So 28 counties in 2016, Hillary Clinton was below the superintendent.
Correct?
What's what's correct?
Is that correct?
Yeah, that's 28.
Just 2824.
Every important though, as you said, is when you look at 2016 you see that both candidates overperformed right see in some places the Democrats
Over-performed significantly and they were exceeding the amount of over performance the Republicans had but in 24 there is it's zero
overperformance
Yes, and that's what's important is this does not match
what you would expect to see
as normal human voting behavior.
Wow.
This is inconsistent across every county.
There's no variation.
This raises alarms of potential systemic manipulation.
And when you say, go ahead, I'm sorry.
Go ahead. And so as you said, ahead, I'm sorry. Go ahead.
And so, you said systemic.
When we talk about systemic is people go and they vote,
and per county, it's going to be a little bit more random.
Systemic manipulation is going to have
an impact across multiple counties, multiple precincts,
which normal human voting behavior can't do.
You can't coordinate at that level.
So what would cause this?
Right, that's the question is what would cause,
in this case, Harris to underperform so consistently
across every county in North Carolina?
Do you have any thoughts?
There's some common.
I mean, that's, I mean, it's,
to your point, and this is the thing that people,
this is impossible.
Listen, there are a number of counties,
especially in the black belt in North Carolina,
where there are a significant,
remember, Obama wins North Carolina
by 14,100 votes in 2008.
There are a lot of counties there
where there are a lot of black people.
This is saying, nah, mm-mm, nobody liked her.
She underperformed across the entire state.
Everywhere.
Yeah.
And what the concern here is, sure, you could have a candidate that's unpopular, but this
is too consistent. This is far too consistent, and we have more. If we go back
up to the quantifying potential impacts, let's talk a little bit about Dr. Walter Meben and his
findings. And we have hard numbers for you. We have estimated if this is caused by a systemic issue,
estimated if this is caused by a systemic issue.
Let's say for example, you're deleting votes. And so we've raised concerns.
The ETA has raised concerns about the tabulation machines
used across the US.
There are vote counting machines
and then there are voting machines.
They're not the same thing.
And that's what's confusing for a lot of people.
Is this what you want up?
The quantifying potential impact? Yeah, this is great. Got it. And so's what's confusing for a lot of people. Is this what you want up? The quantifying potential impact?
Yeah, this is great. And so we are concerned and we are diving deeper into the machines
that count the votes. And to quote a individual on his pre-inauguration night, he thanked
a certain very involved individual that knows a lot about vote counting computers, and they
won Pennsylvania like in a landslide.
So what we're going to highlight here is, as you mentioned, Dr. Walter Mebbin.
He's a professor at the University of Michigan.
He runs the Department of Political Science and Statistics.
He is in our, like we've looked, he is the leading expert in election forensics in the
U.S.
There's not a lot of people who have more experience than him that have done more. He's wrote multiple papers.
He is cited by newspapers, and he's kind of held up as a credible source of election fraud
analysis. And so he has his own model that he has made. It's called e-forensics. And he has been
developing this and using this, and he has applied it to Pennsylvania and has applied it to North Carolina.
And he's provided us with those reports.
He's put the Pennsylvania analysis up on his website.
But in this case, we've not released North Carolina yet.
No one has seen this yet.
So we're going to talk about it.
So what he did is he analyzed the statewide data
for North Carolina.
We did the same, we use a different analysis method.
It's not as advanced.
It's called linear regression analysis.
We just look at the trend, what is a human voting behavior,
and then are there patterns that are not normal
for a human to display across every precinct.
And that's kind of what we do.
We do it at a county level.
We add it all up.
So his analysis for North Carolina,
a working paper that he shared with us,
it estimates based on his model,
up to 206, 207,000 possibly fraudulent votes.
There is a caveat.
That is the higher level.
He has a stronger confidence or a high confidence
of 102,000 or so votes.
And so he does categorize his votes
by how likely they are from, you know,
malicious activity to voting patterns, et cetera.
But what's important here,
the margin of victory for Trump in North Carolina at the
presidential level, it's 183, 184,000 votes. So if that higher estimate is caused by potential
revote manipulation, deletion, addition, whatever could be caused at the tabulation level,
that would be enough to change the outcome
of the presidential race in North Carolina.
Any questions there?
So what jumps out at me is,
does anybody give a damn?
Is it our Democrats saying anything
or independents saying anything
or folks just going,
we don't want to sound like conspiracy theories.
We don't want to sound like them.
So we're just not going to address this at all
because what you're laying out is saying that
if that happened in 2024,
whatever that system,
it could happen again in 2028 and 2032 and beyond.
That is the concern we've raised time and time again is if this is caused by the tabulation machines being messed with,
it's not been resolved. It's not been investigated.
And that's really what we're doing is we're highlighting it.
I have spoken to multiple different states' organizations.
We've reached out to multiple political parties. And it's not that they aren't interested.
It's not that they aren't willing to listen. The problem is they're not willing to talk
about it. They're not willing to help us investigate. They're not willing to help us get recounts
or audits to make sure, does the physical
votes, does the vote that the voter cast match what we're getting told is the results.
And that's what's frustrating is it's, I feel like such a taboo because of the last two
and four years that, as we said, this is an election denial.
This isn't us saying, hey, the elections are stolen, let's go storm the Capitol.
This is us saying, hey, our process is potentially flawed.
Let's investigate it.
Let's make it better.
And then we go from there.
And it's not that hard to do.
The reason why we're doing this and we're putting out these reports and we're
highlighting these concerns is we're saying, hey, we've told you where to go
look, work with us.
Let's go look.
Let's go open up the ballot boxes.
Let's go hand count the ballots.
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to the table, such as what we're trying to do in Pennsylvania, is we've reached out
to the Secretary of State there multiple times, presented him with our findings.
Dr. Mebbin has a report as well for Pennsylvania. And I can pull that up here in a moment in terms
of the numbers, but we're saying, hey, if there was manipulation, it was potentially so much to
change the presidential race in Pennsylvania as well. And we're getting silence so far.
Well, well, and keep in mind, Republicans in North Carolina,
what they did was they removed the authority
over the state election board from the governor,
lieutenant governor, attorney general, secretary of state,
and gave it to the state auditor.
Cause that's the only,
that's the only state of opposition they won.
Questions from our panel.
Nola, your eyes have been like wide open for the past 10 15 minutes.
So you go first.
Yeah. Wow. So many questions.
I'm a political scientist.
So my mouth is agape and my question was actually going to be did you run any
regressions and you already answered that question.
So I guess, you know, for me,
this seems very different from leaning into Russia,
you know, had something to do with the election. For me, I am looking at hardcore data. There's
no variation. There's enough information here to definitely ask questions. So is the next step in
what you all are trying to do is exactly what you're doing tonight,
to take this case to the media, to take this case to the public, to then maybe put pressure
on some of these states so some kind of investigation can occur?
Is that part of this strategy that you're deploying right now?
Yep.
We have, at this point, we're kind of doing two things at the same time is one,
we're putting out these reports, we're talking about it publicly, you know, trying to make
people aware of the concerns. And then the other half is we are trying to work with the
counties and the states to get those audits done. I will say we've had some places that
aren't in where we've made public kind of willing to work with us. But what's important is the chain of custody is really important
because the physical votes is what we're after and we want to make sure those are
maintained well so that if there is a recount and an audit of them
we're confident that those are what people originally cast.
That's what we keep pushing for is just trying to raise awareness.
As I said, we have the data,
we're gonna keep putting out the data,
and we're more than happy for people to review this.
We have a dashboard up on our website
where you can actually go and download
the data for Pennsylvania.
And when we put out our North Carolina report,
hopefully next week or so,
you can go and download the data
and you can do these analysis yourself.
You can do a regression analysis yourself, as you said,
and spot check. Racy. Thank you for presenting this data. I'm a data girl so I do appreciate it.
I'm curious, it sounds to me like you do think that the ballots, the physical ballots would
say something different. So is it your hypothesis or the range of hypotheses that this is a hardware issue in terms of the vote tabulation,
or could this be multiple pronged,
or could it be the reporting aspect from even if votes
are tabulated correctly, when that is reported,
those results are transmitted that that
is where this manipulation is happening.
What are your thoughts on it? So I will first say that we don't fully know,
in terms of all the options, there are multiple ways that this could have happened.
The leading theory we have that we've tested time and time again and has seemed to hold up so far,
as we said, is we're concerned that the tabulation machines
themselves, depending on brands, there's only two major brands.
There's technically a handful of major voting machine brands and polling system brands,
but the top two span 70% of the US.
And I will say that the places we found manipulation do happen to use those major brands.
And the concern, as you said, is we are worried that if there is a compromise of the tabulation
system, malicious activity, a third party, we don't truly know.
It looks the same on paper.
All our analysis says is, hey, there are these anomalies, and they are occurring in such
a way that this matches election, you know, potential election fraud seen in Russian elections, seen in recently
Poland elections.
And Poland just recently had some findings where they found there were not only concerns
of election fraud, but they went and they did recounts.
And they found, I think, over 10 or 12 polling stations so far where it swapped the outcome of those locations.
You said 70% of voting equipment compromised nationally.
Go back to the graphic.
And then you said the voting technology,
brand one prevalence was used in 93 of the 100 counties
in North Carolina.
So as you said, there are two major brands,
but there's a third and a fourth that we do see pop up.
What is important here is there have been concerns
of the compromise of these systems.
For example, Free Speech for People
had multiple cybersecurity and computer tech experts
write a co-author a paper and talk about compromising
concerns back in 22 and earlier. We've dug into this as well. We are seeing concerns going back
to 2016 for, for example, in Florida. There were two different counties that reported malware on
some of their voting system, some of their systems they have.
And I will highlight this, and this is what is important,
is the common argument we hear is,
well, our voting systems aren't connected to the internet.
My background is in cybersecurity.
I was a 25 Bravo computer tech specialist in the Army
reserves and then became a signal officer in the Army Guard
after I got my degree.
I've looked into how we're running our systems.
I have concerns because the largest tabulation system and poll book system we use does potentially
have modems in them, cellular modems.
So I think it's inaccurate to say that they're not connected to the internet and you couldn't
do something.
There are so many opportunities to mess with systems.
The only way to make sure that they're not being messed with
is making sure we do appropriate audits.
Those audits are double checked by third parties
and then physically looking at the votes as well
and doing some hand counts where there are anomalies.
And that's what we're doing, right?
Is we're highlighting, here are the anomalies.
Let's go look.
Greg.
Thank you, Roland. And thank you for this report.
I kind of just am starting to glance through Professor McVine's Pennsylvania numbers,
and they are quite stunning.
Thinking about Donald Trump back in March, I guess, when he was talking about Elon Musk
knowing these computers, these computers, these voting computers. And look, we ended up winning Pennsylvania
landslide. And I love how, you know, Trump doesn't retain a whole lot in his mind.
So when he repeats a phrase like vote counting computers, he's moved from
voting machines to something quite different maybe. And so maybe you previewed
for us where you all are headed. I'm wondering if it's too early to talk lawsuits.
I don't know necessarily who approved standing.
Are you hoping maybe through these audits
to get down maybe to, I don't wanna say a smoking gun,
but a chain that would allow a voter,
I'm sure they'd throw it out and say,
well, you can't prove your vote was manipulated
or I think the phrase that he uses is subject to,
was subject to malevolent manipulation.
I'm like, damn, this is a strong language for an academic.
But could you imagine a lawsuit at some point and if so, what might it look like?
So that's an excellent question.
I can and we've kind of planned out some of those concerns as we push forward.
Lawsuits are honestly kind of the last resort, right?
We want to work with the counties so that they are willing to do these investigations.
The states are willing to do these investigations because lawsuits are slow and they give a
lot of time that we really don't have, right?
We're already six, seven months into this term and the midterms are just around the
corner. And if these machines aren't being looked into
and there are problems,
then the midterms are potentially up next.
So what would a lawsuit look like?
At this point, as you said, it comes down to standing.
What can we prove?
And is statistical analysis enough evidence
to really open those ballot boxes?
We found that no one knows.
This has not really been done at this level before.
The closest examples we have are two and four years ago,
and those didn't go very well.
I think 60-plus lawsuits,
and none of them really got good results.
But in that case, so for us, I think what we'll do first,
and as we've been doing, is we're pushing
for some targeted recounts in places where we are finding anomalies.
If those audits and those recounts show the concerns that we are seeing, then that actually, think of it as a domino effect, right?
If we prove this happened anywhere that our analysis brings up anomalies, then theoretically anywhere that our analysis shows
anomalies could have been manipulated as well.
And I hope that'll open the doors.
For example, we recently did an analysis for Minnesota.
I had someone personally send that analysis off to individuals in Minnesota.
And so hopefully they are willing to come to the table as well.
And I do have some numbers. I think we were looking at potentially up to 88,000 anomalous votes
in Minnesota, even though Minnesota was won very handily by the Democrats.
So I think what's important is if this happens, if there's a compromise of the tabulation machines,
it didn't just happen in places that it needed to change the outcome.
It potentially happened anywhere that these systems are being used,
and that makes it easier on us to go and work with places that may be
more willing to sit down and ask these questions and do the work to verify.
Thank you.
To that point about Minnesota, remember, a lot during the election, you kept hearing,
wait a minute, is Minnesota in play?
Is Minnesota in play?
You heard all of that and folks talking about how Minnesota has changed.
So, I think to your point, you take a blue state and you're able to examine this
and show what happened,
then you can say, hey, let's look elsewhere.
It is absolutely fascinating.
Hopefully these county elections,
state election folks will listen
and just wanna get to the heart of the matter
because just look, Republicans keep talking about
the integrity of the ballot box.
Well, let's see if they actually mean it. Nathan Taylor, we appreciate it.
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Name or
no name. I don't like him.
We know that.
We know.
We know
that. But you have to tell her because she asked you and this is part
of your test what his name is.
Or what's his first name?
Nothing.
Sorry. That's it. That's my feeling.
I'm paying everything.
No, I'm with her.
I'm with her.
Damn it.
Y'all should have asked for the governor or the mayor,
but she like, nah, I ain't naming his punk ass.
She said, I have not called a candy man over here.
She said, I will not invoke the devil today, Lord.
Right.
Right.
That's exactly what she said.
She said, I will not.
Mama, mama.
That's something my mama would have did.
Mama, just say his name.
She like, Reese, she don't give a damn.
She like, nah, we gonna sit here.
We gonna, hey, Reese, I think she passed the cognitive test.
Absolutely she did.
The whole thing is, do you have your faculties around you?
And if you have the discernment to know that Donald Trump ain't shit, then you absolutely
passed the cognitive test with flying colors.
It just reminded me of Bernie Sanders, not Bernie Sanders, ooh, Bernie Mac, him downstairs.
You know, like I'm not even gonna say your name, you just him downstairs.
Who here?
Him downstairs.
Him downstairs. Him downstairs.
Because I want some milk and cookies.
You're wearing cookies and shit.
Yeah, him downstairs.
Oh, go ahead, granny.
I don't even matter.
Go ahead.
Say what you want to say or don't.
Greg, when I saw that video, I said, oh, hell, yes.
I'm rolling that one on the show.
No, absolutely.
You know, she was sitting there,
she looks like my mother.
I could see my mom, like you said,
I could see my mom doing the same thing.
Yeah.
And of course now, on the pain of being marked
at somehow mentally diminished,
and God only knows what that triggers,
but as I was sitting there, as we were sitting there,
I'm looking at that nurse,
that white nurse sitting there,
who eventually says, I'll take nothing.
But I'm thinking, how many people
in the United States of America,
where there are still,
I think that white nurse we saw
is maybe one of maybe five or six
left white nurses in the country.
And of course, the ones who are not white,
how many of them are immigrants?
We're all about to find out. But I'm thinking about that lady sitting there and saying, what if
that was a waiting room or an examination room in Iowa or rural Mississippi? What if
it was in rural Alabama? And while there may be some jokes in that room, when it's time
to come out and pay the bill and you realize your Medicaid has had its throat cut, it's
not funny games. So I just couldn't help but think about the humanity of everyone caught up in
this racist world. We just got news, of course, that the Senate people are like, hey, man,
you can't do this to this bill and it be legal. At least it will violate Senate policy. And
so we may be in for a hell of a ride, but at the end of the day, they've been trying
to get car valves
for those rural hospitals.
They're trying to pinch off some money here
and feed their MAGA constituents.
But all I saw in that room was a woman
who could be my mother saying, I ain't doing that.
And as a dutiful child, me saying, okay.
And a white woman sitting on a stool
that might represent a constituency
and places in this country.
And in a minute, you won't be able to have that conversation
because there won't be no jobs saying,
I'll take nothing.
We can get along.
If we ain't got no money,
it could be that sister would jump off that examination table
and choke that white woman if it comes down to her
losing her cover.
Well, we can all be kiki and I'll take nothing
or the bell can ring, we ain't got no money.
At that point, all this, you know,
feel good gonna turn into a fight.
See, I'm just not interested,
I'm not interested in any of the nonsense.
See, I'm not about, see, I have zero tolerance
for those folk, I'm just telling you right now.
It's just like, I don't know how many of y'all saw this video.
This black woman was in an automotive place
in North Carolina, and they were talking.
And Juneteenth came up, and she heard the conversation.
And she was like, oh hell no, bring me my car.
Y'all watch this. We're going to go over to stop this.
Cause then we're good.
Yeah, before when I went to the thing, I got this.
Turn audio up.
Okay.
Yeah, we're going over to one, two, three, step.
Yeah.
That's our voice.
That's our voice. I don't want them.
Please go get my children.
Thank you.
Is this a guest room right here?
No, it's a very few problems.
We said you can eat this all day tomorrow. Yeah, I'm not. I thought it has something to do with reparations. Now, Reece, the company thought that they
were doing something by saying, oh, we're going to post the video ourselves. They made
it worse. And guess what? Right. Folk were like, don't get your car fixed there. I'm with that sister.
No, no. Bring my shit around.
No, no. I am not giving y'all money.
Y'all want to sit here and mock Juneteenth.
Yo, we out.
Period. If you want to
then you can get my motherfucking keys
because I'm not getting my service here.
You're not taking my money.
I don't even see what's funny about Juneteenth. Y'all need to be more ashamed because what the Republicans have been
saying is that if you teach people about the history of slavery in this country that white
folks is going through so ashamed of themselves, little white kids gonna have low self-esteem.
So instead of Kee Kee, you should be sitting up there saying you get a free oil challenge today.
You'll get a free oil challenge today, but only if you black.
That will be reparation.
The place is called, that's Wilson, North Carolina,
and a place is called Synergy Auto Care.
Synergy Auto Care.
And yo, listen, hey Greg,
it's been several places I fly in airports.
Matter of fact, I remember I went to go pick up my navigator
from the dealer, and they had Fox News.
Y'all got to change the TV.
Oh, wow.
No, I don't play that.
If I got to sit my ass in this waiting room,
ain't nobody watching Fox News.
I'm kind of the same.
I don't give a damn.
I'm like, no, no.
I'm going to need y'all to turn the TV.
And they might look, I'm like,
I ain't watching Fox News.
Y'all gonna turn the damn TV.
No, hell no, we ain't, we ain't roll.
My deal is, that's how we gonna roll.
Well, brother, I tell you,
I'm sure you spent a great deal of time
getting TVs turned, especially-
You damn right I do. You know, because I think that's the, I'm sure you spend a great deal of time getting TVs turned especially
Because I think that's the that's the default
Channel on so many and I think that there's a story behind that but you know, yeah, like I said more power to you brother I just be like what I put my AirPods in all even but but yeah
I heard you saying and that's and that's the strategy we should we should pursue. I we have to make noise, just like the Assista did. I'm not going to spend my money here.
I think today is the day, the anniversary of the day that Kresgeck King started the Martin Luther
King Center. And I think about those who would say there are ways to build bridges with these
folks. We can reason with them and we can try to figure things out. And there are people, non-black people,
we just got news today that Bill Moyers,
the great journalist, made transition at 91.
Yeah, passed away at the age of 91, yep.
Yes sir, and I think about, now here's a guy
who hopped into Johnson administration,
worked inside government, but also became a journalist
who spoke truth to power, and he's a white man.
There are ways to do that,
but if you can't appeal to people's morals and you've given them chance after chance and then they're in a
situation where they think they're in power, which means they're not thinking about you,
and they say something like that, then I'm not going to argue with you. I'm leaving now.
And now the real test would have been who else got up? But guess what? They went on right back
to daylight. Why? Because we don't count. and all you niggeros that think that your master somehow gonna love you
You should probably run that paper that that clip right there on the loop not just what she did
But in the few seconds we saw after where nobody else got up and walked out and there's the problem
Well, I will close this out. No look that was his other video. Well black woman was called a
We'll close this out, Nola. That was this other video where a black woman
was called a bitch by the waitress.
And man, folk lit that bar up,
and then the owner comes out, you know,
don't apologize, try to explain away.
We getting harassed, we getting phone calls.
They sitting here giving us bad ratings,
and folk like, mm-mm, no, no, we ain't going to your bar.
See, the thing that I keep, I need our people to understand.
That's called economic withdrawal.
We don't have to spend, I talk all the time
about MLK's sermon on April 3rd, 1968.
And he makes, he said, he said,
we ain't gotta throw the mild top cocktail.
We ain't gotta raise our voices.
He said, we just withdraw our money.
He said, if you not gonna do right by us,
we gonna take our money elsewhere.
And that's what we do in the Target.
You've got that boycott that's all week with McDonald's.
You've got people who are using's all week with McDonald's.
You've got people who are using their power.
The reality is this here.
We don't have to spend our money at places where we ain't respected.
And so, absolutely, and penalize them.
Light them up on social.
Give them awful ratings.
Throw a picket up at their joint.
Let everybody know, don't come here
where they got some ignorant fools here,
and this is how you make them pay.
You make them pay at the pocketbook.
Absolutely, and we've seen it be effective, right?
And I think we need the next iteration.
We need the next step to this
because we see this administration gutting small business loans and opportunities for small business owners,
especially black folks, to get loans to open these businesses.
So we need to start thinking about how to build upon this momentum and build that infrastructure to give entrepreneurs and small business owners resources
to open up establishments that can counter the myriad
of things that we are experiencing in these places
because the economic withdrawal is absolutely working.
I'm very curious to see what that's gonna look like
for McDonald's.
That's gonna be a very interesting test,
but I think the next step of this is infrastructure
and investing in our own businesses
because it's not gonna happen from the federal government.
It's not gonna be support there.
So we need to start thinking about that part of it.
Absolutely, go ahead.
The one thing I wanna say,
two quick things about the video before that.
Was that a sister who stayed and she didn't like walk out with her and then secondly they continued the
conversation and continued to demean Juneteenth. Did I get all right? Yeah they continued the
conversation they said I think I think it has something to do with reparations. That's what
they said. And so here's all I have for everybody watching.
I need y'all to do me a favor, okay?
And I've done this before.
If y'all gonna shoot videos, don't shoot vertical.
Don't shoot vertical, okay?
Because see, when y'all shoot vertical,
we got black bars on the side.
I need y'all to shoot, I need y'all to shoot horizontal.
And see, and look, if y'all gonna, let me show you, I need to shoot. I need y'all to shoot horizontal and see and look at y'all go. Let me show you now come to
me say I'm helping out see let me just give y'all this is a
selfie lesson a video lesson. I want you to hold your phone
like this and see that way you can maneuver and do me a favor
keep that shit steady. I can't stand some of y'all some of
y'all shooting videos and y'all,
come on, come give me the shot. Some of y'all be like, no,
give me this. Some of y'all be like, all is here. See,
I need y'all to see that here. Steady. Look how I'm holding it. See? Steady.
That way we can see. No, no. Give me a shot of holding a phone. See this here?
Steady. Y'all see how you see my fingers here? I ain't blocking the camera.
We ain't doing that.
Matter of fact, some of y'all can't shoot
with the camera up top.
So just turn your phone this way
and have the camera at the bottom.
So that way your fingers are nowhere.
But if y'all gonna shoot, shoot, that's right.
Shoot this way, that way your phone is locked.
Y'all see how steady this is?
And then come on, give me the shot.
See this here?
Yeah, boom.
See, we ain't shaking.
We ain't shaking.
Then when they move right,
I need y'all to slowly pan.
Then when they move left,
I need y'all to slowly pan.
Okay, so just do me a favor.
When y'all shooting these crazy cops
and these Karens and all these folk acting a fool,
please shoot horizontal so we can,
that way it fills the whole screen
as opposed to shooting vertical and we've got
to black bars on the side that just appears say right there so
I'm that's just like a little pit people mind that pit people
mind just like folk who use DJ out the road microphones with a
big ass fur ball sitting on. Yeah, yeah precisely OK for all y'all out
there who don't understand television that thing is that
is calling wind screen that little furry thing is called a
wind screen that thing is designed to reduce the wind
that's actually when you're outside.
And so you're not getting.
Now, it's a wind screen.
So you sit in your ass indoors, OK, where there's no breeze
where you are.
Take the little furry, Chia Pitt looking ass item off.
And then also.
She is minding her business.
And then lastly, and lastly, you can clip the microphone on.
It is designed to clip onto your shirt.
What's the point of those cute nails?
And some of them actually have a magnet on the back
where you can slide it under your clothes
and then attach it to it.
So if you don't want the microphone in the shot,
you can lower the microphone.
So I'm just saying, I'm just saying.
I know what the lavalier is.
I'm just saying.
I'm just saying.
No, but you sitting here looking all,
you sitting here looking all, yeah, yeah,
I'm on the show and yeah,
I'm talking right into the furry damn microphone.
I'm just saying, Lord have.
Did you hear, but did you hear,
I thought those seven words on here,
what's the point of having cute nails?
I think that was the determinant.
Ain't nobody watching your ass for no damn cute nails, okay?
And if you, and it's okay.
So, okay, so let me go ahead and teach you Nola if you're gonna do television
Okay, give me on camera three. Give me on camera three. So
Give me on camera three. So see no, let me explain something to you. See you won't quite understand
So you see the screen right here. You got the lower thirds right here. You got the graphic down hit the bottle
I don't know why first of all, I don't know why we got a democracy at risk lower 3rd talking about
the grandma video kit can y'all wake the hell up in the
control room, please please pay attention. So let me help you
out know when you're on television because you talk into
a Hall of Famer OK, I'm only in 5 halls of fame so no those of
us when we wear suits and cufflinks if we want to show our cufflinks this what we do
we talk we sit talking so that extend our arms so you know the
arms come out that way all of a sudden can see the. I know I
ain't done with a done listen.
So then I'm talking you don't sit here and talk with your
hands down and what you say is well you to understand that one of the things that
you can see, you see how the hands, you see how the nails can be shown.
You see how the ring can be shown.
And then you can, and then you can, and then you do one of these moves like this.
Then you do another move, you say, and one more thing, boom, finger goes up,
nails being shown.
So you can do all of that without showing that furry ass microphone,
if you wanna show your little nail job.
All those little masculine moves that you just did.
No, I'm just showing you, I'm showing you,
I'm showing you, I'm instructing you on how to do that
on television, where it's not obvious,
and you're not sitting there going,
I've got a big ass windscreen, I'm talking right into it.
Thank you for your attention.
Matter of fact, I thank the black people in St. Louis
who gave me this fan.
See, this is probably why you need a furry ass microphone
if you got a personal fan.
She come prepared, honey, I have fan and microphone.
No, no, that ain't doing nothing.
So I'm just simply saying.
Lord have mercy.
I gotta teach people how to use the damn television.
We got all them damn degrees
and we can't read a manual to understand
we talking in a windscreen.
See what happens?
You can have a PhD, an ED, an MBA, a JHD,
a degree.
You can have every damn degree.
You can have all them letters behind your name
and you can't read a manual on how to use a microphone.
Okay y'all, I'm done.
Greg, thank you very much for being here.
Recy, thank you for keeping Cussing to a minimum.
Wait, I said MF just one time.
So we appreciate.
I did have one more thing to add. I did have one more thing to add.
Alright, go ahead, C. Go ahead.
So I just have to add, because we kind of sped past the Congresswoman Lamonica McIver
point, I would be remiss if I didn't point out that this administration has been attacking
elected leaders. However, when it comes to the men, when you think about Mayor Ross
Barack, when you think about Congresswoman Brad Lander, and even when you think about Senator
Alex Padilla, they haven't been charged or if they have been charged, the charges have been dropped.
But when it comes to women, when you think about the Judge Hannah Duggan in Wisconsin and
Congresswoman LaMonica McIver, they are going full speed ahead with charging these women.
And it goes back to what I've been saying for years, that we already don't have citizenship
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And so what we're seeing is an attack,
not just on the citizenship of women,
but of the leadership of women.
They want to make sure that women are subjugated in this country,
whether that's a woman in an elected position
or a woman in a judicial position.
So I'm telling all the women in this country,
you better wake the fuck up,
because they are not even nearly done yet.
And they are not backing down from their war on women.
You're done cussing.
Thank you, Reese.
You're done cussing.
I'm done.
That was only one cuss word.
Okay, all right.
Thank you very much.
I thought we had gotten through with just one MF
and one F, but we added another one to it.
So, all right.
Thank you very much, Greg Carr.
Appreciate it.
Thanks for sitting in for me on Tuesday
when I was in Syracuse.
I saw some of y'all left petty ass comments in the section
complaining about the audio.
That wasn't me, we had the line hooked up
from the audio dudes and so I can't be running the camera
standing at the damn podium, but it's all good
because see what happens is when you think in advance,
you do that, so I recorded my audio on my DJI microphone
in my damn pocket Nola I
wasn't holding it with a furry at a lab lit attach so we're going to we got
clean audio there so we're gonna drop that on top of the video and then
restream the speech so y'all can actually hear it and so we appreciate
that and so that's how you go to properly use DJI wireless microphones.
Thank you Mr. Mann.
Yes, thank you very much.
So Greg, thanks for sitting in for me.
I still appreciate it.
Matter of fact, hold up.
I was in St. Louis.
Which phone did I shoot this on?
I was in St. Louis last week.
Let me go ahead and find this.
Black people, you know, black people are the kings and queens of shout out.
I thought I sent this to Greg. And it's black people, you know, black people are the king and queens of shout out.
I thought I sent this to Greg.
Hold on one second, y'all.
Let me go ahead and do this before we go.
But then we really gonna get out of here.
Let me do this right here.
So black people love saying,
hey, can you tell so and so I said hello?
And they always, I'm like, y'all listen, I can't sit here.
So I just, it happens all the time.
So I utilize technology, NOLA,
in order to properly do those things.
And so I was in St. Louis, hold on one second.
Let me go ahead and first of all,
let me flip this, crop it properly.
Here we go.
Okay, all right.
So, no, that was a sister.
She wanted to say something to Dion Cole.
I think I said to him,
see, y'all don't understand what my life is like.
You know, I go places and black people
got all kinds of stuff to say.
Someone-
Well they say the same thing.
Tell Roland I said what up?
I know, no, no, no, no.
They wanna know.
Now be sure to tell them so.
I just go-
Why Roland treats you like that?
That's what I hear.
They know exactly why.
And why, when you see them now,
they gonna be like, no, look,
put that furry ass thing down.
What's wrong with you?
Are they gonna say, girl, your nose is so cute and Roma's such a bully, girl.
You look cute, girl.
You look cute.
That's what they always tell me.
Nobody gonna say that.
That's what they always tell me.
Nobody.
So I'm looking, somebody- We don't find this video.
No, I didn't.
And I thought I sent it to Greg because this woman was-
Yeah, no, I don't see.
I didn't see it to Greg because this woman was... Yeah, no, I don't see it.
I didn't see it, bro.
This woman was insistent on me telling,
hold up, was it on this phone over here?
She was insistent on me.
No.
Will you please, please, I'll go Greg Hart.
Oh, my Lord.
Oh, no, don't do it, don't do it.
Oh, Lord, Greg Hart is my favorite.
You please, you tell Greg.
Matter of fact, I found him, see?
Y'all think I'm lying, y'all think,
here we go, hold on,
let me drop this sucker right now
on my iPad that's connected, so,
cause she-
If one of us took this long
he would be talking so much-
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey,
sure would.
Hey, when you get your own show
you can do what you wanna do.
Oh shit, that's what he said.
This was, hold up, That is true. This was in st. Louis. This was in st. Louis. I promised this sister
I'm gonna do this video. So here y'all go. She wanted it. She wanted Greg to know she watch him. All right, here we go
Hi, Greg. She got something to tell you. Everyone can have their seat. We're gonna start our program again in two minutes. I love you, love you, love you.
All right, Brad, how's that?
She's gonna ask the, I love you, love you, love you.
That's sweet.
She said, that can be my auntie, my Aunt Kara C.
That's all, where were you there, man?
I was in St. Louis last, where the hell was I?
Yeah, I've been on the road crazy.
I was in St. Louis last Friday?
Was I in St. Louis last Friday?
Where the hell was I?
I was in Columbus, Memphis.
Yo, I think I was in St. Louis last week.
So yeah, I was in St. Louis.
Everybody, it's like Recy said and like Nola said,
we can't go nowhere without everybody saying,
roll it, roll it, roll it, roll it, everywhere.
In the last three weeks, I see Birmingham, Dayton,
Nashville, Atlanta, New York, Philly,
those places, I ain't been nowhere.
And I know I can speak for both of y'all.
But you know what, it's so funny,
it was Denzel Washington talking to somebody,
and maybe it was Steve Harvey, Denzel,
why there was comparison.
And Denzel said, you know, I'm in a movie,
so people pay to see me once every two or three years
on a big 40 foot screen, and they don't think they know me.
But you, you on TV every day,
so people walk up to you like you're their friend.
That's the difference between a movie.
You for real, on the road.
Well, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm.
Exactly, I got no.
I know we have this on video,
cause we told the story,
but I ain't got time to look for y'all.
This is a true,
is this, we about to go on after this,
but this is a hundred percent true.
This is no lie.
I'm flying to the Jeffrey Osborne Golf Tournament.
We on the plane,
Seth entertainers on the plane,
Henry, who works here, Henry is sitting in first class.
I don't know how he got in first class.
So we all sit, come on now, you gotta be petty.
So we all, so we land, we land, and we're waiting
on our bags, and the sister walk up, she's like,
oh my God, oh my God, she's like, oh my God, oh my God, Roland Martin, oh my God.
Then she turns and she looks at Sid, she went,
you look familiar, then she went, okay, whatever.
And so she goes back, y'all, I'm not lying,
she goes back, she goes back.
And she's like, oh my God, she's like,
do you have people who were supposed to be aborted?
And then the mama's there, she starts telling me this story about her mama was going through an abortion, then she changed her mind, and that have people who was supposed to be aborted? And then the mama's there.
She starts telling me this story about her mama was
going to be divorced and then she changed her mind.
As she was born, I was like, well, I've actually had
the people on the show who are pro-life.
She's like, well, I think I would love to come
on and talk about it.
Then she goes, here, here, take this picture.
And she lit turns and said, said it was like, like,
what the hell?
I was like, no, no, baby, give me the phone.
I said, give me the phone, give me the phone,
give me the phone. That's right. So I do a selfie. They see me every day. And she walks I was like, no, no, baby, give me the phone, I said, give me the phone, give me the phone, give me the phone. That's right.
So I do a selfie.
They see me every day.
And she walks away and said,
goes, well damn, I guess the disguise I got on works.
And it was.
More than that.
And what he said was, he said,
he said, when you on television every day,
people, they act like, like they friends,
he said, because, he said, that's how it was when he hosted BET Comic View.
And I'll have people see me, they'll be like,
hey, Uncle Rorro, hey, Rorro.
They'll be like, hold up, I don't know y'all.
I'll say, y'all, this all good.
Ain't no thing.
You can just speak for so, so that happens.
And so I always appreciate talking to people,
seeing people, it does crack me up
when grown dudes be like, yo, what up, Uncle Rorro?
And on that point, some of y'all black people,
some of y'all celebrities, get over your egotistical asses.
If people call your ass Auntie or Unc,
it's a term of endearment.
They ain't disrespecting you.
They not trashing you.
It's a term of endearment.
And for some, like, I had some fool,
yeah, I'm about to sit here,
gonna maybe call your name, because you know I would. You're going to send me an email. It's disrespectful
for you to call Congresswoman Maxine Waters, Auntie Maxine. I said, man, shut the hell up.
I said, first of all, she ain't got no problem calling that. You know, but it just gets on
my nerves
when people just get tripped like that, because we have-
What you looking for now?
Huh?
What you looking for now?
You looking for something?
No, no, no, homeboy sent me an email,
and I was like, man, go to hell.
Well, it's just- You don't put it on the ass.
You know why I say your name.
You send me an email, your ass might be public.
But I just want people to understand,
it ain't nothing wrong with that.
It's all good.
All right, y'all, we got to go.
All right, that's it.
Greg, Recy, Nola, I appreciate it.
Thank you so very much.
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