#RolandMartinUnfiltered - Jasmine Crockett Issues DIRE WARNING: America 'Soon You Will Understand'; RIPS View Host's MAGA Talk

Episode Date: February 23, 2025

Texas Congresswoman Jasmine Crocket continues to blast the Trump Administration.  While on The View, rep. Crockett shut down Trump's former aide, Alyssa Farah Griffin, who confronted her with his approval ratings. On Tuesday, Crockett was on MSNBC and explained to host Ali Velshi why the midterms are so important to keep the tech billionaire from getting richer off the American people. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is an iHeart Podcast. Texas Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett continues to blast Donald Trump and his co-president Elon Musk. Today, she was on The View and shut down former Donald Trump aide Alyssa Farah Griffin, who confronted her with Donald's approval ratings. For all of the criticisms that exist of Donald Trump, he right now has a 53% approval rating. It's higher than it's ever been. 70% believe that he's fulfilling his promises. And 45% All of the criticisms that exist of Donald Trump, he right now has a 53 percent approval rating. It's higher than it's ever been. Seventy percent believe that he's fulfilling his promises and 45 percent believe Democrats

should be more moderate. Do you what do you take away? I think there's a lot to make of those numbers. What's your takeaway from that? My takeaway is just like the election. We've got to do better at education. People don't understand. But you will understand when those hospitals in rural America start closing

down even more. You will understand when you don't have your Social Security. You will understand when your Medicaid, your Medicare goes away. You will understand as planes continue to fall out of the sky. Soon you will understand why it's important to maybe have somebody that isn't loud

and ridiculous and maybe Sleepy Joe is what we wanted because we could at least sleep at night yeah on tuesday she was on msnbc and explained to ali velchi while the midterms are critically important to uh keep elon musk from getting richer and raping and pillaging the american people a lot of people are talking about know what, we just are looking forward to the midterms. We only need three more seats. I'm sure everybody's tired of getting emails, text messages, phone calls, trying to raise money. But the reality is that we have an opportunity right now.

I know that a lot of people look at these seats that are available, which there's going to be a total of three, and they say these are deep red seats. But here's the thing. We saw that in the state of Iowa, they swung a seat 27 points so that a Democrat could win. I say we have nothing to lose. We need to go out. We need to talk to those people that finally understand that the only mission that Donald Trump has is making sure that he can line his pockets, line Elon's pockets, and any other billionaire, all at our expense.

It's not just going to be the people you dislike that are going to miss out on their Medicare, Medicaid, or their Social Security. Or down in the state of Florida, where two of these seats are, they are talking about getting rid of FEMA. It is time to wake up. And it doesn't mean that you're a Democrat if you vote democratically. So this is where I want to get to. Who's the audience to to swing some of these states? Is it progressives who understand that their priorities are being crushed? Or is it is it people who voted Republican to whom you say you didn't vote for this, did you? You didn't vote for

for Elon Musk and a guy named Big Balls to have your documentation. How does that message get out there in a way that that entire audience hears it? I think that you're right. Definitely the entire audience. I just don't know how many progressives exist in Matt Gaetz's former district, right? But I do think that there are farmers in that district, farmers that are concerned because they rely upon monies as it relates to USAID and other monies that are now being dismantled. And it means that you may lose your family farm. It may be bought up by a corporate organization. And so I think just having very real conversations, we've seen people who have talked about, well, we don't want you

firing the people at the VA, or maybe it's somebody that has to fly all the time. And they're concerned because we have a record number of planes literally falling out of the sky because he decided he was going to appoint some guy from Fox to be over transportation. But at the end of the day, there were those that never believed that we could end up with two senators in the state of Georgia. And we did. There were those that never believed we could have a Democrat representing Alabama. And in that special election, we did. So I think if there's any point in time that the people should rise up and figure out where should I focus my attention, it's on these special elections and it's having real conversations on the doors with real people talking about what's really happening and not the lies that

they're putting out there. Zachary, I take you like what you heard there. I love it every time. I'm so thankful to have the Crockett Chronicles. She is speaking absolute truth and she's spitting pure fire. And that is exactly what we need to see from more of our Democratic leaders. But beyond that, we need to see them messaging in a way that is fresh, that is innovative, and that's reaching the people. And that's what Jasmine is doing continuously. That's the level of education that the candidate that we had talked about earlier about we need more education. That is the education that we need to have out there. And those are the kind of people we need continuously on the rapid

response. Jasmine can't do it all. She can't do it by herself and she can't reach every single American voter who needs that messaging. But there are people in Congress who are being underutilized that we just see being put in the forefront. Joy. Let me tell you, I have been saying it every time I talk about her on this show, rinse and repeat. We need that kind of fire from so many Democrats. It doesn't have to be every one of them. People do it differently. But when people see Jasmine Crockett, they know she is fighting for them. And she does so brilliantly, right? She understands the rules. She understands the subject matter, the policy, but she does it in a way that communicates in a normal way to normal

humans in a way that shows passion. That's what we're missing. That's what we're looking for. And everyone can appeal to that. And so to me, I just want more of that. I mean, frankly, I don't think the Democratic Party made the right choice in how it's currently set up. It used to be they had sort of two leaders. Right. One that was political and would be out there talking a forward facing person. And the one that was just sort of dealing with the party politics in the background. I think we may need to, you know, bring back that kind of bifurcated. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Whoa, whoa talking about? Whoa, whoa, whoa. Well, look, they do have that. What do you what do you know? They don't have that. They do not have the Democratic Party.

The DNC itself is not is not the same two headed monster it used to be. So what do you what do you mean? OK, explain what do you mean? It was so when I was there, there it was two it was like two chairs right you had someone who was sort of the outward facing public person and then someone who did the work who was that behind the scenes so so what so so to me no no no no no no who was that so at the time it was oh my god i can't remember it was like a boring guy that was inside and then there was a governor who was out, who was the external person. I believe it was the governor who was the external white guy.

My point is one person was a communicator and one person was behind the scenes. Okay. Okay. Here's what I don't understand. Here's what I understand. Here's what I'm confused. You just had the election and elected a chair. They got multiple, they got multiple vice chairs.

So. Yeah. and elected a chair. They got multiple vice chairs. So you got my- Yeah, those vice chairs are not the people that are going to be the public-facing voice of the Democratic Party. Why not? Okay, so let me hold on. She is an elected official. She is someone who knows how to communicate.

She is someone who brings her own press. She is someone who understands how to communicate to the American people we need that it's not a knock on everyone everyone has a different skill okay so hold on hold on so this is what I'm looking at right here Kim Martin is the chair Raina Walters

Morgan is the vice chair for civic engagement no no wait wait wait wait Raina is vice chair for civic engagement and voter participation Malcolm Kenyatta vice chair hell of a communicator Art Raina is vice chair for civic engagement and voter participation. Malcolm Kenyatta, vice chair, hell of a communicator. Artie Blanco, vice chair. David Hogg, vice chair, hell of a communicator. Jason Ray, secretary. Virginia McGregory, treasurer. Chris Kortz, national finance chair. Jane Cleve, ASDC president. You got Chuck Schumer. You got Hakeem Jeffries.

So it's not like you don't have communicators there. And so I don't it's not. And again again, that's, that's, that's. Like Edmund Crockett, like A.O. No, no, no, but she's not. No, no, but, no, no, but Joy, Joy, Joy, they're members of Congress. They're not DNC. Yeah, we need, listen, nobody, the American people don't know who those people are. I'm sorry on this one.

Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. No, I'm confused. I'm confused. Okay, okay. No, I'm confused. I'm confused. Okay, okay. No, I know. Malcolm Kenyatta does a ton of media. He's an elected official in Pennsylvania. Mm-hmm.

So I'm trying to understand. I'm just talking with on the view. No, I understand. Okay, okay, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. You just said the DNC. No, no, no. I'm saying, I on, hold on. You just said the DNC, no, no, no. I'm repeating your words. You said the DNC needs to have a public-facing person

and somebody who ran the party. That's the DNC. She's elected. So the reality is, the reality is, the reality is the party, you need folks who do what they do, but you can have people who are communicators who are elected. You can have both.

I always had vice chairs. I'm not asking us to not have vice chairs. What I'm saying is have someone out there who can communicate to the American people, who can get on Morning Joe, who can get on Fox News, who can get on wherever they are needed to go and to be able to communicate with people. So, isn't that Ken Martin? Okay, Ken Martin. Okay. We'll see. No, I'm asking you, isn't that his job as the chair? Yes, that is his job as the chair, but he that is his job as the chair, but he is not going to be able to get the press to be able to be the...

It may not be his skill. Sometimes we need to stop looking for everything and everyone. No, no, okay. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Again, no. But you specifically said the party, the DNC. Crockett is not a DNC leader. She's a member of Congress.

We would do better if she were a DNC leader. We need people like that. Okay, hold on, hold on. Why does she need to be, this is what I don't understand. Why does she need to be a DNC leader when she's a member of Congress? You don't need,

a member of Congress, hold on, when she's a member of Congress? You don't need a member of Congress. Hold up. A member of Congress, that is an actual job. No, no, wait, wait, wait, wait. She has to serve the 700,000 constituents of her district. I'm one of them, okay? My homestead is there. That's her job.

Why can't you have her here and other people over here on the DNC? Why do you need a member in both? Look, when Tim Kaine was a chair, I thought that was idiotic. When Debbie Wasserman

Schultz was a chair, I thought that was wrong. I don't think you can be a member of Congress and be the party leader at the same time because that's two separate jobs. But, but P.S., I didn't say that they would be only one of them. I said two. I've been saying two. I'm saying someone that runs the party on the inside and then the person who's out there speaking. That's the way it used to be. Go back and look it up. So I'm just saying to me, we ought to

have some kind of system where we can draw on people to have different skill sets. The reason I don't understand that... It doesn't have to be Jasmine Crockett. I'm just saying she's the kind of person and the kind of voice that when people are looking to the Democratic

Party and they're saying, I want someone who reminds me of myself, who can speak for me, who can fight for me. They're looking for someone like that. So kudos to her. I love your Jasmine Chronicles. More of it. And we need more. We could have an AOC Chronicles. We could have a couple of different people who are out there speaking to the American people in a way that they can receive it in a way that is distinct and that we understand. And those are not always the people who are leading us and who are sort of the party party movers and shakers. OK, Zachary, go ahead. Takeaway from this is exactly what everyone is saying, but I think it's like the nomenclature, kind of like who it should be. But the bottom line is we have got to have more diverse voices across the party being

platformed. I personally don't believe that legacy media outlets are going to be of any help. They have chosen to not be. They have made a choice at MSNBC and CNN, places that used to be committed to truth and opposing democracy, to go in a different direction. There is nothing that I think Democrats like Malcolm Kenyatta can do to garner more good press, even if his popularity rose to the level of Jasmine's, because they're going on platform, they're going on platform. But it doesn't mean that the Democratic Party can't put those kind of voices out there. We have our jazz, we have our AOCs, but we need to have more people in leadership positions, get out in there to make those rounds on independent press and all throughout the whole entire stratosphere to get the message out. And I think that's kind of what I'm hearing

is that we need more people. One person isn't enough. We need more jazzmen out there being spread around and really, to be honest with you, using platforms like this to get the message out. Like, Bulletin Partner has millions of followers tuned in right now. They need to be here. Here's my thing, political sis. Titles are irrelevant to me. They're irrelevant. At the end of the day, I don't care if you are a labor leader, if you are a member of Congress, if you're a DNC vice chair, or I don't care if you were to pack or whatever, if you have a coherent message that resonate with people, it doesn't matter. The point I'm making is I think you need Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett doing exactly what she does. When she has her five minutes in a

hearing, when she is being called to do national shows, that's great. But here's the other thing that we just got to understand. We understand television. You go book who brings ratings. And the reality is it doesn't matter where they're coming from. If you if Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett wasn't in Congress and she was bringing the heat and she's on the DNC, she don't get booked and a member of Congress is not going to get booked. Hell, there are members of Congress who are bored as hell who I'm not going to book because they're not bringing it. So it doesn't even matter to me. I mean, I've just been straight up. To me, what we're dealing with here is you have to have multiple voices, but you need people who are doing the work. And what I'm saying is the work of the party, whether it's DNC or the GOP, it goes beyond a television appearance. It's actual work. How are you organizing? How are you mobilizing? How are you building up? How are you winning special elections? How are you fundraising? So the jobs to me are totally different.

So names are irrelevant to a lot of people. I know names are relevant to us because we know all these people. But when it comes to boots on the ground, they don't care. They just want to know that everything is going to be okay. Look, if Jasmine Crockett, if you're listening, I just damn, if she's listening, I just truly wish that she was my congresswoman. We need more congresspeople like her. The DNC, I assume that their thing is to get the boots on the ground, to get people motivated out there, um, round people up. That's what I'm assuming that their goal is.

But again, people are not going to recognize the two. They're not. They just want to be able to hear the message. They want to know what's going on and they want to know that somebody's there to represent them and that everything is going to be okay. Hello, I'm Isaac Hayes,, founder and CEO of Fanbase. And right now we're accepting investors in our $17 million round to revolutionize the future of social media. Today, for just $399, you can own 60 shares of stock in Fanbase at $6.65 a share. Go to startengine.com slash

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