Signal Houthi chat released, MAGA targets 'race-based' PhD Project, WI Supreme Court race

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Speaker 1 (00:17):
Hey, folks. Today is Wednesday, March twenty six, twenty twenty five,
coming up on Rolling Mark until streaming live on the
Blackstart Network. Unbelievable day on Capitol Hill as Donald Trump's
intelligence teams were not intelligent, continue to get grilled over
them talking about war plans in a signal chat. Also,

(00:39):
Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic actually released all of the
text messages so people can actually see the conversation and
guess what. Mecca is now trying to defend it by saying, oh,
this was no big deal, what a joke. We're gonna
talk to Congressman how King Jeffery, the Democratic Minority Leader,
about this very issue. Also, the attacks on deei is
calls calling caught causing CAT of the universities UH to

(01:03):
end their relationship with the program called the PhD Project.
We're gonna talk to them about that. This is gonna
have a dramatic impact on African Americans who get their PhDs.
Also on today's show, have lots to talk about that.
Isaac Hayes, the third, the founder of fan Base. We're
when we're talking about all of these different encrypted apps

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and how critically important UH they are and so again,
lots of talk about y'all, it's time to bring the funk.
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Speaker 6 (02:13):
No, he's boven.

Speaker 1 (02:29):
White conservatives have been on a witch hunt targeting DEI
everywhere in government, in academia, in corporate America as well.
And so one of these crazy, deranged folks was talking
about the PhD Project, which is an initiative to help
place African Americans in various PhD programs. They were working

(02:52):
with universities to make this happen. Nothing the farious about it.
Men of the universities thought it was great. Well, once, uh,
these conservatives start complaining about it, and then you take
Donald Trump trying cutting off the funding to cause the
universities over the DEI. That change everything, and many of
these universities begin to drop their partnership with the PhD Project,

(03:16):
joining us right now to discuss this is Alfonso Alexander.
He is the interim president and CEO of the PhD
Project of FONDSOM. Glad to have you on Roland Martin
on Filtered Look. I'm calling it a witch hunt. I'm
calling it exactly what it is. You have these white
conservatives who are attack DEI who and what they want

(03:37):
to do is and I've been saying this here, the
desire is to actually defund Black America. They want to
cut the pathways to education, get rid of from the
vaccine education. They want to target contracts as well. And
we're not talking about how they frame it. These are
extremely smart and brilliant African Americans, and so they want

(03:57):
to create this whole notion that these people are not
there because of merit, and that's totally bs.

Speaker 6 (04:04):
Absolutely.

Speaker 7 (04:05):
First, Rowland, thanks for having me on here and letting
me share and talk about what the PhD Project does.
But more importantly, the people that we have served have
always been really the best and brightest. A PhD Project
recruits individuals who are in business and or excelling in
academic areas and have the aptitude and the quality to

(04:31):
become PhDs. We then bring them in teach them what
it takes to become a PhD, what the process is like,
and then they go out and apply for PhD programs
all across the country. Based on their merit, they are
accepted into these PhD programs, and then we then will
help provide support for them while they're in the program

(04:51):
in terms of mentorship with other partners of the faculty
members that have gone through the process. So when we
say that these are the best and the brightest, these
are some of them talented individuals in this country, and
they prove it by getting accepted into these schools and
then matriculating through the process successfully.

Speaker 1 (05:10):
So, first of all, when did this program One of
the one of the PhD projects start.

Speaker 7 (05:16):
PhD projects started thirty one years ago and has been
doing this work successfully and without any problem up until
literally about about two months ago. That's when all of
the things really started coming out.

Speaker 1 (05:34):
Thirty one years ago. Have you has it only been
African Americans or is it African Americans or other people
of color.

Speaker 7 (05:42):
Other people of color historically and so not just limited
to African Americans.

Speaker 1 (05:49):
How many people have come through the PhD project in
all of these years.

Speaker 7 (05:54):
In all of these years, about sixteen hundred have come
through the process. We have about two hundred and fifty
each year that are at varying stages within their PhD program,
but about sixteen hundred in total have come through the
process project some still active teaching and researching on college campuses.

Speaker 1 (06:16):
So what is the net effect of this? First of all,
how many callity universities have dropped the partnership and have
some remained, Like, so, what is the state of these relationships?

Speaker 7 (06:31):
So the net effect it's evolving, you know. So, but
at this point we've lost about twenty percent of the
universities and it be the just you know, said hey,
we have to completely sever our relationship, and others are saying, hey,
we're severing it for now. If there's a possibility that
we can come back and work with you and again

(06:51):
in the future, then we may do that. So that's
one piece of it. The other piece of it, though,
is what we've had to do. You know, we've had
to evolve and so, uh, we recognize the environment that
we're operating in now, so you know, we had to
take a posture from a strategic standpoint to be sure
that we still to provide opportunities for the people that

(07:13):
we have always served. So we opened up our application
allow other people to uh to participate in the program.

Speaker 6 (07:21):
So we we.

Speaker 1 (07:23):
Use other people. Do you mean do you do you
mean white?

Speaker 8 (07:27):
Uh?

Speaker 7 (07:27):
Anybody who expresses a commitment to helping to expand uh
the pool of talent in corporate America and on academic institutions.

Speaker 1 (07:39):
Has just had a a financial uh, a negative financial
situation for the PhD project.

Speaker 7 (07:49):
We have, you know, and and fortunately for us right now,
this is towards the end of our fiscal years. So
the impact next fiscal year, which starts in the summer
is potentially greater. But we have had about forty forty
five universities to you know, transition in terms of the relationship,

(08:11):
as I mentioned earlier, you know, out of about close
to two hundred and twenty five that we worked with
prior to that.

Speaker 1 (08:19):
So what so what is that financial Well, first of all,
what is that financial hit? And first of all, what
did that do? Did that provide resources to the students?
And so what's that number? So so if you have
to replace that, if you want to service the same
number of students, you got to replace that money. What's

(08:40):
that hit? And then what is your plan to try
to raise that to get through this period of attacks
on these type of programs.

Speaker 9 (08:53):
Sure.

Speaker 7 (08:53):
Sure, So today that hit is somewhere around two hundred
thousand dollars of our of our revenue, we're about a
three million dollar organization, and.

Speaker 6 (09:04):
In terms of our current situation is evolving.

Speaker 7 (09:10):
You know, we're still having conversations with universities that are
having to prove that they can and should stay involved.
So we're still trying to make sure that we maintain
relationships with universities.

Speaker 6 (09:23):
That have not abandoned the program.

Speaker 7 (09:26):
We're trying to protect those faculty members that work at
those universities and are teaching and contributing in terms of
their research of those universities. But to all set that,
we're looking at how we can establish coalitions and collaborations
with other organizations that are like minded. We're looking to
expand our corporate support, and you know that's a challenging

(09:49):
option for us.

Speaker 6 (09:50):
At this point in time as well.

Speaker 7 (09:52):
But we're also having conversations with some foundations and looking
at other revenue generating options that we have by part
with some of our faculty members who do research and
other things, and how we can collaborate with them to
create some revenue generating options because we're in a situation
roll and where it's proven that when you have a

(10:15):
diverse set of faculty members that are presenting in front
of students and involve in research just simply because of
diversity of thought alone that comes to the table, all
students benefit from that.

Speaker 6 (10:29):
People who look.

Speaker 7 (10:30):
Like those faculty members have a benefit of the role
model effect where they see someone doing something positive, they
benefit from that. And so that's what we're trying to do.
We're trying to protect those individuals that are in our process,
that are members of our organization now and figure out
the most strategic ways for us to grow and expand

(10:51):
as we navigate and have to evolve in this current environment.

Speaker 1 (10:55):
So you guys are five oh one to see three? Correct?

Speaker 6 (10:57):
We are five ozho want to see three? Organization?

Speaker 1 (11:00):
All right? So you know, and I would hope So
you said what you said, sixteen hundred somehow people have
come through the PROGRAMM in thirty one years.

Speaker 6 (11:09):
Yes, yes, absolutely, so you know the way.

Speaker 1 (11:12):
I mean again, just doing you know a quick math.
I mean, listen, if a thousand of those folks decide
to give back to your program. And again I'm not
assuming they don't give back, but if a thousand those
people decide to give back at two hundred bucks apiece,
that raises two hundred thousand dollars. You know, this is
one of those moments where where you know, we have

(11:33):
to obviously look inward and challenge others, and so, you know,
keep us a breast because if if y'all, if y'all
create an essence of capital campaign, you know, that's an
opportunity I believe utilizing black, black owned media, black targeted media.
If all of a sudden it says hey, if you

(11:56):
know for a fact, when you read when you get
to a late April or you get to me, and
you're going to say, hey, listen, you know we've got
to have a quarter of a million dollars again. Uh,
you know, the math is a math, you know, and
fifty people given two hundred bucks each, you know, gets
you to your goal. You know. But this is this

(12:16):
is the reality that we're now living in that your
organization of the black organizations are going to have to
deal with. Uh. And this is where where we have
to encourage our folks to say, hey, when you give
it's a tax right off, and the reality is there
folks who need tax right offs, and we got to
be willing to the challenge on that level.

Speaker 6 (12:38):
Absolutely.

Speaker 7 (12:39):
I think we you know, we we had our conference
last week and one of the things coming out of
that conference is we need to unify. We're stronger, we're
better together. We're in a posture where we're doing a reset.
We've come out of that reset. Now we're recharging and
we're trying to go out and win. And the way
we win is working together and using a collective resource.

(13:00):
Is that we have using a collective intellectual horsepower that
we have to figure out the best ways to continue
to touch these students through these faculty members, to provide
great research opportunities so that we all as a as
a society, grow and learn and overcome this adversity that's

(13:20):
been put before us because of some of these decisions
that are being made in the legal environment and the
political environment.

Speaker 1 (13:29):
Will keep us of brand as you as you get
closer to have to figure out what that number is,
let us know how we can be of help being
able to push it out on our social media to
our audience. You know, we do about thirty million views
a month. We got almost five million social media followers.
But he is about the collective action, so fond, we
appreciate it.

Speaker 7 (13:46):
Thanks a lot, all right, thank you, Roland, appreciate you
and all you do for us.

Speaker 1 (13:51):
Thank you very much. I want to bring in my
panel right now, of course. Rebecca Caruther's vice president Fairy
Election Center joining us out of Washington, DC. Texas State
Representative Jelonda Jones joining us as well from Houston. George Cheney,
founder Joy Strategies, out of Washington, d C. The point
that I've made there, Rebecca, is that something that we

(14:11):
have to recognize and understand and except we are living
in a moment where we're going to have to use
our collective power, use our collective resources. Now, I know
somebody who's listening to me. They're sitting there saying, well, man,
you just threw out a thousand people. That's two holes each. Yeah.
But the reality is there are people who are making

(14:32):
certain amounts of money who need tax write offs. And
the reality is if you give away I mean this
is imagine if you say, hey, I got to I'm
gonna make five thousand dollars in charitable contributions a year,
and at two dollars each, that's twenty five separate organizations
you can be funding at two holes each. That's one
of people listening to understand what we're talking about here.

(14:54):
I think part of the problem, Rebecca, is that when
we talk about fundraising and giving, we always we think
in terms of, well, can this rich black person, why
can't they give a million? Know, they give five hundred thousand,
they give one hundred thousand dollars. But again, if you're
an individual and you're looking to make charitable contributions, you
could say right now that if I give away five

(15:16):
thousand dollars a year, and it may not be five grand,
you may say, that's twenty five separate organizations that I
can support with that five thousand dollars with a two
hundred dollars donation each, that it all matters. We have
to be thinking this way because they are attacking and
I keep saying this to black people, they are literally

(15:36):
attacking the black civil rights, economic and educational infrastructure. They
want to de fund Black America. That is the goal
of Christopher Ruffo, of Donald Trump, of MAGA, the GOP
tried to twenty twenty five.

Speaker 10 (15:55):
You know, Roland what's really interesting is that in America,
black Americans typically get the least when it comes to
government contracting, typically get the least when it comes to
government resources, typically get the least when it comes to
even corporate and private money going into our community.

Speaker 3 (16:10):
However, we're still able to thrive.

Speaker 10 (16:12):
So as you're talking about what's happening and what's being
target and black folks being targeted here.

Speaker 8 (16:18):
It's because we keep excelling.

Speaker 10 (16:19):
When you look at the PhD Project, understanding that more
and more Black Americans are enrolling in these postgraduate programs
and we're over indexing because we're brilliant. We've been doing
this with the least amount of resources. So to your point,
there is something that we could do as a collective.
We did it before, We did it before the Civil

(16:41):
Rights Acts passed in the nineteen sixties, and we're gonna.

Speaker 3 (16:44):
Have to return back to that.

Speaker 10 (16:46):
After all, we know that that over a trillion dollars
goes through the Black community when it comes to spending,
and so now it's time for us to start to
spend and invest in ourselves. For many years, many of
us have called for operations for Black Americans in this country.

Speaker 8 (17:02):
At this point.

Speaker 9 (17:03):
We know this current government is not going to deliver.

Speaker 10 (17:05):
On that previous quote unquote frienlier governor's governments haven't delivered
on that. So it's imperative for us to step in
and start to invest in our own communities.

Speaker 1 (17:16):
Absolutely, and it's being much more decisive and clear joy
with the dollars in terms of what we're spending things on.
If we start taking stock and again listen, I don't care.
Listen if you want to do designer purses and shoes,

(17:37):
if you want to do bags, if you want to
do ties, if you want to do athletics shoes, all
those different things along those lines. But it's also being
very cognizant of who is that actually helping, who is
that actually funding, what is it actually going to. I
was having a debate with somebody and they were telling
me they felt that this is about three weeks ago.

(17:57):
They felt that the boycott against Target would be uneffected,
that those things just don't work today, that that we
that we need to have a plan of action for
the suites and not the streets. And I said to
this person, I said, I understand your point, I said,
but here's I think the point that you're losing out on,
I said, and that is for the people who are

(18:20):
organizing the boycotts against Target. What they also are doing
is they are using this in a way to organize
and mobilize. I said, see, you still need and had
to remind me, I said, you still need the streets
organized and mobilize to impact whatever you're trying to do

(18:41):
in the suites. I said, So if you never create
something that the streets can get behind, then you're never
going to organize and mobilize them. On Saturday, I spoke
at the US Student Association conference that Tiffany Lofton was
helping them with at on our show on March fourth,

(19:02):
the State of Our Union, it was about it was
after midnight when Tiffany mentioned what they were doing and
what they were trying to raise their money for, and
I said, we're going to help you. I made a
commitment of twenty thousand of my own money, and then
she hit me back. We raised eighty four thousand that
night for them, and then other groups then gave, then

(19:25):
other groups then gave, and so they raised almost one
hundred and fifty thousand last year. They had five students
at their conference this year they had almost one hundred
and fifty. So the point that I need our people
to understand is the capacity exists in our communities when
we redirect our resources.

Speaker 11 (19:48):
Correct, I'm all providing all the fancy things too, but
what you absolutely have to be doing is redirecting those funds.
So now we know that the energy to we were
spending shopping at Target, Amazon, all of these stores.

Speaker 3 (20:03):
We can pull back.

Speaker 11 (20:04):
That was the first thing we had to prove to
ourselves that we could stop shopping at these places. Now
we know that we can, then we said, okay, well
we're not just only going to stop shopping at places.

Speaker 3 (20:13):
That don't serve us.

Speaker 11 (20:14):
We're actually going to shop at the places who do.
We saw with Costco today we have seven million uptick
in memberships. That's amazing, while Target is seeing a decline.
Now we're at a different stage. Now we see that
we can take the money that we're even spending at
places that love us, and we got to turn them inward.

(20:35):
We have to use black vendors. Rebecca and I know
a little bit about that.

Speaker 3 (20:40):
We're working on our chapter to do that.

Speaker 11 (20:42):
Only back black vendors where we can. We have to
be working on investing in products and services that also
benefit us where we're getting some end and now we
know we need to go to our nonprofit organizations. A
lot of focuses on philanthropy. The greatest amount of philanthropy
is an individual donors, right, so that's me and you, yes,

(21:03):
the wealthy people, but it's actually small dollar donors. We
know this because we know that when it's election season,
many many candidates are mainly looking for small dollar donors
because they can spread themselves out, they can give multiple
times monthly even and it means something overall greater than

(21:24):
the sum of its part. So it is so important
that we do these individual amounts. Pick an organization and
lay on them the money that you spent last year
on the campaign, Shift some of that over and be
able to do that for.

Speaker 3 (21:40):
A nonprofit in your community.

Speaker 11 (21:42):
It really does make a difference on mass and the
feeling of being successful begets more success. So don't worry
about the end, just get started. We are going to
have to take care of ourselves in this season.

Speaker 1 (21:57):
Yeah, and again I think people, I think Jalanda, a
lot of people really just don't think through what is
going on here. And you heard Alfonso say it. So
if they're losing the universities and then the corporate support
is cheapen, then I mean, and I was talking to

(22:21):
somebody was a gala last month, and literally a week
before the event, a financial institution that had agreed to
be a sponsor calls like Young, we're out in many
of those many many of those places. A lot of
the black folks that work there have been laid off.

(22:42):
And so our black nonprofits are losing lots of money
because the black folks are getting kicked out of a
lot of these companies who were in these diversity jobs,
who are in other jobs. And so I need people
to understand that there's an economic attack that that is
happening before our very eyes against black people. And what

(23:05):
we need to do is penalize the people who are
economically attacking us and redirecting our dollars. Or as doctor
King said on April third, nineteen sixty eight, in his
final sermon at Mason Temple, when he said, he said, Jesse,
what do you call it? We must redistribute the pain.
We withdraw and withdraw our dollars.

Speaker 8 (23:26):
Go ahead, and here's what I believe in Boycott. I
know there are people that think Boycots don't work. Boycot's
work because in order to make rich people pay attention,
you have to hit them in the pocketbook. So decide
that we're not going to spend at Target, and we're
going to spend it places that support black people like Costco.
Trust Me, Target paid Attention Right, Costco paid attention. If

(23:48):
there's seven million, if they're making seven million dollars more
than they made before. The problem with black folks is
we don't always look at the longtime impacts with this
PhD project. First of all, if we have black professors,
because you generally need a PhD to be a tenured
professor at a university, that means we're going to have
less people who look like us in academia, and our

(24:10):
perspective is not going to be there. And like you
said Roland at the beginning of this, people are literally
attacking the things that have made black people be able
to overcome the oppression. And when the PhD project is
not sufficiently funded, we have less money to help the
PhD students. PhDs are not cheap folks. PhDs require research.

(24:32):
Research costs money. And then you have people who have
PhDs who can help people walk through and practice what
they need to do in order to be PhDs. So,
and let me tell you something else. With this attack
on DEI, the black folks that wanted to go to
the PWIS that are now not going to get into
the PWIS because there's not a space for us. They're

(24:55):
going to necessarily end up going to HBCUs. Right, the
question is are we preparing our HBCUs to receive all
these new students that they're inevitably going to get. For example,
that's why here I'm trying to get money for Texas
Southern University third Good Marshall School of Law, because when
these black folks that were beneficiarias of DEI used to

(25:18):
get into ut used to get in the University of Houston,
used to get into all these schools, now can't get
in there. Texas Southern has to have the capacity to
receive these students who need an education. And so boycott, boycott, boycott,
And if you remember back to the Montgomery boycott, it
wasn't a day long boycott like we were like Black Friday.

(25:40):
Let's not let's only do black stuff on one day.
Let me tell you something, if you keep money or
boycott white businesses one day they can withstand that. We
need to have sustained boycotts. We need to let people
know if you come for us, we're gonna mess with
your money. And trust them. Believe, I'm gonna say this again.

(26:02):
Trust and believe. If we hit them in the pocketbook
over and over and over again, they will pay attention
for the same reason they have DEEI with athletics, because
it makes them a lot of money. So we need
to We need to go back to our thoughts during segregation,
because at least in segregation, we knew our enemy, and

(26:23):
we knew that if we didn't take care of ourselves,
we weren't going to be taken care of. The problem
is we've gone and got integration and we think we equal,
and we think they're gonna judge us by the content
of our character and not the color of our skin.
Except for if you've been paying attention. Since Donald Trump
has been on the scene, white folks feel free to

(26:43):
discriminate openly and attack us openly. So and let me
tell you, the courts ain't gonna save us because Trump
is stacked. The course, the only people that are gonna
save black people are black people.

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Well, and that's why again I think folks need to
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trying to lock in the power apparatus. And for all
y'all folks who say voting don't matter, understand, voting is
a part of this conversation. It's not the conversation. But

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We're doing an interview with mother father.

Speaker 1 (34:25):
H is a huge election in the state of Wisconsin
on April first. It pits to candidates Susan Crawford against
Brad Shimmel. Susan Crawford is the Democratic candidate. Uh.

Speaker 25 (34:49):
And why is this a huge race? Right now?

Speaker 1 (34:53):
Democrats have a four to three majority on the Supreme Court. Uh.

Speaker 25 (34:59):
And this is all about who is.

Speaker 1 (35:01):
Going to have control when it comes to the ideological
direction of the court. In the last decade or saw,
it has been very much a hard right court. They
have stripped the Democratic governor Tony Evers a lot.

Speaker 25 (35:14):
Of his powers.

Speaker 1 (35:15):
They Republicans in the legislature, because of political jerry mandering,
have been able to do all sorts of things. But
last year Democrats were able to win a critical seat
by eleven points, giving them the fourth free majority. That
change congressional makeup, state makeup, ballot drop boxes, all of that,
and so the black vote in Wisconsin is going to

(35:36):
be extremely critical. Danell Cross Jones us right now. She's
executive director of metcalf Park Community Bridges, Inc. A grass
roots organization dedicated to ensuring the residents have an informed
active voice in the decisions affecting their community. So, Danielle,
exactly what are y'all doing? How are y'all getting people

(35:56):
to understand what's going on this race? This is a
race where Elon Musk has dumped up with a ten
dollars trying to elect Brad Schimmel. So it's real clear
where MAGA stands.

Speaker 26 (36:09):
Yes, what we're doing, what we always do is we
are a grassroot organization.

Speaker 4 (36:14):
We go door to door and it takes time. We
talk to people.

Speaker 26 (36:19):
We start with education because we want people to know
how these races and these positions.

Speaker 4 (36:25):
Affect their everyday life.

Speaker 26 (36:27):
And I think that's what's what's really been missing, is
that people think about this in an abstract and not
that this could possibly affect my community, my family, my children.

Speaker 4 (36:40):
And so that's what we do. We educate folks door
to door.

Speaker 26 (36:44):
We use the people in the neighborhood because they already
have relationships and so the community talks to the community,
and that way we get people.

Speaker 4 (36:54):
Interested in voting.

Speaker 26 (36:56):
And I believe that in Mecap Park the election, we
was able to increase our voting by five percent and
so it's incremental steps. But we've been doing it for
a while. Voting engagement is something that we do every day,
not just at election time.

Speaker 1 (37:14):
So what are you actually saying to the voters. What
do you saying to them to get them focused on
turning out in this huge race, because look, it's especial election.
Oftentimes you don't see a huge turnout in such races,
and so turnout is even more critical, and a big
black turnout could be the difference between winning and losing.

Speaker 26 (37:37):
Well, because we nonpartisan, we don't tell people the specifics.

Speaker 4 (37:41):
What we do is give them the information.

Speaker 26 (37:44):
We help them to learn how to google these folks
and to figure out if the things that they have
been a part of in the past is something that
benefits them personally benefits the community. But our main push
is that because we're doing work in so many different areas,
we have a lead crisis, we have a housing crisis.

(38:06):
What we tell our folks is that it is important
that our community has political power, that our elected officials
know that they will vote them in and vote them
out according to how they respond to the concerns of
the community. And so what we're trying to do is
get the voter turnout. We don't encourage people to go

(38:27):
one way or the other. But what we do have
a primarily black community eighty nine percent, and we have
a growing monk at Latino population.

Speaker 4 (38:38):
So our community is black and brown.

Speaker 1 (38:40):
Do you tell them who supports one canon who supports
the other? Again, MAGA is dumping lots of money in
the Brad Shimo race. Progressives are dumping money in Sarah Crawford.
Some eighty one dollars has already been spent solely in
this Wisconsin race in the act according to go to

(39:01):
my iPad Anthony. According to the Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce Organization,
this in dropped. The poll this is the March twelfth
shows that it is a forty seven forty seven tie
between former Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimmel and Judge Susan Crawford.
So absolutely every vote is going to matter in this race.

Speaker 26 (39:22):
We don't our organization don't tell people what is at stake,
but we do partner with other organizations that have.

Speaker 4 (39:30):
The ability to do that.

Speaker 26 (39:32):
We partner with five and one c fours in the
community because they have the ability, the legal ability to
make those things clear.

Speaker 4 (39:40):
Our primary job is to get people to the table.

Speaker 26 (39:44):
So that they can be informed and make their decisions themselves.

Speaker 1 (39:49):
All right, then well donell keep the good work, keep
the work up. Listen, y'all got just a few more
days before April first. Again, it is a really really
important race. You can't say it. I can say it
if y'all are in Wisconsin, Susan Crawford, because when you
talk about civil rights, voting rights, when you talk about

(40:11):
things along those lines, there's a huge difference between a
Supreme Court Justice Crawford then a Supreme Court Justice Shivel.
And again that's me talking, not you, Jane, but we
appreciate it.

Speaker 4 (40:21):
Thanks a lot, Thank you so much for having me Roland.

Speaker 1 (40:25):
All right, y'all keep up to good work. Thanks a lot.
And look, this is hugely, hugely, hugely important, Jeelana. Too
many people don't pay attention to state Supreme Court races.
But if we talk about what happens on the federal
level with the Noned States Supreme Court, that's what the
state Supreme Court does. You're there in Texas. Part of

(40:47):
the problem in Texas is you've got a rabbit right
wing maga Supreme Court. And if people in Texas would
actually vote, they could get voted out when Betto ran
against Greg Abbott for governor, seventy five percent of young
people thirty and under did not vote in the election.
Texas has more registered eligible African American voters in any

(41:09):
state in the country, and black folks in Texas should
be voting. I always say at that seventy percent level.
And again, if black folks in Wisconsin turn out. Last year,
the Democratic candidate in Wisconsin won that seat by eleven points,
it can happen again.

Speaker 25 (41:29):
And holding this seat is a huge, huge deal.

Speaker 8 (41:34):
So as she was speaking about Roland, she says, she
tells people what's at stake. So let me tell people
from Wisconsin what's the state. First of all, there's a
liberal majority right now, slim four to three, as you said,
the person that's retiring as a Democrat. So the Republicans
literally have the opportunity to take that court back, which

(41:58):
is why Elon Musk and his super packs have contributed
seventeen point five million dollars to a race, because they
know that's where the power is. Sorrows has given one million.
So clearly the Republicans have a heart on for this seat.
But let me tell you what's the stake. Labor rights.
You want a fair work day's pay for fair day's work,

(42:21):
and you want someone who supports unions, you better support Crawford. Now,
if you're rich, you might not need to get a
fair day's paid for a fair day's work. But if
you're not, you need fair labor laws. If you believe
in a woman's right to control her body and her family,
then you better pick Crawford and not this person, that
Elon Musk. And we don't need to guess what Elon

(42:43):
Musk does when he's in power. All we have to
do is look how he's running this country right now
because Donald Trump literally listens to that man. You want
to know what else is is super super important. Redistricting
is coming up. The Republicans have jerrymanner in every state
where they've had control and made it where we do

(43:04):
not have equal representation based on our vote. They marginalize
and they dilute our vote. So that's what matters when
the Supreme Court is one way or the other. So
when you file your little lawsuit in your local court
and it gets appealed up to the courts like the
Supreme Court, like the courts of appeals, you have a

(43:24):
whole bunch of Republicans who are going to rule against
you all the time. So if you get inter rect
yo and somebody injures you, the Republicans don't want for
you to get the value of your injuries. If the
police kill you, the Republicans are going to always rule
against you. So I don't work for a five ZHO
one C three or whatever. Let me tell you We've

(43:45):
bet a vote like our lives depend on it everywhere,
but especially in Wisconsin because the Supreme Court is as
high as it gets and we need cover. We need
people who are going to fight for our issues and
people issues are dealt better with with Democrats. So that's
what we need to do. And we better get out
and vote because I promise you even people that voted

(44:09):
for Trump and for some reason they thought that they
were in the in crowd, they're finding out they're losing
their jobs. The costant groceries ain't gone down. We are
our public schools are being taken over. Our kids aren't
being educated, and we didn't think it. And if you
think it can't get worse, it can.

Speaker 1 (44:25):
So let me let me walk people through this here, Rebecca,
and here's the whole deal. So Justice incumbent Justice and
Walsh Bradley is retiring races in Wisconsin or nonpartisan, but
Sarah Crawford has been endorsed by the state Democratic Party.
Brad Schimmel is the former Republican Attorney General. As Jelanda said,

(44:49):
Elona Musk and his packs have dumped a ton of
money into this particular race, and as you see, here's
here the twenty twenty five races were determined whether the
Liberals will retain their four to three majority or if
there will be a three to three split because Justice
Brian Haigdorn is a conservative leaning swing vote in sixty

(45:11):
one cases, hay Door was in the majority of fifty
of those cases, more than any other justice. He voted
with Liberals and conservatives twenty four times each. But the
key here is controlling the court, not hoping and waiting
to see how one person votes. We know for a
fact that ballot drop boxes are going to be critical
in the twenty twenty six mid termy lectures as well

(45:33):
as twenty twenty eight. Republican legislature wants to get rid
of those. Democrats say no, it's a good idea to
expand access to the ballot partising jerry manderin is also
an issue. Racial jerry mandy is an issue restoring the
rights of the governor, of the Secretary of State in
the attorney general all Democrat Republicans stripped them of that right.

(45:56):
Republicans control the legislature because they had been able to
have a lock through hardest in jerry mandering, and so
that's why this Supreme Court race is huge.

Speaker 10 (46:07):
You know, Alanda gave the partisan take of this, I'm
going to give the C three take of this. One
thing that we saw, especially in light of President Trump's
unconstitutional elections and executive order that he issued yesterday, is
that state supreme courts are going to matter more than
ever when it comes to making sure that.

Speaker 8 (46:24):
There's actual voting rights.

Speaker 10 (46:26):
As forty six states to go to the ballot box
this year, one hundred thousand seats are on the line.
Next year, even all fifty states are going have elections,
plus you know, there's more consequential elections. But one thing
that's really interesting, specifically in Wisconsin is that the current

(46:47):
court supports voting rights. If the makeup of this current
court changes, then it's going to be a court that
does not support voting rights in Wisconsin. The other thing
that's important to note about the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Every
year between now and twenty thirty, there is a Supreme
Court justice in Wisconsin that is on the ballot because

(47:07):
the terms because over the next six years, starting this year,
there are six terms that are up because it's a
staggered expiration of justices on the court. So my question,
especially for our community groups in Wisconsin, in Milwaukee, groups
like Block, how do we make sure in communities black

(47:28):
communities in Milwaukee that there's a sustained effort for folks
to really understand the importance of the Supreme Court in
Wisconsin because every single year between now and twenty thirty,
there is going to be a Wisconsin Supreme Court race.

Speaker 3 (47:43):
And that's something that I really.

Speaker 10 (47:44):
Need people in Wisconsin to pay attention to because every
single year between now and twenty thirty, there's going to
be millions of dollars being spent to determine with whether
or not the Supreme Court it's going to support democracy
or not support democracy.

Speaker 11 (47:59):
Joy, I'll just give this cific engagement. Take every little
bit counts. We just talked about that in terms of money.
Do not believe that you have two years to the
next election. Literally, if it's Tuesday, it's an election somewhere.
We're just talking about the election now in Wisconsin.

Speaker 3 (48:14):
It is very important.

Speaker 11 (48:15):
The protests are great, the marchers are great, the boycotts
are great, the buyings are great. We want that, but
you also have to vote every single time.

Speaker 3 (48:25):
That's number one.

Speaker 11 (48:26):
Number two, because this is being so watched at the
national level because so much money from the other side
is being poured in. We'll talk about later the garth
of money from the progressive side. That's a real shame.
But because the Republicans, because the Conservatives are so looking
at this race, if we can get a win here,

(48:47):
it will be reported and it will be amplified.

Speaker 3 (48:51):
And it will beget other wins.

Speaker 11 (48:53):
They make decisions on what they can and can't do
based on how they.

Speaker 3 (48:57):
Do early on.

Speaker 11 (48:58):
So if they can see post Trump's election that we
were able to beat him despite all the money they
put into it in a state supreme court race in Wisconsin,
that will vode well for us and our side in
the future.

Speaker 8 (49:12):
So do it.

Speaker 4 (49:13):
Do it.

Speaker 3 (49:14):
And if you're on this call and you're.

Speaker 11 (49:15):
Not from the state, call your friends and say if
you're in Wisconsin.

Speaker 3 (49:19):
We need you to vote in this race, and if
you can give, we need you to do that too.

Speaker 1 (49:24):
And to emphasize that point, folks, this would happen. This
is what happened in Pennsylvania. Democrats flipped a Pennsylvania state
Senate race that Trump won the district by fifteen points
and it was won by East Petersburg mayor James Malone.

(49:46):
It was especially election and he beat the Republicans there.
So that says a whole lot when you're able to
flip a district that Trump won by fifteen points. Yeah,
that's a sign when you win elections like this, it
shows you whether the voters are and what he campaigned on.
He didn't run away from anything he campaigned on. Attacking Trump.

(50:07):
Elon Musk Indulge Democrats had better wake up and pay
attention and got to go to the break. We come back.
We're gonna talk about that colliswoman, Jasmine Crockett. Boy, the
right keeps calling her ghetto and trashing her because she's
been giving them hell. Now they're trying to go after
her because she says something criticized Texas Governor Greg Abbott. Well,

(50:27):
guess what she didn't mind them. She went to the
halls of Congress and did her job. And wait till
we show you what happened in a hearing today on
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(50:48):
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Next on the Black Table with me Greg Carr succession.
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Since long before and long.

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You're watching Roland Martin.

Speaker 1 (53:53):
Oh, the right wing really upset because congress woman and
Jazzbin and Crockett, the're on a speech of the Human
Rights Watch ripped Texas Governor Greg Abbot. She made a
comment that they claimed was being insensitive because he is
in a wheelchair. And so what has results is that
you got some Republicans who are demanding that she be

(54:15):
censured for her comments. Okay, quite interesting, then, of course
what you have is and they've been doing this really
since she got to Congress. Many of them don't like
what she has to say. They don't like the style
that she has to say. So they've decided that, you
know what, we're gonna call Jasmine Crockett. We're gonna call

(54:37):
her ghetto. They use all kind of other racist language
to describe her. They are angry and upset. They don't
like her vernacular. They criticize her about her eyelashes. All
they do isack attack attacks. So I'm gonna show so

(54:58):
this is why they are of said, and I'm gonna
show you again some of the racist language so you
can understand what it is these folks are all about.

Speaker 25 (55:09):
So listen to this.

Speaker 27 (55:12):
We in these hot ass Texas streets, Honey, y'all know
we got governor hot wheels down there.

Speaker 2 (55:20):
Come on now, and the only thing.

Speaker 27 (55:25):
Hot about him is that he is a hot ass
mesk honey. So yes, yes, yes, yes.

Speaker 1 (55:34):
Oh, oh my god. The right has been losing their minds,
just angry and upset with her because what she had
to say. Here's a couple of tweets. So here's Matt Walsh.
Now we all know Matt Walsh is an absolute asshole racist.
I mean, it's that's not even up for debate at all.

(55:56):
He is real quick to show his racist ways. And
so this right here is his statement. Now I keep
telling y'all, and they've been doing this, Go ahead and
leave it up that they've been attacking her. They have
been making these comments ever since she got to Oh

(56:17):
she's ghetto, she's ghetto, She's ghetto. That's what they use.
Now when they use ghetto, they're being very racist.

Speaker 25 (56:26):
Matt Walsh.

Speaker 1 (56:27):
It's not remarkable that a trashy, ghetto dim with like
Jasmine Crockett would make fun of disabled people. Blah blah
blah blah blah. Okay, so anytime you hear white racists
call somebody black ghetto, we know exactly what it is
that they're doing. Then you've got a conservative Dana Lash. Now,
first of all, shain't even from Texas. She's now in Texas.

(56:51):
So she's from Saint Louis, so she goes except she's
not ghetto though I grew up in Saint Louis. She
went to the most exclusive and expensive private school in
the area, if not the state MICDS. She was born
into privilege, educated in privilege, and grew as an adult
into privilege. Her attitude is coaseplay. So that's that's what

(57:14):
they say. So I guess for them, if you're black
and you've gone to a private school, and you've attended
college and you've got your law degree, then this is
how you should always talk. You should always have a

(57:36):
clear command of the King's English in order to show
you who they are. So these white people are far
more comfortable with.

Speaker 25 (57:46):
How you talk.

Speaker 1 (57:48):
See what these racist white folks like poor Matt Walsh
and Dana Lash don't seem to understand.

Speaker 25 (57:56):
Is black people. We're bilingual. Black people were trilingual.

Speaker 1 (58:04):
We have the ability to speak in multiple ways in
multiple settings at any given time. And we guess what,
give zero fucks what y'all think.

Speaker 25 (58:18):
We really don't care.

Speaker 1 (58:20):
And so the reality is anybody watching Jasmine Crockett, Nobody
is sitting here going, oh my god, I am offended
that she said out here in these streets. Well, guess
what Black people who go to private schools use such phrases. Oh,

(58:42):
I'm sorry, your delicate sensibilities would call that ebonics. No,
because you know what, y'all white ass hip hop listening
kids say the same thing. You know why, because y'all
desperately want to be black. You sit your asses in
the sun all god damned day and night, trying to

(59:02):
be as crisp as you possibly can.

Speaker 25 (59:05):
You listen to our music.

Speaker 1 (59:06):
You salute the sports stars that we have as well.
You wish your ass to be rich like Oprah. You
wish you could see here in ball like Lebron. You
would love to be Russell Williams married to Sierra. And
you guess what, y'all love our clothes, our styles, and
every damn thing else. But now y'all upset because a

(59:27):
private school educated black woman, y'all like she's come from privilege.

Speaker 25 (59:33):
She shouldn't be talking like that.

Speaker 1 (59:35):
I don't understand how y'all have the audacity and the
unmittigated gall to sit here and criticize Jasmin Crockett by using.

Speaker 28 (59:47):
Your Oh, by God of our God, she is trash. Oh,
my god, she's this, y'all criticize her eyelashes, and then
y'all salute bleach blonde, bad built, butcher body ignorant as

(01:00:08):
Mardrie Taylor Green. Listen what this dumb ass actually said
today to a UK reporter.

Speaker 1 (01:00:16):
Matt Walsh.

Speaker 25 (01:00:17):
If you want to call somebody trash, here is exhibit A.

Speaker 29 (01:00:23):
Yep, anybody else?

Speaker 2 (01:00:25):
What country are you?

Speaker 8 (01:00:26):
Wait?

Speaker 25 (01:00:26):
What country are you from?

Speaker 29 (01:00:28):
Okay, we don't give a crap about your opinion and
you're reporting. Why don't you go back to your country?
We have a major migrant problem.

Speaker 3 (01:00:35):
And no, no, no, no, no.

Speaker 29 (01:00:36):
You should care about your own borders.

Speaker 1 (01:00:37):
No, no, let me tell you something.

Speaker 29 (01:00:40):
Do you care about people from your country?

Speaker 25 (01:00:42):
What about all the women that are raped?

Speaker 12 (01:00:46):
No?

Speaker 25 (01:00:46):
Do you care?

Speaker 3 (01:00:46):
Okay, you're done.

Speaker 30 (01:00:49):
You know what.

Speaker 25 (01:00:50):
I don't care.

Speaker 2 (01:00:50):
I don't remember flighting for your.

Speaker 3 (01:00:52):
I don't care about your fake news. Do you have
a relevant question?

Speaker 29 (01:00:56):
Yeah, this is an American journalist.

Speaker 23 (01:00:58):
Thank you hear your answer to what she's asking.

Speaker 29 (01:01:02):
I'm not answering her question because I don't care about
her network. If you would like to ask, I can
answer any.

Speaker 9 (01:01:08):
Concerns whatsoever about the complete disregard of operational security from
the top level of thestraation.

Speaker 29 (01:01:17):
You want to know about complete disregard about operators.

Speaker 1 (01:01:21):
Matt Walsh and Dana Lash. If y'all want to see trash,
this is trash. If y'all want to see trash. But see,
y'all love to sit here and run your mouths, and
you want to sit here and talk about other folks.
And I just want y'all to know, Jesus Pracket don't

(01:01:44):
really give a damn what y'all think. Just wanna let
y'all know that. But but y'all are real good, uh
with the bs. And see, y'all gotta understand. So all
the conservative media, see, they were all yesterday, they were
all yesterday trying to attack comes Foman Jasmine Crockett because
they wanted to get away from Signal Gate. They wanted

(01:02:07):
to get away from what was really going down with
all the lies from these Republicans. So they thought, oh, well,
well let's just sit here, uh, and you know, let's
let's just change the subject, you know.

Speaker 25 (01:02:23):
But but but then you got man, y'all.

Speaker 1 (01:02:25):
Do remember Bobbit, little Bobert, y'all, remember you know that's
that's the one who's in the movie theater. Come on, move,
thank you, y'all. Remember this one here, y'all, y'all remember
right there, you know.

Speaker 25 (01:02:37):
Then she lied about it.

Speaker 1 (01:02:38):
Yeah, that's y'all want to call somebody trash and ghetto.

Speaker 11 (01:02:42):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (01:02:43):
Right there, this food right here, that's that's trash and
ghetto right there all day, every day.

Speaker 10 (01:02:49):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:02:50):
And she might want to be concerned about her little
crazy as kids who got some issue as issues as well.

Speaker 25 (01:02:57):
Then you then you got this full then you got
this fool here.

Speaker 1 (01:03:02):
Not the same Bobert. Now she trying to threaten U
d C. She don't like the fact that democrats uh
with the Golf of America, which is stupid. It's called
the Golf of Mexico U. And so now she's trying
to say, well, we might change chain the District of America.

Speaker 25 (01:03:16):
Listening to this food, I.

Speaker 31 (01:03:20):
Would caution my colleagues on the other side of the
aisle to refrain from making fun of the Gulf of
America because next up, you know, may end up being
the District of America that we're working on. So just
you know, keep keep the jokes at bay, and you know,
maybe we'll just stick with the Gulf of America for now.

Speaker 1 (01:03:36):
No, Wayne's thinking, well, we're gonna call you what you are,
dumb ass food. That's actually what you are, and so
I'm just gonna call it what it is. But I
just want you all to understand the races. They can't
use the N word, well then not really because Trump
and elng will give them approval. So what they want
to do is we can't call you the N word.
We could call you ghetto. See they got all these

(01:03:59):
different youphe missions, euphemisms, and different names what they want
to call you. But since they want to say she's ghetto,
well let's just go ahead and see how she broke
it down today in the Crocket Chronicles. Go ahead, roll
the stinger, the Chronicles stinger. All right, So they've been

(01:04:29):
demanding the congress woman apologize. She like, nah, that ain't happening,
and she lit that ass up today and has some
choice words for Fox News and damn if I had
some tea, I'm here for it.

Speaker 32 (01:04:43):
It should not be surprising that the president is doing
everything possible to make it more difficult for the media
to hold him accountable and for the public to be
informed about his reckless and illegal behavior. Yet here we
are the Republicans have actually organized this goofy hearing to
try to convince the American peaceeople that PBS and NPR
are quote domestic terrorists or domestic threats.

Speaker 2 (01:05:05):
My apologies, not the.

Speaker 32 (01:05:07):
Incompetent, unqualified Secretary of Defense whose texting war plan who's texting.

Speaker 2 (01:05:13):
War plans to journalists?

Speaker 32 (01:05:14):
But it's y'all, PBS and NPR the American people are
supposed to be worried about. You can't make this up.
It's as stupid as it sounds. The American people should
be worried about the President threatening to investigate NBC for
treason for reporting on his felony convictions, or arresting reporters
and stripping networks of their licenses for not saying nice

(01:05:37):
things about him, or not using Gulf of America. The
Republicans witness mister Gonzales went so far as to suggest
that because NPR and PBS reported on the murder of
George Floyd, they quote represent a danger to our physical
health as well as specific health of our body politics,

(01:05:58):
Miss Mayor, do you think re recording on the murder
of George Floyd and highlighting instances of systemic racism is
a domestic threat to America.

Speaker 2 (01:06:08):
Thank you, Congressovan.

Speaker 33 (01:06:09):
I believe it's our responsibility to report on all issues
of interest to the American public.

Speaker 2 (01:06:14):
Thank you so much. Ms Kerger, what about you? I agree.

Speaker 12 (01:06:19):
I think it's important for us to report on the
important news of the day.

Speaker 32 (01:06:23):
So let's talk about the critical role of public media join.
His first term, President Trump's own Department of Homeland Security
highlighted the importance of public broadcasting's role in public safety.
In twenty eighteen, his administration stated quote, PBS and local
public television stations play a crucial role in protecting communities
by delivering essential information to individuals and first responders. These

(01:06:47):
benefits are all made possible by public broadcasting stations unique reach, reliability,
and role across America, and are especially vital in rural
and underserved areas. Madam Chairwoman, I would ask unanimous consent.
I seek unanimous consent to interest into the record.

Speaker 2 (01:07:05):
The twenty eight without objection, so ordered, And.

Speaker 32 (01:07:09):
Madam chair I also seek unanimous consent to enter into
the record the twenty nineteen report title modernizing the Nation's
Public Alert and Warning System from Trump's.

Speaker 2 (01:07:17):
Without Objection, so ordered.

Speaker 32 (01:07:19):
In the report, FEMA encouraged quote the use of public
broadcast capabilities to expand alert warning and communication capabilities to
fill gaps and rule in underserved areas. Mister Olman, what's
a more significant domestic threat? Reporting the murder of George
Floyd or dismantling most of America's emergency communication systems?

Speaker 1 (01:07:39):
Can you please repeat the question for me in Congressman.

Speaker 2 (01:07:42):
Which one is more of a threat?

Speaker 32 (01:07:44):
Reporting the murder of George Floyd or dismantling most of
America's emergency communications systems?

Speaker 1 (01:07:51):
Dismantling the emergency systems?

Speaker 32 (01:07:54):
And isn't it true that in alast Borrow Alaska is
the only sorry And isn't it true that kb RWAM
and Borrow Alaska is the only broadcast service available in
an area of more than ninety thousand square miles?

Speaker 1 (01:08:10):
That is correct.

Speaker 34 (01:08:11):
It's also the North Slope where the majority of all
the oil production that comes from Alaska takes place.

Speaker 2 (01:08:18):
Thank you so much.

Speaker 32 (01:08:19):
And is it true that without these stations broadcast Americans
in rural communities would lack access to life saving information
in public safety alerts?

Speaker 1 (01:08:28):
That is correct.

Speaker 32 (01:08:29):
So, in your opinion, what eliminating funding for stations in
rural America like WNNGH Channel eighteen and the chairwoman's district
hurt Americans.

Speaker 1 (01:08:37):
It would hurt Americans. Yes.

Speaker 32 (01:08:39):
In fact, Georgia Public Broadcasting serves as the official distributor
of evacuation route information during state ordered evacuations, and the
chairwoman is here advocating to strip their funding. Look, the
DOJ agenda isn't about government efficiency. It's about breeding corruption
at the expense of the safety of the American people,
particularly Americans living in rural or remote parts of the country.

(01:08:59):
They don't care about public safety, they don't care about
emergency management, and they don't care about free speech, all
of which are.

Speaker 2 (01:09:06):
Harming American people. In fact, I'm gonna skip.

Speaker 32 (01:09:08):
Off real quick because they have tried to come for you,
miss Mayor, and I just want to clarify you did
not work for NPR when those statements were.

Speaker 3 (01:09:15):
Made, did you.

Speaker 32 (01:09:18):
And to be clear, free speech is not about whatever
it is that y'all want somebody to say. And the
idea that you want to shut down everybody that is
not Fox News is bullshit. We need to stop playing
because that's what y'all are doing in here. You don't
want to hear the opinions, and any of anybody else.
And the Constitution says Congress shall make no law respecting

(01:09:40):
or establishing of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,
or abridging.

Speaker 2 (01:09:46):
The gentlewoman's time has expired.

Speaker 29 (01:09:49):
A general woman's time has expired.

Speaker 25 (01:09:52):
What hell shit handing your business, Jasmine.

Speaker 1 (01:10:00):
I'm so sick and tired of these damn racist joy
and that's what they are. They racist, all of you
gadd out, yeah, gad.

Speaker 25 (01:10:07):
That's all it is.

Speaker 1 (01:10:08):
They want to say the N words so bad. And
guess what, y'all can go to hell with your censure.
Because if you got that fool green, you got that
that that food, and the ogels who loan his who
lied on his campaign finance, reports of a loan he got,
you got, you got the race he got, the racist

(01:10:28):
congressman there from from Arizona, they could all go straight
to hell. And so you're gonna come for Jasmine Crockett,
You coming for all of.

Speaker 11 (01:10:37):
Us, absolutely, And I mean nobody is worried about them
censuring her.

Speaker 3 (01:10:44):
They are completely illegitimate. They are a joke.

Speaker 11 (01:10:48):
And and frankly, if you do that, it's only gonna
mean more people are gonna give to her. It's only
going to increase her popularity. It's only gonna make sure
more people are listening to her and receiving her message.

Speaker 3 (01:11:00):
So do what you will.

Speaker 11 (01:11:01):
This woman is not worried about you calling her names,
in neither of the rest of us.

Speaker 3 (01:11:06):
We are no longer following for.

Speaker 11 (01:11:07):
Your ridiculous, racist, misogynist, misogyn noir arguments.

Speaker 3 (01:11:14):
And by the way, the greatest threat.

Speaker 11 (01:11:17):
To people with disabilities has been and continues to be
now Donald Trump and the policy C advocates for, and
that includes Greg Abbott and the things that he has
done in the state of Texas. They are an existential
threat to people with disabilities.

Speaker 3 (01:11:36):
So keep people with disabilities out of your mouth.

Speaker 11 (01:11:39):
When Donald Trump is eliminating DEI programs, what they forget
to mention is that these are usually deia A stands
for accessibility programs. Donald Trump has actively stood up with
his own mouth and disparaged people with disabilities, including around
the time when we were talking about that playing crash

(01:12:00):
in Washington, DC, suggesting that you can't work if you
are a person with disabilities. These people are ridiculous. No
one is falling for it, and frankly, at this point,
if you are a compliment, they are complimenting you. That
means you're not doing anything, You're doing their bidding. The

(01:12:20):
only safe place, the only moral place to be in
this moment is part of the resistance. And if they
are attacking you, then that is the best sign that
you are right where the Lord means you to be.

Speaker 1 (01:12:31):
And then, of course you always got these loud mouthfolk
who show they ass says, such as Michael Rapperport Julanda
and so he responded to my tweet where he called
her a race hustler, and so this is what he posted.

(01:12:52):
And let's be real clear, Michael Rapport, you not funny,
You're not an interesting comedian. Comedian, no way in hell
I will even go see one of your shows. He goes,
she's a low life for that alone, besides the list
of all of her other race hustling Cohn work. But
that comment puts her in the Michael Rapperport official shit
back list. Michael Rapperport, you ain't even relevant enough to

(01:13:17):
have a list.

Speaker 8 (01:13:20):
But who is Michael Rapperport? And there you go, You've
been in a sports events. They're like, who's he? Well,
that's what I have to say. To him, first of all.
Second of all, I have to say that sometimes you
have to speak non queen's English in order to make
your point. Third of all, they're jealous of her. They're
jealous of the attention she gets. And since their intelligence

(01:13:41):
doesn't afford them a grand vocabulary, then they have to
try to do put downs like they're doing with her.
I can't help it that the woman speaks in soundbites.
I can't help it that the woman connects with people
with our most base fears. I can't help it if
she is not afraid to say what those people are
terrified to say. And I know with older black people

(01:14:04):
who experience Jim Crow and segregation and lynchings, they appreciate
that a black woman is in the halls of Congress
and can talk back to these white folks that were
all pressing us and guess what they say, and keep
on doing it, Jasmine. And you know what, if she
didn't have the ball, they wouldn't be coming for her.

(01:14:24):
Trust and believe that y'all mad. So, first of all,
is she too ghetto or is she too educated? I
don't understand, and why, and why if I have the
ability to or the talent like the qualifications to go
to an elite school now is used against me. And
you're telling me because I go to the best schools

(01:14:46):
and I get an undergraduate degree and I get a
law degree, that I have to disassociate from where I'm from.
I have to lose my blackness. Why that's actually believing
that in order to be smart, you have to be
or you have to do white stuff. And like you said, Roland,
and this is what you left off, how many of

(01:15:08):
these people won't babies with black men because they trying
to be us right? And they buy fake hair. Somebody
got fake hair, but we can't do it. They buy
fake last years, they put on fake lips. And when
you have a person in Congress literally being disrespectful who's

(01:15:29):
representing the United States of America in another country, telling
another country you are not important. I ain't listening to
what you've got to say, then that's craziness. It's embarrassing. Hell,
they should be saying, I'm embarrassed to be an American
with what she's doing. And here's what's important about what

(01:15:50):
Congresswoman Crockett does. She might get you because she is
probably one of the best with comebacks, but she's talking
about policy failures for them. I can't help it. He
says it in a way that people believe it. And
when it's following on death fears something else. She's fighting
for the vulnerable. She was at the eighth dr C,
which is an advocacy group for LGBT people. Trump and

(01:16:12):
Governor Abbott come for gay people, so she fighting for them,
and it's Republican hypocrisy when they stand up, they disrespect
the President Obama, they disrespected Joe Biden, and Jasmine says something.

Speaker 1 (01:16:26):
An a Listen, listen Trump. Trump called every governor names.
He said here, you know, he called uh, He called
Gavin Newsom, uh, scum. He used all kinds of names. Rebecca,
that's who these people are. So they ain't got no
room election, nobody, nobody record.

Speaker 3 (01:16:48):
It's not ghatto. She grew up in Saint Louis with
my cousin body. She's not ghetto at all.

Speaker 10 (01:16:55):
Here's the thing I'd rather be Jasmine Crockett did Chuck Schumer.
I'm someone who's appearing to be feckless when it comes
to protecting the rights of Americans and not properly standing
up as a minority leader or as the.

Speaker 4 (01:17:09):
Opposition leader in the Senate.

Speaker 10 (01:17:12):
I reme rather it be Jasmine Crockett. Did American idol
reject like Marjorie Taylor Green. So, I mean, there's so
many like they say it as if it's not a
badge of honor. All of us of this panel care,
all three of us on this panel. We're attorneys, we're
black women. I'm sure all sorts of our classmates want
to call us ghetto, the N word, and all sorts

(01:17:34):
of other names because we're brilliant and how we show up,
and so is Jasmine Crockett. I think it's great that
she's being an effective voice us cutting through the noise
because we're not seeing enough of that and what should
be the opposition party against this administration.

Speaker 3 (01:17:48):
So good for Jasmine.

Speaker 1 (01:17:49):
Well, there's real simple. We got some most stuff got
to get to. But listen, King Wlonius made it plain.
I post this on Instagram yesterday. Instagram remove the audio.
I don't know why they did it, but I'm just
saying I'm in the mood for this here when it
comes to just describing Marjorie Taylor Green. So y'all keep

(01:18:13):
the panel up, turn the audio up. So I just
simply can't help myself for this King Wallonius hit song
right here that I think is a banger choir. This

(01:18:44):
is by Martin Taylor Green.

Speaker 12 (01:19:00):
It's not.

Speaker 23 (01:19:06):
Said again.

Speaker 1 (01:19:16):
Be in the back.

Speaker 5 (01:19:46):
To the house, lap back, you cross the lab your
big bag, you'll back.

Speaker 23 (01:19:52):
Do take, I'll don't walk, you don't bragin.

Speaker 25 (01:20:25):
I'm just saying, y'all want to keep it up.

Speaker 1 (01:20:27):
It's all good. We can go there if y'all want
to go there.

Speaker 25 (01:20:30):
I'm just saying we'll go there if you want to. No,
we will be petty as hell.

Speaker 1 (01:20:36):
That's why they can't stand dasmind. So it's all good.
So we don't really give damn of what y'all gotta say.
And if y'all want to play that centure game, guess
what we're gonna come up to every single one of
y'all for the racist comments. And so there last Matt Walsh, all,
y'all can holler but her eyelashes, how she's ghetto, but

(01:21:00):
and a word of Deliricent Hall of Nights, you can
kiss our entire black ass. I'll be right back.

Speaker 17 (01:21:15):
Next on the black table with me. Greg Carr succession.
as our country continues to fracture and divide. But did
you know that that idea, essentially a breaking up of
the USA, has been part of the public debate.

Speaker 9 (01:21:32):
Since long before and long after.

Speaker 17 (01:21:35):
The Civil War, right up to today. On our next show,
you'll meet Richard Crichton, the author of this book, who
says breaking up this great experiment called America might not
be such a bad thing. That's on the next Black
Table right here on the Black Star Network.

Speaker 9 (01:21:53):
What's up, y'all?

Speaker 1 (01:21:54):
Look, fan base is more than a platform.

Speaker 24 (01:21:56):
It's a movement to when power creators, offering a unique
opportunity for everyday people to invest in black owned tech
infrastructure and help shape the future of social media. Investing
in technology is essential for creating long term growth and
influence individgital age. The black community must not only consume tech,
we must own it.

Speaker 35 (01:22:15):
Discover how equity crowdfunding can serve as a powerful tool
for funding black businesses, allowing entrepreneurs to raise capital directly
through their community through the jobs at.

Speaker 11 (01:22:33):
Essen's act Love King of Barb while you do balg Me,
Sherry Sheeber and you know what you want?

Speaker 1 (01:22:38):
You're watching rowland Mark I'm filming it. I've told you
all the Republicans at Tennessee are just beyond stuck on stupid.
They act to fool all the dawn time. Well, guess what,

(01:22:59):
my man and stay Representative Justin Pearson was.

Speaker 25 (01:23:02):
Not having it.

Speaker 1 (01:23:03):
Tennessee Hauler dropped this video here where they went at
it because this one Republican was criticized in Justin for
not being at the Capitol when he was mourning the
death of his brother who took his own life, and
things got a little heated on the floor. Justin talk
your shit.

Speaker 36 (01:23:25):
We need to do something about the gun violence epidemic,
and now is the time to do it. And I
would continue to advocate for that because I believe in
it personally, from our family's own experience to the experiences
of too many people in our district and in our
community who were suffering from the lack of good laws
and good regulation. You don't have to throw out responsible
gun ownership in behalf of the Second Amendment.

Speaker 34 (01:23:46):
I know every member in this committee's been here this
year working during committee during session, voting on bills this sir,
and I know you may have some things going on,
but you have not so I don't think it's fair
for you to come in front of this committee and
lecture us on hard work convictions.

Speaker 9 (01:24:00):
We've been here working.

Speaker 36 (01:24:02):
Thank you, Chair Farmer for your comments.

Speaker 9 (01:24:04):
They incense me.

Speaker 36 (01:24:05):
They make me very, very angry, not just because of
the lack of regard, but the disrespect and the same
denigrating tone that you use on the State House floor
when the vote to expel me happened. It's disrespectful, it's unbecoming,
and it's beneath the standard of a person who supposed
to represent in the Tennessee House of Representatives.

Speaker 1 (01:24:25):
It is a pathetic excuse.

Speaker 36 (01:24:27):
For you to not answer the question of why we
are doing nothing about the gun violence epidemic than to
personally attack me. My brother, Timprince Darnelle Pearson, one of
the loves of my life, passed away from gun suicide
on December first of twenty twenty four. Shattered my family,
like gun violence has shattered so many families, shattered my
nephew's live, my mother, my father, my other brothers who

(01:24:49):
are remaining. I buried my brother, I planned for his
entire funeral. My fiance made his obituary. I made sure
that he was taking care of even in depth.

Speaker 37 (01:24:58):
That's what I've been doing, but also not just that.
I went to all of my nephew schools. I met
with their principles and their teachers to ensure that they
are okay.

Speaker 8 (01:25:05):
I made sure that they had grief counseling.

Speaker 36 (01:25:07):
And that they're singing psychiatrists. That's what I've been doing.

Speaker 1 (01:25:10):
And while you're talking about hard.

Speaker 37 (01:25:11):
Work, you need to realize that our job is not
just in this state House with these marble floors. Our
jobs are on the streets and in the communities that
we serve. And so while you've been here passing bills
that have been hurting transgender children, while you've been here
passing bills that have been hurting the poor, hurting the marginalized,
hurting the disenfranchised. While you've been here passing bills that
have not ended poverty, while you've.

Speaker 1 (01:25:32):
Been here passing bills that have.

Speaker 37 (01:25:33):
Not enough people who need Medicaid expansion, while you've been
here doing the hard work of making sure that our
state is not from states that it can.

Speaker 21 (01:25:40):
Be because you're designed represented Pearson.

Speaker 33 (01:25:43):
I've been in my community, meeting with seniors, meeting with
young people.

Speaker 37 (01:25:47):
That's what I've been doing hard work doesn't just happen
with this legislation that happens in.

Speaker 21 (01:25:51):
Our community, Representative Pearson.

Speaker 38 (01:25:56):
And it's taking your grief and your pay and your heart,
and it's standing in front.

Speaker 3 (01:26:00):
Of people who you know may not like you, standing
in front of people who you.

Speaker 8 (01:26:04):
Know will disrespect.

Speaker 4 (01:26:05):
Teach a path, better law, better.

Speaker 38 (01:26:08):
Legislation as fish part state where everybody is able to.

Speaker 8 (01:26:11):
Live more freely from the pain of coming by the
ball that men by them. That's what you need to
think about.

Speaker 1 (01:26:17):
You shut up, ladies and gentlemen, Ripson Pierson.

Speaker 34 (01:26:26):
It seems that it's very common in your party when
you disagree with a comment.

Speaker 9 (01:26:30):
And I was not disrespectful to you. I have a family.
I've made sacrifices every year.

Speaker 21 (01:26:38):
I know this is very difficult time for you to
be back up here. I'm sorry for all the things
that you've experienced. You've been a great uncle, You've done
the things that you were supposed to do to help
your family. If I was in the same situation you
were in, I would be doing the same thing.

Speaker 1 (01:26:52):
I understand that.

Speaker 21 (01:26:53):
Okay, I know tensions are high.

Speaker 1 (01:26:54):
Disrespected, Hi, Chairman, we are now.

Speaker 21 (01:26:57):
Voting send House Bill thirteen ninety two on the full Judiciary.

Speaker 1 (01:27:01):
Mister chairman, you have two eyes.

Speaker 9 (01:27:03):
Seven is the.

Speaker 21 (01:27:04):
Nose prevail house spilled thirteen ninety two fails.

Speaker 3 (01:27:07):
No, okay.

Speaker 1 (01:27:38):
Yo, this real simple, Rebecca. We ain't tolerating this nonsense.
You know, like these folks actually think that the black
folks today are the ones who will fall on bended
knee and will keep their head down.

Speaker 25 (01:27:54):
Yes, boss, yes, boss, yes, boss, No, no, no, no.

Speaker 1 (01:27:57):
Hell no, I don't give a damn If you got
that races in the White House, I don't give a
damn you got that apartheid.

Speaker 25 (01:28:03):
Love it elon musk.

Speaker 1 (01:28:04):
No, ain't no way in the hell they think they're
gonna keep disrespecting black folk and we're not gonna respond accordingly.

Speaker 10 (01:28:13):
You know that was really hard to watch, and condolences
to the representative, But here's a warning, y'all better leave
black people alone.

Speaker 3 (01:28:20):
We are sick and tired. Y'are trying to take everything
away from us. They're trying to call us stupid. You're
trying to call this ghetto.

Speaker 10 (01:28:26):
You're saying that you're gonna remove DEEI because we're unqualified.
Y'all better leave us the f alone, because at this point.

Speaker 25 (01:28:33):
Here's the thing.

Speaker 10 (01:28:34):
We built this country, which means we know the inns
and the ouls and exactly how this country operates. Y'all
better leave us alone. Let us just mind our own
business and don't come for us, because they're all gonna
keep pushing and it's going to reach a point where
Black America is like.

Speaker 3 (01:28:49):
Okay, cool.

Speaker 8 (01:28:50):
Since we built this house, we could also unbuild it.

Speaker 3 (01:28:53):
So leave us alone.

Speaker 25 (01:28:55):
Joy, that is correct.

Speaker 3 (01:28:58):
Look, do not let Musk and whoever this other representative was.

Speaker 11 (01:29:03):
In Donald Trump cash with their mouths something that your
butt cannot cash in, cannot pay.

Speaker 3 (01:29:10):
Do not try Black people. We're not gonna try you.
You don't try us.

Speaker 8 (01:29:16):
Leave us alone.

Speaker 3 (01:29:17):
We are not the ones.

Speaker 11 (01:29:19):
And that's for people who you know, you might think, look,
you know, nice and quiet and who aren't gonna give
you your business handed to you, and those who you
think might. Nobody is tolerating it, not the people at
your job, not the people in your neighborhood.

Speaker 3 (01:29:37):
Not the people that you you know, think you can
get things away with.

Speaker 11 (01:29:41):
We're not tolerating it anymore, and we're not being nice
about it.

Speaker 3 (01:29:45):
And we're also letting you know where you stand with us.

Speaker 11 (01:29:49):
So much of this country is about what white people think.
We care about what we think, and we're gonna start
telling you. And I think sometimes we held back in
part for our survival, in part because we were trying
to go along to get along.

Speaker 8 (01:30:03):
But you have shown that that does not work. So
the gloves are off.

Speaker 3 (01:30:07):
So now we're going to start telling you the truth.

Speaker 11 (01:30:08):
And what he did was he married policy with the fury,
the righteous fury that he had with personal experience.

Speaker 1 (01:30:19):
Yep, you cannot beat that.

Speaker 11 (01:30:22):
And that is why that Congress, that that representative looks silly,
why his wife and his children are embarrassed tonight to
know him, because the whole world sees who he is,
Well he ain't, you know what.

Speaker 1 (01:30:36):
And that's one of the reasons right there of Geelanda,
why that Republican chair had the proper tone and respect.

Speaker 8 (01:30:43):
Yeah, so go ahead, and I've got to tell you.

Speaker 9 (01:30:46):
So.

Speaker 8 (01:30:46):
I don't know if you know this, but my condolences
go off to Representative Pearson. My father killed himself. I
was with my dad when he killed himself. Two of
my uncles killed themselves, and we need time to grieve.
And if he's so insensitive to not understand why that
Representative Pearson might be at home with his family during

(01:31:09):
their time of grief. He don't need to be elected
first of all, second of all at this moment and
time and history. And trust me, there's a fork in
the row right now, and we either been a fight
back or we're going to be destroyed. We're going to
be taken back to before Jim Crow that every single
solitary time we see racism and disrespect, we absolutely better

(01:31:35):
pointed out right. And if you come at him disrespectfully
like that. Black people right now need strong leadership. And
what they did back in slavery times is they would
take our strongest black men and they were and they
were drawing quart of them to get every other Negro
in line, every other slave in line. So guess what

(01:31:56):
we cannot allow that to happen. We need to fortify him.
We need to I'll say, we ain't got no place
like that's what they think that we're supposed to be,
except for we are more intelligent. We've tasted some freedom
and we're going to fight for it and we're not
gonna let you just disrespect us. And if you grew
up in the hood like I grew up in the hood.
I'm gonna say that again. If you grew up in

(01:32:17):
the hood like I grew up in the hood, if
you let a bully bully you, they will continue to
bully you. Sometimes you need to bust them in their
face and make them think twice. And I bet you
what when when Representative Pearson was over there by him,
he was sitting real quiet, wasn't he, because he had
real big nuts when he was there trying to put
him down, except for he left around and found out

(01:32:40):
that you can't come for him like that. And I'm
thankful that the chair got the appropriate tone, because if
you can't go support your family at a time of death,
I mean, that's unacceptable. And I'm angry about it my damn.

Speaker 1 (01:32:53):
Self, folks. Lots of anger has been expressed on Capitol
Hill as republic Cans continue to lie repeatedly, over and
over and over again about this signal chat where they
were sharing classified information. Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor in chief
of the Atlantic, actually release those text messages today showing

(01:33:17):
you the conversation, and instead of them just admitting to
it now, they tried to, oh, well, let's dance around
it and oh, well, no want now shift blame, and
Democrats were giving them hell. Peter Heck said, he's out
here still trying to defend it, and it's.

Speaker 25 (01:33:36):
Like y'all screwed up. But they don't want to own
up to the screw up.

Speaker 1 (01:33:39):
What they want to do is they want to keep
trying to shift it and shift the blame over and
over and over again. There's also a story that says
here that a Department of Defense official allowed them to
install signal because they've been having these open chats.

Speaker 25 (01:33:56):
Because again, you're.

Speaker 1 (01:33:57):
Not keeping a record when you're supposed to actually be
keeping a record. And listen, there are some folk who
would not having it, and one of those, of course
is veteran Illinois Tammy Duckworth. She lost several of her
limbs fighting for this country. She went on Fox and
she didn't let him know exactly how she stood about lying.

(01:34:18):
As Pete higg Saith.

Speaker 39 (01:34:19):
Watched this, you said, Pete Hegseth is an fing liar.
This is so clearly classified info he recklessly leaked that
could have gotten our pilots killed. You say he needs
to resign. Here is Secretary of Headseth dealing with those
questions today.

Speaker 1 (01:34:36):
Nobody's texting war plans.

Speaker 38 (01:34:38):
There's no units, no locations, no routes, no flight paths,
no sources, no methods, no classified information.

Speaker 25 (01:34:49):
You know who sees war plans?

Speaker 8 (01:34:51):
I see them every single day.

Speaker 9 (01:34:55):
So you think you should step down?

Speaker 1 (01:34:57):
I do.

Speaker 33 (01:34:57):
Because what he texted was the drones are going to hit,
then the second sorty of F eighteens will be on target.
That tells the enemy exactly when the drones hit in
that spot. Thirty minutes later, the FA teens are going
to be there. That is my concern.

Speaker 8 (01:35:10):
That's why I'm so upset.

Speaker 33 (01:35:11):
As a former pilot, you know, I have a special
affinity for pilots who are out there and these men
and women. Thank goodness we're not you know, we're not
injured on this mission. And I worry about future missions.
I worry that our allies might not share information with
us if they feel that we do not know how
to safeguard.

Speaker 25 (01:35:27):
Hey, she cut right to the chase, y'all on that one.

Speaker 1 (01:35:30):
And so but you got these folks out here who
just continue their bs. You know, we Okaine, You know
who is just one of the biggest maga ass kissers
that exist. I mean he he got into it today
with Congressmen Jim Crow over this whole issue. And now

(01:35:53):
and here's Will Caine, who ain't served a day in
the military, going against a member of Congress who did.
Server of the military watched this exchange. We have to know.
Two more questions.

Speaker 8 (01:36:06):
Was the location of those strikes in that messaging?

Speaker 30 (01:36:10):
I don't believe the locations were, but that doesn't.

Speaker 25 (01:36:13):
Matter the targets.

Speaker 8 (01:36:14):
Let me targeting another question. Let me explain how the
targets are regional?

Speaker 1 (01:36:19):
Will these are regional.

Speaker 30 (01:36:21):
Air defense systems. These are regional air defense systems. Let
me explain how an essay three and an essay six works.
These are the two systems that the Whoies have that
they got from the Russians. If they know that aircraft
are flying over a region or an area, not even
a specific target, they can launch an Essay three in
an Essay six, much like they did when they shot
down the MQ nine Reaper drone last year.

Speaker 25 (01:36:41):
So they don't need to know the exact location.

Speaker 30 (01:36:44):
So here you have people on this signal text chain,
one of whom, by the way, was sitting in Moscow
when this happened. I was sitting in Moscow, the most
dangerous environment in the world for a cell.

Speaker 8 (01:36:57):
Phone, and they were saying that we are why know
the details?

Speaker 30 (01:37:02):
So colors and everybody watching could have shot him down.

Speaker 1 (01:37:07):
Will Kaye, I know the detail you asked. I ain't
served in the military. Pet May I trying to tell
you this is why I dropped this Blackstar Network inaugural
to War last night on Will Kane.

Speaker 22 (01:37:18):
The Golden Trump MAGA asked Kissing a War, Honoring a
lifetime of the exceptional flattery and unwavering dedication to ask
Kissing Excellence awarded to Fox News's Will Cane for on
paralleled commitment to the fine art of sycophancy. This prestigious
honor recognizes those who have bent over backward, perfected the

(01:37:40):
art of empty praise, and elevated brown nosing to an
Olympic level sport.

Speaker 1 (01:37:45):
From his relentless.

Speaker 22 (01:37:46):
Nodding in agreement to his uncanny ability to complement even
the most questionable decisions, Will Caine has demonstrated an unwavering
devotion to the craft of kissing ass. His lips have
graced the ass of twice impeach, criminally convicted felon in
chief Don the Contrump with such finesse that even history
itself must pause and admiration. May this golden trump maga

(01:38:10):
ask kissing a ward serve as a symbol of Wolcine's
lifelong achievement of puckering up and kissing the ass of
a wannabe dictator and ensuring his legacy of loyalty remains
forever unchecked.

Speaker 1 (01:38:28):
Well earned. Today on Capitol Hill, you had, of course,
Tulci Gabbert lied before Congress, and Carson Joaquin Castro, Texas
he wouldn't have none of it.

Speaker 40 (01:38:44):
Tulsea, you and I came into the Congress together in
twenty thirteens, ready and cash. You and I was serving
on the Intelligence Committee. When you worked on the Intelligence Committee,
and John you and I are both from Texas and
we both served together on the Intelligence Committee.

Speaker 1 (01:38:58):
Yah.

Speaker 40 (01:38:59):
The idea that the information, if it was presented to
our committee would not be classified, y'all know, is a lie.

Speaker 1 (01:39:06):
That's ridiculous.

Speaker 40 (01:39:08):
I've seen things much less sensitive be presented to us
with high classification. And to say that it is a
light of the country. I want to ask the generals now,
the NSA is principally in charge of intercepting things like
signals intelligence from other countries. General, I want to ask you,

(01:39:31):
if your organization, your agency intercepted something like this from
Russia or China or some other country, would you consider
this class Folks.

Speaker 1 (01:39:39):
The amount of line that we are seeing today, they
are attacking everybody. They're attacking Jeffrey Goldberg. Now they're claiming
old Elon Muskin Dolhe. You're going to be investigating how
he got into a signal chat. Y'all, I got signaled.
You add somebody from your phone. I'm sorry, this is
not hard for US Congressman Haiking, Jeffrey's Democratic leader, dropped

(01:40:01):
the letter yesterday calling on Pete Heggseth to resign. He
joins us right now. Democratic Leader Jeffers is glad to
have you here. Let's just be real clear. Peter heag
Seth replaced a retired four star general, a man whose
resume that Peter hegg Sath couldn't even carry. This man

(01:40:21):
is an embarrassment. And now he's trying to say, oh, no,
there were no new warplanes. Things along those lines. If
you are the Defense secretary and you have a group
chat and the secretary states on it, and you're the
national Security Advisor Director of National Intelligence.

Speaker 25 (01:40:35):
In a CIA.

Speaker 1 (01:40:37):
It is not hard to click and check to see
who is all on this chat before you're having sensitive
national security conversations.

Speaker 23 (01:40:48):
That's absolutely correct. Heg Seth is a complete and total fraud,
which is exactly why I called upon Donald Trump directly
to fire peace heg Seth. If heg Sath doesn't have
the courage to resign and disgrace and own up to
the fact that he's way in over his head.

Speaker 9 (01:41:09):
He was never qualified for this position.

Speaker 23 (01:41:11):
In fact, he's the most unqualified person ever to hold
the position of Secretary of Defense, one of the most
important positions in the entire United States government, in fact,
in the free.

Speaker 1 (01:41:25):
World here, I mean, this is not hard. They sort
of get it. Yesterday made a mistake. No, now you
want to double down. Now you want to attack. Then
you want to claim was classified. Then you want to
claim is not classified. Then you want to attack the reporter.
You want to attack the media, You want to attack democrats.

(01:41:46):
They screwed up. They screwed up, and now they're all
will know. Yeah, the signal was loaded. Now a one
reporter is suggesting that that they gave a waiver to
allow signal, which means that if that's the case, they
are purposely trying to skirt freedom of information at they
also do not want those records to be kept.

Speaker 25 (01:42:08):
They are purposely trying to break the law.

Speaker 23 (01:42:12):
It appears that several laws have been violated, including the
Espionage Act, and that's one of the things that Democrats
are going to continue to press forward on as it
relates to this investigation and the unfolding scandal. We're going
to make sure people are held accountable and there are
a lot of questions that need to be answered. And

(01:42:32):
what we saw over the last few days was just
lies and evasion and attempts to deflect. This is the
pattern that this administration has continued to engage in. We
ain't gonna let them get away with it. We are
going to keep pressing the case on this. This is
only the beginning. Here's the other thing. Roland Pete Hegseath

(01:42:54):
is the post a child for mediocrity. But at the
same time, this dude wants to lecture the country about meritocracy.

Speaker 1 (01:43:02):
Are you kidding like.

Speaker 9 (01:43:06):
It's a laughable situation.

Speaker 23 (01:43:07):
He wants to erase and cancel Jackie Robinson's military history
and record He wants to erase and cancel the bravery
and heroism of the Tuskegee airmen who were so skilled
and gifted that other fighter pilots and bombers only wanted
them to have their back when they were flying over

(01:43:29):
Nazi Germany. He wants to erase that history. They want
to claim that it's all about merit. It ain't all
about merit. We believe in merit. Merit should be based
on what you know. But instead they want merit based on.

Speaker 1 (01:43:43):
Who you know.

Speaker 23 (01:43:43):
And because they think Pete Hexath looks the part, whatever
that means, they put this woefully unqualified person into the position,
and now they're failing in real time.

Speaker 1 (01:43:54):
We talk about unqualified. Here we got four United States
soldiers missing for fourteen hours. Natos says they were found dead.
Hasn't been confirmed for the US military. We literally have
not heard from the US military. And here is the
twice impeached, criminally convicted felon con man, Donald Trump. This
is when he was asked in the Oval office about this. Listeners,

(01:44:20):
you've been briefed about the soldiers in Lithuania. We're missing,
no heaven, Sir Beef confused if President Joe Biden had
answered a question that he wasn't being briefed.

Speaker 25 (01:44:34):
They would say, who's running the White House?

Speaker 1 (01:44:36):
Who's doing what?

Speaker 25 (01:44:37):
This man is not working?

Speaker 1 (01:44:39):
How is it that you have sold four United States
soldiers missing for fourteen hours? And he was like, I
don't know, I don't know what's going on. Nobody's talked
to me. And yesterday he wasn't aware of the signal
as well. I'm sorry. Who's running the country.

Speaker 23 (01:44:56):
Perhaps Elon Musk, which is disturbing in and of itself.
The whole thing is a malignant clown show. Emphasis on
the word malignant because it's very dangerous. And what we're
seeing is that the health, the safety, the national security,
the well being of the American people are at risk,
the well being of our troops are at risk.

Speaker 9 (01:45:18):
And this is extraordinary.

Speaker 23 (01:45:19):
But it was bound to catch up to these people,
and it's catching up to them with record speed.

Speaker 25 (01:45:29):
This is the excuse making to me.

Speaker 1 (01:45:34):
Is be unbelief. And let's just this, just be clear.
Your counterpart House speaker Mike Johnson, Oh my god, talk
about gut list.

Speaker 25 (01:45:44):
I mean, so it's just more excuses.

Speaker 1 (01:45:46):
The reality is that you do not have a party
across the aisle that wants to keep this man in check,
thank goodness. Senator Roger Wicker of Mississippi said they got
to bypartisan in a call for an inspector general to
do report on what happened here. But the reality is
Republicans in the House in the Senate, they don't care.

(01:46:09):
They will they want this man to do whatever he wants.
There will be no accountability, and all they offer.

Speaker 25 (01:46:15):
Is a slew of excuses, over and.

Speaker 1 (01:46:17):
Over and over.

Speaker 9 (01:46:19):
That's right.

Speaker 23 (01:46:20):
By the way, they tried to fire all of the
inspector generals. We had to sue and judges had to
reverse it because it was an unlawful action. And it's
my sense certainly. I mean, the House Republican Conference, forget
about them. They continue to bury their heads in the sand.
They think they work for Donald Trump and Elon Musk
Congress works for the American people, and so they're sycophantic behavior.

(01:46:44):
We expect that that's going to continue, but we will
press the case. We're going to use every lever available
to us to make sure that we follow the facts.
We apply to law with guided by the Constitution, we
expose these frauds for who they are and then make
sure that there is some accountability.

Speaker 9 (01:47:03):
Here's the thing, what the House Republicans are interested in.

Speaker 23 (01:47:05):
At the end of the day, They've done nothing to
make life more affordable, nothing to lower costs. Costs are
going up. They're not going down. Inflation's going up. What's
going down are the retirement savings of the American people.
They're trying to gut Social Security, gut Medicare, gut Medicaid,
gut veterans benefits, gut nutritional assistance for children and families. Literally,

(01:47:31):
they want to take food out of the mouths of babies.
Why are they doing all of this so they can
pass the GOP tax scam and give massive tax cuts
to their billionaire puppet masters like Elon Musk.

Speaker 9 (01:47:44):
So we have to continue to expose.

Speaker 23 (01:47:47):
What's happening on the hill, push back into Congress, push
back in the courts, push back in communities all across
the country, so we can win the hearts and minds
of the American people and end this national nightmare as
soon as possible.

Speaker 1 (01:48:00):
That particular point there. Obviously, your midterm elections are not
happening until next year. What we have going on, you
got some goodlatorial races this year, You've got some constitutional
amendments on the Battle of Louisiana this Sarday, the Wisconsin
Supreme Court race that's taking place on April first. You also,
of course, just had a special election where a Democrat

(01:48:22):
won a state Senate race in Pennsylvania in the district
that Trump won by fifteen points. You got people who
are still sitting here saying, oh my god, Democrats are
not doing enough. What are you and others doing? On Monday,
we live stream the conversation between you and Ken Martin
and was moderated by Recy Cobert. Were lostm that right

(01:48:43):
here on the Black Star Network. Democrats are winning in
these places. So this idea and also you down, You're
only a down three in the House. You got two
special elections in Florida in some red districts. You got
one in New York's New York State. So I'm confused
this doom and gloom everything is over Democrats. Polling is

(01:49:04):
at twenty nine percent.

Speaker 25 (01:49:06):
But what are you seeing? What are you hearing? And
what do you say to those who just think that.

Speaker 1 (01:49:13):
The world has ended and Democrats will keep losing elections
for forever.

Speaker 23 (01:49:18):
Yeah, I appreciate you bringing that up. Roland, because the
reality is in all of these different arenas we actually
are winning. House Democrats outraised House Republicans in January. In fact,
House Democrats had a record January in terms of our
history in and off year. We outraised them by four

(01:49:39):
million dollars. That in February we outraised House Republicans again
by two million dollars. In fact, House Democrats outraised Senate
Republicans as well, which almost never happens. At the same
period of time, we won a special election in Iowa,
a state Senate race in January. That was race in

(01:50:00):
a district that Trump had won by twenty one points
and a Democrat won by four That was a twenty
five point turnaround. Trump had literally just won that district
by twenty one points in November, just two months before. Then,
in February, an African American won a special election for
county executive in Westchester County, one of the suburban counties

(01:50:22):
swing counties represented by a Republican in Congress, Mike Lawler.

Speaker 9 (01:50:27):
We did our thing there.

Speaker 23 (01:50:28):
Then, as you pointed out, Roland, we just had another
special election in Pennsylvania, a district that Trump had won
by fifteen points and a Democrat turned around and won it,
and so the American people are rising up. Democrats are
actually energized and turning out to vote. Republicans are the
ones who are apparently demoralized.

Speaker 9 (01:50:50):
They're not turning out.

Speaker 23 (01:50:52):
And then swing voters, independent voters in these races are
actually voting for the Democratic candidate because they know that
we have a vision to build an economy that works
for everyday Americans and to pushback against these attacks on
our democracy. And Republicans are trying to create a country
of the billionaires, by the billionaires, and for the billionaires,

(01:51:13):
and that's a totally unacceptable vision.

Speaker 1 (01:51:16):
In addition to that, we're now seeing these news stories
come out how Donald Trump is having food delivery trucks
turned around. You've got food banks in Ohio on other
places that are not getting food. I thought these people
were pro life.

Speaker 23 (01:51:32):
Yeah, it's extraordinary. It's all phony. I mean, it's all phony.
At the end of the day, what drives them is
massive tax breaks for billionaires and wealthy corporation. All this
talk about trying to make life better for working class
Americans that went out the door the day after they won,

(01:51:55):
and now it's just an extreme agenda dismantling the Social
Security meministration in real time. Why would they go after
our parents and our grandparents who rely upon Social Security
to live on average sixty five.

Speaker 9 (01:52:10):
Dollars a day.

Speaker 23 (01:52:11):
But they're leaving Elon musk alone, who's got eight million
dollars a day in federal.

Speaker 8 (01:52:16):
Contract, send out their check.

Speaker 9 (01:52:18):
It's insane.

Speaker 1 (01:52:19):
I'm glad you brought up social Security. There's been a
lot of conversation. We covered this the other day. You
got the Commerce secretary, billionaire worth four billion dollars, doing
a show where he brought up if social Security checks
relate for his mother in law. This is what he
had to say. This is Howard Lutnick.

Speaker 25 (01:52:40):
Let's say social Security didn't send out their checks.

Speaker 1 (01:52:44):
This month.

Speaker 25 (01:52:46):
My mother in law, who's ninety four.

Speaker 1 (01:52:49):
She wouldn't call and complain. She just wouldn't.

Speaker 25 (01:52:52):
She thinks something got messed up and she'll get it
next month.

Speaker 28 (01:52:56):
A fraudster always makes the loudest noise, screaming, yelling.

Speaker 1 (01:53:02):
And complete Okay, I'm sorry. This man is worth four
billion dollars. Okay, let's be real clear. If I got
four million, four billion dollars my mother in law, Unfortunately,
mine is deceased.

Speaker 25 (01:53:19):
She ain't waiting on a Social Security check. Let's just
be real clear.

Speaker 1 (01:53:22):
But this idea that, oh, she wouldn't say anything, she
just wait for it next month.

Speaker 25 (01:53:27):
The millions of people that depend on that check being
on time.

Speaker 1 (01:53:32):
How arrogant is this billionaire making a claim like that?
And basically he's saying, if you're upset and your Social
Security check is late, you're a fraudster.

Speaker 23 (01:53:45):
My mother relies on her Social Security check. Her son
is not a billionaire, and I can tell you that
if that Social Security check is late, even the day late,
she's on the phone with her congressman's son trying to
figure out what happens.

Speaker 9 (01:54:01):
Open up a constituent case.

Speaker 23 (01:54:03):
Why because she needs it, just like millions and millions
of others all across the country. And by the way,
social Security is an earned benefit. People have paid into
Social Security and Medicare throughout their entire lives. This isn't charity.
These are benefits that they've earned and that they deserve.

(01:54:25):
They've worked hard for their entire lives, and it is arrogance,
as you've indicated. But what we've seen from this administration
and the Pete Hexath signal Gate scandal, national security scandal
is evidence of this. It's a combination of arrogance and incompetence.
That's a toxic combination, and the American people are paying

(01:54:46):
the price.

Speaker 1 (01:54:47):
Absolutely. Last question I have for you, Congressman, A lot
of folks have been paying attention to when it came
to the cr bill, You and the Democrats are heil
strong against the that Senator Chuck Schumer voted for. That
Folks were speculating, you know, and we've heard others say
there needs to be a change. What is the state

(01:55:08):
of your relationship with Senator Chuck Schumer? And can people
expect to see that Democrats are going to vigorously fight
this administration. I made the point the guy who won
the race in Pennsylvania last night, he ran a campaign
where he went hard against Trump.

Speaker 25 (01:55:23):
Against Elon Musk.

Speaker 1 (01:55:25):
People out there want to see Democrats fighting for what's right,
fighting for the values.

Speaker 25 (01:55:31):
Is Senator Chuck Schumer up for this battle?

Speaker 1 (01:55:35):
Yes? I believe so.

Speaker 23 (01:55:36):
We had a strong disagreement and there's no sugarcoating that
and a different view about how to approach what we
as House Democrats viewed as a reckless Republican spending bill
that would hurt children, hurt families, hurt seniors, hurt veterans,
and we rejected it because in our view, it was
completely and totally unacceptable, and we were ready to aggressively

(01:56:00):
push back and have that kind of public debate, discussion,
fight battle on behalf of the American people. Now, subsequent
to that disagreement, Chuck Schumer and I sat down. I've
known him for a long period of time. We both
live in Brooklyn. We had an open and honest and
candid conversation about the way forward, and though we disagreed

(01:56:23):
about the spending issue, we do agree on the overwhelming
majority of issues, and I think we're going to be
in alignment on the fights to come, particularly as it
relates to the need to save the healthcare of the
American people and push back against and stop the Republican
effort to visit upon the American people the largest Medicaid

(01:56:43):
cut in American history, which is outrageous and disgusting and
needs to be stopped.

Speaker 1 (01:56:48):
All Right, Dan Well congs with Hai, Keen Jeffries. We
appreciate it. And hey, again, you and Ken Martin sat down,
and I'll throw this out. I would love to host
in our studio, y'all just tell me how much time
y'all want to do it.

Speaker 25 (01:57:04):
You Senator Schumer and Ken Martin to have.

Speaker 1 (01:57:08):
A conversation about the future forward for the Democratic Party.
You guys, let me know when we can make it happen.

Speaker 9 (01:57:15):
Count me in. I look forward to making that happen.

Speaker 25 (01:57:17):
I appreciate it.

Speaker 1 (01:57:18):
Thanks a lot, okay, man, folks bring in my panel here,
bringing in, of course, Rebecca Joy and Jalanda. I'll start
with Rebecca. Start with you, folks want they want to
see you fighting. One of the reasons why we discussed
this earlier why people gravitate towards congress Woman Jasmine Crockett.

(01:57:42):
One of the reasons why when it comes to the
view and other shows, why her numbers are so high,
and because the audience says, Yo, somebody's showing some spirit.

Speaker 25 (01:57:52):
We're seeing Alexandria Cazio Cortez.

Speaker 1 (01:57:55):
We're seeing these rallies she's doing across the country with
Senator Bernie Sanders. We're seeing this happening with so many
different differ people. They want to see a fight, and
what has happened this week with these signal chats, they
have got a chance to see on television, on social media,
in digital spaces, center, Mark Warner and others and House

(01:58:15):
members really going hard. That has to be happening every
single day on critical issues.

Speaker 10 (01:58:24):
You know, absolutely Roland, this country, the houses of fire.
We don't need people to have a committee hearing figuring
out what caused the fire. We need people to step
up and immediately put the fire out. I put in
the YouTube chat a quick explanation of why the signal chat,
why these text messages are such a big deal. People

(01:58:44):
have to understand that the text messages that were that
were shared are both top secret and secret. What's the
how the classiflication standards are. If it is if it
is information that's explaining the why the rationale of our
operation of the United States Government is doing, then that's

(01:59:05):
at the secret level.

Speaker 3 (01:59:06):
When it's starting to.

Speaker 10 (01:59:07):
Explain the how we operate, how we do the thing,
then that becomes top secret. The reason why people should
care about that particular story is as soon as our
enemies understand the how and the why in which we're
carrying out operations around the world, immediately that whole chain
of operations, how we're doing the particular type of operation, immediately.

Speaker 1 (01:59:30):
Goes on a burn.

Speaker 10 (01:59:31):
Notice, it gets burned because there are thousands of people
around the world who could be implicated. So even the
innocuous part of the conversation talking about the weather is clear.
So this is a good time to carry out the
operations that provides our enemies with actual factual information on
our satellite positioning.

Speaker 8 (01:59:51):
Because in order to.

Speaker 10 (01:59:52):
Understand some of these text messages like once again Hegseth
the rest of them, they're trying to downplay it. But
to our enemies when they're gathering in intelligence on us,
they have a blank sheet of paper.

Speaker 8 (02:00:02):
So what those text.

Speaker 10 (02:00:03):
Messages did is started to fill out the pieces of
the paper, the pieces of the puzzle, puzzle for them
to understand the inner workings of how our government is
functioning when it comes to when it comes to international operations.
So people have to understand we're not just on fire domestically,
we're on fire globally around the world, and we need

(02:00:24):
the opposition party to stand up and do something about it.
Which is why when you're seeing AOC, when you see
Jasmine Crockett, when you see Bernie Sanders going across the
country and speaking ghetto or in playing language, it means
that they're actually breaking through local media, breaking through a
lot of the Fox and the thin Clayer news channels,

(02:00:46):
and people are starting to get clued in. Hey, the
country is on fire. Something needs to be done about it.

Speaker 1 (02:00:52):
And again, the reason I sat there and put the
request in Julanda to Congress Congressman Jeffers is look on
the night, on the night that we had out of
the state of our Union. Hey, when when Trump started
speaking in our studios, we had a Bishop William Barber. Listen,
we were right there with national broadcasters. We had two

(02:01:15):
hundred and fifty thousand folks watching live. And I've been
saying the CBC members, hey, don't just be waiting on
invites from MSNBC. Y'all should be maximizing black on media.
I've said to point blank, I will have a CBC
member on this show every single day, five days a week.
All the guy do is pick which one day they

(02:01:36):
want to come on. And there are CBC members who
are out there fighting Stacey plast get comes from the
Stacey plasket.

Speaker 25 (02:01:42):
Or the Virgin Islands.

Speaker 1 (02:01:43):
I mean again, this is her a couple of last
week talking about the battle over social security.

Speaker 12 (02:01:50):
Why are they keeping this information and what is the
purpose of it. Make no mistake, the Trump administration's actions
are to devastate the Social Security Administration's ability to serve
the public and deliver Social Security payments so that they
can then have access to two point seven trillion dollars

(02:02:12):
for Wall Street to be able.

Speaker 1 (02:02:13):
To play with.

Speaker 12 (02:02:15):
They need more money because you know what, we're not
addicted to spending, as my colleague said, many people are
addicted to greed.

Speaker 25 (02:02:24):
That's what this is about.

Speaker 12 (02:02:26):
And the greed happens to be not from themselves but
for the American people. They that's the Ponzi scheme is
then taking your damn money and using it for them
own self to enrich themselves more than they already.

Speaker 1 (02:02:41):
Call a fight. It's call a fight, Yolanda.

Speaker 25 (02:02:44):
And people want to see you fight.

Speaker 8 (02:02:47):
Of course, they want to see a fight. And that's
why people didn't fight for Democrats to win in these
last elections, because we as a party aren't fight. And
I can tell you what, when you're used to being oppressed,
you at least want to fight. Don't Nobody want to
go down and get whooped without a fight. And I
told my son, if somebody tries to fight. You you
better fight so hard. Either number one you win or

(02:03:09):
number two you fought so hard. Dain't want to get
no mold your stuff, and they gonna go to somebody else.
And what we need is we need people speaking in
plain language like she was talking about where she was
talking about, they want to take the money that you
paid and oh, by the way, when the guy was
talking about getting paid late, that you're a froster, No, sir,

(02:03:30):
they took the money timely out of every paycheck we made.
We didn't get to pay them when we felt like it,
and we paid into that. But American people sometimes I
fear that we speak over their heads right, and they
may not understand international stuff, because why you worried about
what's going on overseas, you struggling at home. So these
are some things that maybe regular people can understand and

(02:03:53):
make you understand why the Defense secretary being incompetent is
you should really care about it because many of us
have our relatives who run the military, and they're the
ones who are sent to the front lines. So they
the ones that the first ones that go to war.
And if some stuff don't go right with how we
run the military, our loved ones are the ones that
are going to be coming home, So we need to

(02:04:14):
worry about that. When your defense secretary can even defend
his own group check, that's the problem. How you going
to defend this country. You can't run national defense like
a frat house group chat. That's irresponsible when you're so incompetent,
like you said Roland, that you're sending something on signal
to reporters. If somebody knows how I'm doing stuff, then

(02:04:38):
they are more likely to be able to defend against it.
It's no different than if you're an athlete, right and
you scout the other team right before you play. You
go see what they're good at, what they're bad at,
look at your weaknesses and your streams, and figure out
how to beat them. Because you have information that's exactly
what it takes to defend against this country. And as
much as this country has disrespected the world and caused

(02:05:01):
people in other countries to die, trust and believe that
if that information gets in the wrong hands, the people
that are going to be hurt are us. The people
that are going to be hurt are our military. So
it's a big deal. It's a big deal.

Speaker 25 (02:05:14):
I just I just I just need folk to understand that.

Speaker 1 (02:05:20):
And we kept saying this, we joy, we preach this,
we preach this art that product twenty twenty five was real.

Speaker 25 (02:05:27):
What these people want to do.

Speaker 1 (02:05:29):
Listen this executive order he signed yesterday, Donald Trump wants
to give Elon musk Indulge access to the voter data
of every state. Georgia is about to do a purge
of five hundred thousand voters. These people are preparing to
steal the twenty twenty six in the twenty twenty eight election.

Speaker 11 (02:05:54):
Absolutely, let's be clear, we are at a very vulnerable
state as a country. If you were another country and
you were evaluating when to make an attack on the
United States, these are the signs that you would look for.
We are vulnerable in our elections. We are vulnerable because
we are very divided as a nation. We are vulnerable
because we have incompetent people in power. And what's worse

(02:06:17):
than them being incompetent is the way that they tried
to solve it. So instead of just saying a mistake happened,
that's obviously the case.

Speaker 3 (02:06:26):
We can obviously see it.

Speaker 11 (02:06:28):
Top secret information was shared, It was potentially damaging. Thank god,
it didn't happen, Let's figure out who's to blame, let's
fix it, or let's get rid of the person in
pete hexxath. Instead of doing that, they've tried to make
they tried to say that the journalist was a liar.
They've tried to suggest that maybe there was some illegality

(02:06:50):
going on and how they got in the text chain.

Speaker 3 (02:06:52):
They added him to the text chain.

Speaker 11 (02:06:55):
Okay, that's how it happened, which then required the Atlantic
to say, let me just release what was said so
we can stop.

Speaker 3 (02:07:00):
Saying that this didn't happen.

Speaker 11 (02:07:03):
It's it's that they're trying to also blame signals somehow,
that it's somehow signal's fault.

Speaker 3 (02:07:10):
That is what ruins a country.

Speaker 11 (02:07:12):
When you can't even say you made a mistake, you
got it wrong, you're bad.

Speaker 3 (02:07:17):
It makes people not trust you, It makes you more vulnerable.

Speaker 11 (02:07:21):
It means that other countries now are also saying, what
the hell happened, and they're saying, you know what, until
we get a full accounting of what happened, we're not
going to do business with you.

Speaker 4 (02:07:30):
We're not going to share secrets with you.

Speaker 11 (02:07:32):
We may share part of it with you, but we're
not going to share the whole thing with you, because
you're not to be trusted. We already have other countries
deciding to figure out what's happening in Ukraine and right
separate and apart from the United States, we are not
in the coalition of good people.

Speaker 10 (02:07:51):
In the world.

Speaker 3 (02:07:52):
We are being aligned with the authoritarian regimes. We are
in trouble.

Speaker 11 (02:07:59):
As an we are in trouble, and it is operable
that Russia has interfered with our elections that have brought
us here.

Speaker 1 (02:08:06):
Well again, Uh, you gotta stay in the gage. You
gotta be able to say fight. That's one of the
reasons why I love this prayer from George Lucas's film
Red Tales, because that's what was about. Fight. No, this
is difficult. Everything a Chile, from the last plane to
the last bullet, to the last minute to the last man.

(02:08:28):
We fight.

Speaker 25 (02:08:33):
Oh, it's called fight time. Quick break.

Speaker 1 (02:08:35):
We come back. We're gonna chat with Isaac Hayes, the third,
the founder of fan Base. Uh, everybody's talking about encrypted apps.
Signal is not the only one that's out there. We'll
discuss right back. You're watching Rolling Unfiltered the black Star Network.

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Speaker 14 (02:10:10):
Is John Murray, executive producer of the new Sherry Slipper
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Speaker 25 (02:10:13):
This is Boy Herb Quad and you're tuned.

Speaker 1 (02:10:15):
In to Roland Martin.

Speaker 9 (02:10:16):
Unfilful.

Speaker 1 (02:10:35):
All right, folks, saying crypti apps for now everybody's talking
about because of all this drama in DC over Signal Gate.
But Signal, of course is a dominant force in this marketplace.
A lot of people, a lot of people have a
utilizing signal, which is UH in an American app. But
guess what is not the only encrypted app out there,

(02:10:57):
Osa case. The third is the founder of the app
fan base Jones is right now UH and Isaac. Again,
folks are talking about it, but this is from PC mag.
They listed some of the top apps and go to
my iPad, Anthony, so we see Signal. They rated the
best overall UH Signal Private Messenger, biggest user base is
What's app? Best for social networking? Telegram best for anonymous

(02:11:21):
texting Session? I never heard of session. Best for avoiding surveillance, Briar,
I never heard a briar and there's one app that
that I was made aware of. I think it's I
think it's out of Switzerland. It's called it's called wire uh.
And so a lot of people are now understanding why
these encrypted apps are so important.

Speaker 20 (02:11:44):
Yeah, they are, I mean, encrypt apps are important, but
they're not bulletproof. They're not, you know, safe from human error.
So an encrypted message is secure from transmission to transmissions
I send a message to.

Speaker 1 (02:11:59):
You mean may help mening phone to phone.

Speaker 20 (02:12:03):
Yes, so the message, the message secure from one device
to another device. That does not prevent the person on
the other end screenshotting that image. It does not prevent
metadata collection, and it doesn't prevent someone actually sending the wrong.

Speaker 9 (02:12:16):
Message like user error.

Speaker 20 (02:12:18):
So what Hexcess did is exactly you know why encryption
is not bulletproof because the sender can actually send the
message to the wrong person or the wrong individual. Now,
encryption is good when it's trusted, but again, screenshots, metadata collection,
all those things are harmful. So even when you're using
encrypted devices, you have to trust the individuals that you're
sending those that information to on the other end, So

(02:12:40):
it's always the trusted source in which you share this information.

Speaker 1 (02:12:43):
Well, in fact, this happened last month. Got to my
iPad where the FBI actually won't urge Americans to begin
using encrypted apps because they said that Russia, China and
others they had invade it. The telecoms, it says right here,
admitted the unprecedented cyber attack on telecommunications companies such as

(02:13:05):
AT and T, Verizon. Your sufficients have recommended Americans usingcrypted
messaging apps to ensure that communications stay hitting from foreign hackers. Uh.
And they literally said, Isaac that these hackers were literally
inside of these telecoms waiting to unleash, meaning they could
see your text messages, to your emails, excuse me, your

(02:13:27):
your videos or photos that you posted. And so that's
why they encourage people to actually begin to use the
encrypted apps.

Speaker 20 (02:13:35):
Yeah, I Message on Apple is actually encrypted, even when
you do like FaceTime video calls. Again, that's encrypted from
sender to receiver back and forth. But these apps are
not built for government level.

Speaker 1 (02:13:49):
But hold hold hold on, I want your hold there.
But even though you use I Message, if you have
if your I Message is connected to the cloud, and
then all of your messages, so somebody breaks into a
cloud account, they can see your text messages with ID message.

Speaker 25 (02:14:04):
So it's not it's not it's not the same.

Speaker 1 (02:14:06):
Because with a signal, it's not like like I have
two different phones, but I have to actually connect to
an account with each phone. Uh, it can't be like well,
taking on one phone automatically transfers to the other phone.

Speaker 20 (02:14:21):
Correct, you have to sign in from device to device.
I myself, personally, do not use iCloud. I did not
store my photos, any of my contacts, or any of
my information on the cloud. I secured that data on
actually my laptop. Yes, you know, I have a backup
there because I've never really trusted the cloud. I don't
think a lot of people should always trust the cloud
because those types of systems can be hacked and people

(02:14:41):
can see that information. But again, these platforms are not
built for government level security to actually serve classified information
between parties.

Speaker 1 (02:14:50):
And so that's a big area that was made here.

Speaker 20 (02:14:52):
You know, there's there's encrypman securities for you know, civilian
transmission of you know, normal every everyday conversations companies thing
like that. But the government has government level encryption encrypted devices,
and I'm wondering why those devices are not used in
conjunction with the secrets and the information that was distributing
amongst the people, because this would not have happened if

(02:15:13):
they were using the protocols in place that we have
that have existed before you know, this new administration.

Speaker 1 (02:15:19):
But again so that's I mean, that's government, that's administration.
But the reason it is important for regular ordinary people
understands so less you take signal, people don't realize what signal.
You can actually seend text messages, seend photos, PhDs, audio files,
video files, you can do phone calls, you can also
do video conferencing. And so by doing that listen, it

(02:15:43):
was like the government wistle blowers actually turned me on
the signal because how they wanted to communicate because it
doesn't leave a doesn't leave a doesn't leave a record
the same way your phone lag does and your text
message as well. So again people need to understand that
there are pros and cons to this. And when you
hear it's safe, that's as an oxymoron. It's not one

(02:16:07):
hundred percent safe because as you said, you have to
trust the person on the other end when it comes
to that data. Asked Eric Adams, they were using what's app,
but they were able to recover those what app messages
because on your end you might have them to tip
to disappear, but then somebody else they may be screenshoting
them or saving them.

Speaker 20 (02:16:28):
Yeah, if any of the individuals that received that classified
information had lost their device and that device is accessible
by someone that may find that device. So that's why
I said, between who you're sending that information to, and
it shouldn't be on a platform like signal because yep,
again this is classified information and so we have to
be very very careful about that type of situation. Even,

(02:16:48):
like I said, even civilians, even myself. The information that
we send, we use other encrypted devices to send that information.
So anybody out there in the world that has a device,
it is okay. And it's very recommended that you use
platforms like Whatsapple, like Telegram, and Telegram really actually has
Telegram is not always encrypted. That's one that's not always encrypted,

(02:17:08):
but I Message is another one on WhatsApp. Those are
safer platforms you can actually send message and information.

Speaker 1 (02:17:14):
Well, actually I told someone they will communicating with their
accountant text message. I'm like, what are you doing. I'm like,
oh no, no, if you're communicating with your accountant, you
need to be on Signal or some encrypted app. Questions
from the panel, Jaalana, your first, Well, what.

Speaker 8 (02:17:29):
I'd like to know? I mean, I use Signal, but
what do you think the best is out there?

Speaker 1 (02:17:35):
Again?

Speaker 20 (02:17:35):
I think I think WhatsApp and I Message are And
I had to ask this question before of actually research
this information. I hate what that Yeah, even with FaceTime
calls on Apple and messaging. So if you have those
devices again on Android, I would recommend using WhatsApp.

Speaker 8 (02:17:57):
And Roland. Why do you hate what'sapp?

Speaker 1 (02:17:59):
What are because first of all, what appens default is
automatically for photos and videos, automatically saves in your uh,
in your photo photo album. I like, that's stupid, Like,
why would you been in ENCRYPTI app and you're automatically
saving that? That's just dumb.

Speaker 25 (02:18:16):
Also, what I hate about What's app.

Speaker 1 (02:18:20):
And II, I know if you had this experience, people
can just a just add you to groups. I've had
bitcoin folks whatever, hell and I'm like, who the hell
is this? Uh? And so it's just way it's I
just I don't believe from I don't believe that what's
app is as safe frankly as Signal is. Also Facebook

(02:18:43):
owns what's App. They bought what's App. Uh So I'm
not a particular fan of what's App.

Speaker 25 (02:18:49):
Now a lot of people.

Speaker 1 (02:18:51):
The only reason I utilize what's app because there because
when I travel internationally, a lot of people who live overseas,
they just rely on what's App. That's the only reason
I haven't. But if i'm community because but if I'm communicating,
now I'm not. I just don't particularly like what's App
at all. I want one hundred percent prefer signal or again,

(02:19:14):
I prefer wire. Go to my iPad. You know this
is you know this, this is one of the websites.
I'm not sure if this is it actually come back
to try to find it. But there's a there's an
encrypted app that's called wire.

Speaker 30 (02:19:27):
I like.

Speaker 1 (02:19:28):
I like wire secure messaging.

Speaker 25 (02:19:31):
And again it's from the Swiss.

Speaker 1 (02:19:33):
Uh.

Speaker 25 (02:19:33):
In the Swiss they this is this is why right
here on Google Play.

Speaker 14 (02:19:38):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (02:19:38):
And they know a little bit about uh secure protections.
Uh that's why people had Swiss bank accounts.

Speaker 8 (02:19:44):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (02:19:44):
So I would prefer Signal or Wire. I don't particularly
like what's App. Again, international calls that's different.

Speaker 11 (02:19:52):
Joy, Yeah, you know, I mean I I did signal
for more secure communications.

Speaker 8 (02:19:59):
What's that?

Speaker 11 (02:20:00):
Because frankly, it's so good if you're a person overseas,
you can.

Speaker 3 (02:20:03):
Also have people call you.

Speaker 11 (02:20:04):
But yes, I hate that I get calls unsolicited in
part because of being on this show, get lots of coffea.

Speaker 3 (02:20:12):
What's that?

Speaker 11 (02:20:13):
Let me ask, as if we were looking for what's
the plan for there to be a black owned, person
of color owned, woman owned.

Speaker 3 (02:20:24):
App of this kind.

Speaker 11 (02:20:26):
We want to have our own, whether we use it
all or not. We want to know that there are
some alternatives.

Speaker 25 (02:20:30):
What is it.

Speaker 9 (02:20:33):
Currently?

Speaker 20 (02:20:33):
I don't know if any that exists that are black owned.
I mean, this space is so void of full black
ownership or black participation. We are building other you know,
arms and programs involved with fan Base, but nothing in
the messaging space. But encryption is definitely something that's part
of what we do with logging in and securing data

(02:20:56):
on fan base itself.

Speaker 1 (02:20:58):
I don't know.

Speaker 20 (02:20:58):
That's a great question, and I'm pretty sure sure that
there are some founders out there that want.

Speaker 34 (02:21:02):
To build that.

Speaker 20 (02:21:03):
I think in this space we need more people to
build alternatives that can strictly focus towards the African American community.

Speaker 1 (02:21:09):
Also, keep in mind and when you talk about these apps,
I mean you're talking about cybersecurity technology as a whole
different field, and the Signal as actually a crowd supported app, right, Isaac.
I mean in terms of how they seek donations to
keep it going.

Speaker 9 (02:21:31):
Now that I'm not aware of.

Speaker 1 (02:21:32):
I know that that.

Speaker 20 (02:21:33):
I don't know if they've done equity crowdfunding, but I
think they do receive donations. I'm not a Signal and
you know, it's so funny. Actually, Signals is something that
I became aware of as of maybe the last year
year or two. It became very very popular because once
I joined Sigma, I started seeing people that I know,
we're using Signal. But it's kind of the same way
with Telegram. I think every now and then, like WhatsApp

(02:21:53):
was the first one, then people started using Telegram, and
then Telegram is not encrypted only through seek chats, so
only the secret chats are encrypted on Telegram, not the
regular messages. That's why I didn't recommend Telegram, because those
messages are encrypted.

Speaker 1 (02:22:07):
Yeah, if you go to my iPad, so Signal is
reminding nonprofit of the Signal Technology Foundation, and yeah, there
are people who actually so Signal is not They don't
charge you people donate the Signal to be before new
for tech updates and things along those lines.

Speaker 25 (02:22:26):
Rebecca, thanks Isaac for being here tonight.

Speaker 10 (02:22:30):
I've used Signal for years from doing campaign work, especially
with sending very sensitive information on the opposition and those things.
But this news story is make me think more about
my social media apps. So can you walk us through
some of the security protocols with users for fan base?

Speaker 20 (02:22:52):
Well, we actually most of most of what we have
is encrypted in store for users data. We're actually launching
sso single sign on tomorrow which is actually authenticated through
a user's email per device, So that's another level and
actually it helps us with logging people in. So it's
more along the lines of not just creating an email
account and then logging into your device. So now you'll

(02:23:15):
be able to log in through your Google or your
Apple account, your iCloud account. And what's important about that
is even when you log in through Apple, it actually
hides it actually hides your email. It creates a unique
kind of like email per login that you use when
you sign in, so you're never logging in with your
actual Apple ID. And we are glad to be able

(02:23:37):
to offer that actually launch us tomorrow we bring that out.
So that's one of those things that I think we're important.
We also have screen recording technology. Excuse me, not go ahead, Yeah,
we have screen recording technology that's actually anti screen record
technology on any of the exclusive content that you put
on fan Base, so that be a live or that
could be long form content, so people cannot screen record

(02:23:59):
that content on a device.

Speaker 1 (02:24:03):
All right, then, so Isaac, also give us an update
on your on the raise for fan Base. What's up.

Speaker 20 (02:24:11):
We are pulling up on eleven million. We are going
to seventeen million dollars. We've raised about seven million in
the last three months. And so once we close thiss
around and I'm gonna say this again, and I know
you've seen me talk about this before, but we really
want to bring Spark available, which is our form of
micro blogging. So if you don't like Blue Sky or
you don't like X, we're looking to you know, we're

(02:24:32):
going to build that in twenty twenty five. But the
fast we closes round, we do that. So we're going
all the way to seventeen million. We're about to cross
ten point eight million in head all the way to
seventeen million. So if you want to invest in fan
base and tell everybody go to start engine, dot com
slash fan Base to invest. Roland has been an enormous
ally and supporter and being on platforms like these help

(02:24:53):
us raise that capital. And the window is absolutely shrinking.
There's probably less than maybe six thousand or so people
that can invest in fan Base at the average investment amount,
and six thousand people watch this program every ten to
fifteen minutes, and it's really an opportunity for us to
actually have equity and ownership in these startups that manage media.
And my warning or not warning, but my message to

(02:25:17):
individuals is that most media is going to be distributed
through large social networks in the future. They're not going
to be standoff websites or they're not going to be
on Apple TV devices, and so whoever owns the infrastructure
of those devices, infrastructure of those platforms that distribute that
content and that media have the opportunity to be billion
trillion dollar companies.

Speaker 9 (02:25:37):
And we've never been in that space.

Speaker 20 (02:25:39):
And so if you want to invest and have equity
in a platform that is emerging, we have over one
point four million users six hundred thousand plus MAU. We
don't know what's going to happen with Twitter coming up.
I'm sorry, we don't know what's going to happen with
TikTok on April fifth. They may strike a deal, they
may not. Twitter a TikTok may go dark again. And
we got about four hundred thousand users in less than.

Speaker 9 (02:25:58):
A week when we did that.

Speaker 20 (02:25:59):
So this is the right time to actually invest in
fan base and the minimum to invest it's three hundred
and ninety nine dollars, So go right now starting dot
com slash fan base and invest.

Speaker 25 (02:26:10):
Well, well, I can't I can't wait for.

Speaker 1 (02:26:14):
A spark to come about, the ability to be able
to like a Twitter like blue Sky function, to have
an all in one.

Speaker 25 (02:26:21):
So his we appreciate it. Thanks a lot, Thank you, folks.
That is an it for us.

Speaker 1 (02:26:27):
Let me thank Jelana, Let me thank Joy. Let me
think Rebecca as well for joining us on today's Pamma
for a great conversation.

Speaker 25 (02:26:35):
Thank you so very much, folks, surely appreciate it.

Speaker 1 (02:26:39):
All of y'all who are watching, don't forget support the
work that we do. I'm telling y'all we got some
great things coming down the pipe. We launched, launched our
new show Course with Bria Baker and Jimmy R.

Speaker 25 (02:26:49):
Burley.

Speaker 1 (02:26:51):
I am looking for a gen Z host for a show.
I'm looking at doing a business show, a health show. Look,
we're actually I agreed today, uh work with a black
owned technology company. We are redesigning Black Start network dot com. Uh.
So we're looking at having that into a news portal,

(02:27:11):
uh to be able to cover a lot more stories.
So that's going on. I was on the phone just
the other day and hold on, don't want to don't
want to show it? Yeah I could. I just want
to let y'all know because some of y'all have some
of y'all been asking me what's going on? What's up
with h what's up with uh the row romobile? What's happening?

(02:27:34):
And and things are moving and so you know, we're
just uh, you know, constantly you know, building over and
over and over again. Y'all know how we do it, uh,
making this thing happen.

Speaker 32 (02:27:48):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (02:27:49):
And so a lot of things are happening, and so
we really are hold on, but God to take this
off one second, you stop this mirroring. Now let me
now send it this way. Okay, now send it this
way now click except so that's coming in and so
appreciate that.

Speaker 12 (02:28:09):
And so.

Speaker 1 (02:28:11):
How do I want to save this? Give me one second,
let me see how I want to save this. So
we have been, like I said, real busy. H So
it's a lot of things that we have going on,
a lot of stuff that we are doing, how we

(02:28:32):
are operating, pieces that we're adding, being able to have
more content, be able to service more ideas. And so
when you support what we're doing, you are really and
truly helping build this black news and information network. You know,
I had some people they were asking me. They were like, well,
you know, if somebody asked me, They're like, hey, you

(02:28:53):
can do entertainment. What about sports? And I say, I
gotta be I gotta be purpoctly honest with y'all. H
we have a ton of that already. There is a
we have a ton of sports. We have a ton
of those things. And I said, is that really what
we need? Do we need more of that? And and

(02:29:15):
for me the answer is no. I'm just being perfectly
honest because I think we have I think we have
too much of that. What I mean by that is,
I don't mind if you want to do sports, that's cool.
With me if you want to focus on that, I
got no problem with that. I just think that we
are so inundated, we are so inundated with sports and

(02:29:36):
things along those lines that it reaches a point in
entertainment and gossip and stuff like that. And I just said, nah,
I just can't. That's just not my cup of tea.
And I just think that it's it's so much of
that out here that what we want to do is
focus just solely on what we do, which is what

(02:29:56):
we want to do.

Speaker 9 (02:29:57):
Well.

Speaker 1 (02:29:58):
Uh, and that's happening. And so, like I say, you know,
we're building Uh people people people thought we would not
be here. They thought they were like, well, this is
gonna happen. It's gonna happen.

Speaker 10 (02:30:10):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (02:30:10):
There's shocked that we're still standing. There's shocked that we're
still progressing. Uh, and we're here. So let me do
this here, so y'all remember, y'all remember in Actually I'm
gonna do a couple other things. Over one second, I
need to air drop a couple of things to my iPads.
I want to really want to show y'all this here

(02:30:31):
because uh, y'all have been very patient in what we
are doing. Uh, you know, you know, we we spend
our time on the road a lot, y'all. Uh, covering
news and covering the things that happened out there. Uh
and uh if it's not easy when you are when
you're going out there, when you're when you're on the

(02:30:52):
road and when you're traveling, and you know, we've had
Remember we we had some issues with our sprinter in
two thousand and twenty two.

Speaker 25 (02:31:04):
We were coming back from Essence, and what happened was.

Speaker 1 (02:31:10):
So this is this right here, give me one second.
I'm showing y'all this for the some of y'all have
seen this. So this is, of course the sprinter that
we had. This was our romomobile. This is how we
traveled all around the country. This is in terms of
how we covered stories. We had marches that we covered
and we you know, we had the cameras mounted on

(02:31:30):
the back of the march. Back of the camera. This
is what it looked like on the inside, and so
we did we did things on the inside of this.
We had all kinds of different stuff like that, and
again we slept in it, we traveled all this sort
of stuff like that. But we were coming back from
Essence and Deshaun was driving and this guy cut him

(02:31:52):
off in Alabama, just outside of Birmingham. And this was
the result completely total our sprinter. He walked through the
front windshield. Praise the Lord. That was the case. And
so then and so we were trying to get a
new one that was a black owned company. I was
working with. That person screwed us over big time. We

(02:32:14):
are dealing with her as we speak. Trust me, my
lawyer is on top of that. And so I'll let
y'all know when that lawsuit is filed, because it will
be filed.

Speaker 25 (02:32:25):
And so I got this.

Speaker 1 (02:32:29):
So this here is the drawing. This is the drawing
of our new vehicle. Here, So are you gonna see it?
In the back, We're gonna have forty eight inches of space.
We're gonna have these two captains chairs right here. Right
above that's gonna be a television monitor. So we're gonna

(02:32:51):
be in a position to where we can mount we
can mount cameras in there as well. We can do
interviews from here. And so you see here this will
be uh a bench here, this will see eleven people.
You see this is a bathroom here as well. Uh,
this is where the fridge and the microwave is gonna
go uh as well. All those things are gonna be there,

(02:33:13):
and so uh this is our control center, control everything,
and of course, uh the front of the vehicle uh
as well. And so uh I just got these drawings
uh this week. It just got in this week, uh
literally two days ago. So uh y'all are seeing it
for the first time.

Speaker 34 (02:33:30):
Uh.

Speaker 25 (02:33:30):
And this will be done next month. Next month.

Speaker 1 (02:33:33):
I'm excited by that by that an opportunity for y'all
uh to actually see it. Let me do this here.
I'm going to air drop some photos. Give me one second.
Let me do this here so you can see some
actual real life photos. Uh.

Speaker 25 (02:33:51):
This is not gonna be our color scheme.

Speaker 1 (02:33:53):
Our color skime is gonna be similar to our previous
uh rowromobile and so we look forward to that.

Speaker 25 (02:34:00):
I can pull this up.

Speaker 1 (02:34:01):
Give me one second, and so this is.

Speaker 25 (02:34:08):
One second.

Speaker 1 (02:34:09):
And so let me tell you why I do this here,
Because we're transparent. When we get a new piece of equipment,
we need something, we share it with you, so you
understand that we don't I don't play when it comes
to the resources. This is this is what's gonna look
like for us going into the vehicle in terms of
the door, the table won't be there. But this is
just an example of it. Uh. And so then when

(02:34:31):
we go so this is the inside, so you see
the benches here, how it works.

Speaker 25 (02:34:37):
You see up front here how you have.

Speaker 1 (02:34:41):
That's where you see the refrigerator and the microwave in
the bar that's right there. You see that lighting that
takes place right there. I don't know if that television
is going to be right there. It might be on
another wall. This here is now I was gonna get
this awning. The problem is it wasn't manual. You actually

(02:35:02):
have to automatically. If the wind kicks up, it automatically retracted,
and so I was like, I don't want that to happen.
Was automatically, So no manual. So that's why I did
not get the awning. But you know that was that
was one of the issues that we had there. Then
this is actually what the Ford f five to fifty

(02:35:24):
looks like. It's thirty five feet. It's larger than the
previous sprinter because I didn't want that fiberglass trunk on
the back. We want to have our luggage compartment and
our our seating compartment all in one vehicle for to
be much sturdier. And so this is what another shot
of it, what it looks like. And then this is
just another shot so you see you have this, So

(02:35:46):
we're not gonna have this curtain here. Matter of fact,
I think a TV is gonna be on this wall.
That's gonna actually be a wall this vehicle. Here, this
is a curtain where you can just walk right up
to where the driver is. But I wanted that walled
off for privacy for the driver. And also we're communicating,
we're just something in the back. Then he can still
be talking up front while we're communicating in the back

(02:36:08):
or shooting something in the back. So that's what that's
all about right there, So y'all, that's it. That's what
we are doing. So we are making this thing happen.
This is a look so this is what look. This
is I think what refrigerator counter will look like. You
see it right here, It was something like this here.
This is what the bathroom be looking like as well.

(02:36:31):
So just giving y'all a peak there so we will
again it will be done next month, so really really
really looking forward to that. So this will allow us
to now when we're traveling broadcasting. It will serve as
our broadcast center because when we're out there on the road, y'all,

(02:36:53):
it's a whole different ballgame when you have an suv
and you're trying to sit here and do stuff versus
everything is all in one vehicle where we can actually
be inside of that vehicle, we can have all of
our equipment broadcasting. And just so you understand what I'm
talking about, you know how things work in the go

(02:37:18):
getterill get me or anthemy give me a fly pack.
One of y'all give me a fly pack. I just
want to show people because y'all need to understand in
terms of how things have how things have changed for us,
and how we how we operate. So this here is
so just so we talk about give me one second,

(02:37:39):
I'm gonna edd up this video because when I when
I tell y'all again, other folks don't do this, and
and I've actually told other people how you need to
be very transparent, uh in what we're doing. So we
talk about how we raise money, so give it right here.
So here's a perfect example. All right. So when we
when we were in Tolsa cover ring, the uh we

(02:38:01):
were in Tulsa covering the one hundred Anniversity the race mask.
Y'all might remember they had a march and we were
live streaming the march, and so this is when we
were in the other sprinter and man, we had all
of this equipment that was packed in here. And actually
I narrated this, so kill the music, pull the audio up,
so y'all can hear me describing what's going on here.

(02:38:24):
La Martin here, Hey, folks, Roller Martin here. So we
are in Tulsa doing our live streaming. I just want
to give y'all a sense of how we roll, how
we flip the roll rodmobile into our live truck unit.
Henry is directing, Anthony is on the camera. You see,
we got that television monitor that's back there. We got
a television monitors up here, and then we're able to

(02:38:46):
have our multiview shot I got, I got, We got
a multiview shot right here, and so he was able
to see up to eight cameras. So when we were
live streaming the march, we had the cameras on the back,
we had the drone, and we had Anthony's camera all
going through. Henry's able to switch right here the entire
time monitoring the audio feeds and going back. So you

(02:39:08):
see right there, we.

Speaker 25 (02:39:08):
Just lost our feed right there.

Speaker 1 (02:39:11):
So I'll be right back, folks. I'll see all that stuff, y'all.
See all that stuff as on the table. It was
like take the shot. That's like you see all of that.
So you see the switcher and you see the monitor
and all that sort of stuff like that. So that's
a whole lot y'all to pack and unpack, and it's
all over the place. Well, because of our viewers, we

(02:39:35):
were able to with a company out of Florida. They
built this what it's called a fly kit. We actually
have two of these here. So literally everything that you
just saw there, everything that you just saw there is
literally all right here. So you see here, you've got

(02:39:55):
the monitor, We've got this full ATM mini switcher. Uh,
that's right here as well. You heard me talking about
the eight inputs. Well, guess what this thing here, All
of that is built in you saw go back to
the photo. So you see on here, you see that

(02:40:15):
little silk, that great thing right there, that's that's like
a converter, and we had to have all these different converters.
Well with this right here, y'all. This thing has converters
already built in eight camera inputs. So literally all of
that stuff you see on on that table, all that

(02:40:36):
stuff you see and and the monitor and the cables
and the laptop and all that sort of stuff, all
that stuff is right here. And this is this was
like five thousand dollars. We got two of these. So
this allows for us to be able to now be
a lot more clean and efficient when we broadcast. And
so when we get robomobile two point zero, uh, allow

(02:41:00):
for us to just really expand the type of mobile
broadcasting we do. And as I said, it will allow
us to be able to have that monsor just like
I said, monitor behind me. We're gonna be able to
have those two captains chairs the monitor behind me, and
we can literally do light it and do interviews right
in the vehicle when we're on the road. And so

(02:41:20):
what I'm laying out, y'all, there's nobody else in black
on media who's doing this. And so when I say
we are so far ahead of where everybody else is,
that's really what it's all about. And so it puts
us in the position so when we're going to be
travel we're gonna be traveling later this year doing some
shows here in Virginia covering the Virginia Legislative racist Again.

(02:41:42):
Now you're in a situation where it becomes your mobile vehicle.
Now you're talking about when we're covering, uh, these marches
and protests and all kinds of stuff, we roll up.
We have full capacity now to be able to do it.
We're limited right now we roll up in the sub.
That's not going to be the case next month or
beginning the first to May. So we're really looking forward
to that. So when you support this show, that's what

(02:42:06):
you also are supporting. I told y'all this is five
thousand dollars right here. We got two of them. The
reality is that vehicle it's about two hundred and seventy
five or two hundred and eighty thousand dollars. That's what
that vehicle is. And so this is simply expands our capability.
So when you bring the Funk Fan Club member, you

(02:42:29):
can say, yo, we made that happen. We made that possible.
And when we travel, folk want to take photos and
stuff like that, and y'all know how we do. All right,
we'll check your name on the roster if your name
was on air. You can get a photo in the vehicle.
But it's really about us being able to expand what
we're doing here at the Black Start Network to cover

(02:42:50):
more things that provide you with way more than what
anybody else is doing. And so those are the plans
that I have for twenty twenty five, twenty twenty six,
and so I watched every dollar like a hawk, so
we can be able to do these things and be
able And I'm telling you right now, we launch this
show six and a half years ago, y'all, there's not

(02:43:10):
a single time the staff get paid late. Folk didn't
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Speaker 12 (02:44:17):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (02:44:17):
Then, of course, if you can also get my book
White Fear, How the Brownie America's making White Folks Lose
their Minds available at bookstores nation while I get the
audio version I read on Audible. And you can also,
of course, as we've had just had Isaac Hayes, download
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Speaker 8 (02:44:53):
Is a real revolution there right now.

Speaker 3 (02:44:58):
Thank you for the points of black them now, a
moment that we have.

Speaker 1 (02:45:01):
Now we have to keep this going.

Speaker 3 (02:45:03):
The video of phenomenal.

Speaker 17 (02:45:06):
Between Black Star Network and Black owned media and something
like CNN.

Speaker 1 (02:45:10):
You can't be black owned media and be scared. It's
time to be

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