Speaker 1: Let's play from the Joint Session of Congress Trump's discussion
on DEI.
Speaker 2: We've ended the tyranny of so called diversity, equity, and
inclusion policies all across the entire federal government, and indeed
the private sector and our military and our country will
be woke no longer. We believe that whether you are
a doctor, an accountant, a lawyer, or an air traffic controller,
you should be hired and promoted based on skill and competence,
not race or gender. Very important, you should be hired
based on merit, and the Supreme Court, in a brave
and very powerful decision, has allowed us to do so.
Speaker 3: Thank you, Thank you, very much, thank you.
Speaker 2: We have removed the poison of critical race theory from
our public schools, and I signed in order making it
the official policy of the United States government that there
are only two genders, male and female.
Speaker 4: So what did all of that say to you?
Speaker 1: And how do you think it landed with the country
in light of everything that we've now come through.
Speaker 5: Yeah, let me cut to the case. The President of
the United States was George Wallace Reborn. What do you
basically said was segregation now, segregation forever? And what he
said to folks very clearly was if you are black
or any other race or creed other than what, you
are not getting your job based on merrit.
Speaker 3: You are not qualified.
Speaker 5: And if you are doing this thing on gender or
race and taking those factors into consideration, you're grabbing some
deserving white guy's job or some deserving white person's whatever position.
You know, getting rid of a guy like C. Q. Brown,
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. What an honored and storied
career in the Air Force, you know, making the rank
of general and being on the Joint Chiefs for by
the way, a term that should have survived being fired,
just like the FBI director and others. We have these
things in place for a reason. Trump and Hagseth and
RFK Junior and all the rest of them that are
just firing anything that's black, brown, or considered diversity. They
are re establishing the order Michael of nineteen fifty four.
This is happening in broad daylight, and they've made it
okay by telling white people.
Speaker 3: It goes back to what Lyndon Johnson said about it.
Speaker 5: If you can take the lowest white man and convincing
that his pockets are being picked by a black man
or someone else at his expense, you can keep his
vote forever.
Speaker 3: I'm paraphrasing, but everybody knows.
Speaker 4: That famous Oh yeah, no, yeah, Johnson did say that. Yes.
Speaker 5: And the point is is that these boys, and I
call these old boys the Old Boys Network, have figured
out how to play this game based on fear. It
has worked from the beginning of the founding of this
Great Republic, when Jefferson and Adams and and Ben Franklin
sat in the room as Jefferson's penning the declaration. In
Jefferson's original declaration, he wants to get rid of slavery.
He's a slave owner, but he understands that the institution
is odious, it shouldn't exist, and that it's not okay.
He tries to blame it on King George. Of course,
they tell him, you can't put that in there because
the South will never tolerate not having slavery. You gotta
deal with the belly of the beast and the roots
of this, Michael. And that's why it keeps coming up. Right,
it's a we're in a dark period. And what Donald
Trump did. That clip you played is distressing to me
because you can see it in the dialogue of what
people now say Oakley on social media.
Speaker 3: They call you the N word, they call you the
B word.
Speaker 5: People feel empowered by Donald Trump's rhetoric to say, Michael's
only there because he's black.
Speaker 3: And Michael didn't earn anything.
Speaker 5: Forget about his John Hopkins degree and his accolades and
his academic credentials.
Speaker 3: He just got it because he's black.
Speaker 1: So let's go to the core that because I can
tell you forty years of that conversation, but it really
does go to the heart.
Speaker 4: What is it it.
Speaker 1: That going back to that moment where you've got two resumes, right,
and you just and you get the job as a
black woman or black man?
Speaker 4: What is it about? I don't know what is it?
Speaker 1: Why would anyone think that you weren't qualified to do
the job that you've just been hired to do.
Speaker 4: You're an air traffic controller.
Speaker 1: So before when planes crashed by under white air traffic controllers,
that was just what versus when plane crashes under the
watchful eye of a person of color, a black traffic controler.
Because that's what the whole d AI thing is about,
you know. They jumped to this conclusion that the air
traffic controller in the helicopter crash, or the pilots in
the helicopter crash, in the air plane crash.
Speaker 4: And it was none of the above were people of color,
and they were not.
Speaker 3: They were all white.
Speaker 5: But you know, you get a little credent like Charlie
Kirk who gets up and says, well, if I see
a black pilot when I get on the plane, I
don't know, because that's DEI.
Speaker 3: And so what they've done.
Speaker 5: Is they polluted the media, whether it's television or whether
it's online, whatever it is in the workplace. And because
of the misinformation and the disinformation, And Michael, one of
the things that's gonna wreck.
Speaker 3: This republic if we live to see our two hundred
and fiftieth.
Speaker 5: Next year, is the lack of civics, the lack of
basic understanding about how government worked, how we elect people,
why we elect them, what articles one, two and three say,
and the basic lack of understanding of racist country and racism,
which is why critical race theory Derek Bell came up
with that which simply means that there are systemic structures
that still exist. To your point, with the two resumes
that will always favor the majority and I think that
this wokeness thing is something we should talk about to Michael,
because it goes back to your point of what do
I do with these two resumes. Well, if diversity, equity,
inclusion is something that we practice at Potscow and I'm
a costco exec, then I'm going to look at my
workforce numbers and say, I've got really good people. But man,
I've got ninety nine percent of my managers in the
warehouse are white guys. I've got we can't pool here
of women and some people of color who clearly are qualified.
Speaker 3: I would like to bring those.
Speaker 5: People into my workforce because people that look like that
shop at my store and spending their dollars at my store.
The Montgomery bus boycott is all about. That's what it's
about when we talk about inclusion.
Speaker 3: If you want my damn money Target.
Speaker 5: And Walmart and Amazon, then you better have people who
look like me.
Speaker 3: Working at your company.
Speaker 5: Or why should I spend my money there if you
don't promote people who have my life experience too.
Speaker 1: So that that is that is all all spot on, accurate,
dead to the point. But here's here's what I've heard
as as a response to that. Well, these these you know,
these stores, these shops, the places where people spend their money.
They they've always been white run. Yeah, you may have,
you may have a corner store in a neighborhood that's
either mixed or majority black. There was no need to
hire black people to work in that store at a
management level. Yeah, they could come and clean the floor
at the end of the evening, or they could you know,
stock my shelves. But there was no correlation between who
owned the store, who managed the store, and the community
that store was in. And so the pushback is that's
politically correctness, that's political correctness.
Speaker 4: That because well, well.
Speaker 1: That's that's kind of what I pointed out. But I'm
just you know, they're thinking.
Speaker 5: Because follow that through you and our lawyers. Let's let's
go back to our logic and our first year of
law school.
Speaker 3: What that means is only white people should run things, uh,
manage things. You you others can do the grunt work.
Speaker 5: Because that's the way it was in nineteen fifty four.
Speaker 4: But it's not even the grunt work.
Speaker 1: It's I know, everybody else you others, black, brown, gay, lesbian, whatever,
you're going to shop in my store, you're going to
come to my store and let me give you a
modern day example of what I'm talking about. I live
in Prince George's County, Maryland, once the wealthiest black county
in the country.
Speaker 4: It is no longer.
Speaker 1: The county next door has now moved because black folks
have moved right, and they've taken their money and they've moved.
Speaker 4: But it's still a wealthy black county, no doubt.
Speaker 1: We don't have a place or place is in this
county that facilitate shopping and restaurants that you see in
the surrounding white counties.
Speaker 3: I mean like Tyson's Corner in Moude, Virginia.
Speaker 1: Tyson's Corner, but Feesda Maryland, Minneapolis, Maryland, yep et cetera.
Speaker 4: You wrote a piece that I think sort.
Speaker 1: Of sets sets this up when Donald Trump came out
and talked about and showed the little the graphics, the
Time magazine graphic of him as a king, King Donald
the First, and you you kind of put the question
out there, so what does this all look like with
King Donald the First?
Speaker 5: Well, I really talk about it in the context of
the Founding Fathers again, as we approach that sessmentinnial next year,
in twenty twenty six, two hundred and fifty years Lord Willing,
and obviously this country was formed, these United States, in
rebellion to a king. You're an authoritarian who felt that
he could come and take your tea, take your money,
take your family, take your house, and that you owed
him homage across the ocean, that he could send his
Hessian soldiers or his at any time. They could kick
in your door and he could tell you when and
where and how to.
Speaker 3: Think and what to do.
Speaker 6: And they were like, wait a minute, no, that's not
who we want to be, where individual colonies were independent,
and so fast forward to twenty twenty five, we have
fifty sister states.
Speaker 5: They are sovereign under the Tenth Amendment to those powers
not vested in the federal government. But when you look
at what Donald Trump is done with putting Elon Musk Michael,
he's unelected, he is unsentate, confirmed.
Speaker 3: I don't know why he's there.
Speaker 5: I don't understand it, but he has been given power.
He sleeps at the White House, he's on Air Force one.
He comes on the law with his mother and his child.
In fact, you saw the press conference with the child, right, Yeah,
Donald Trump to shut your mouth.
Speaker 3: Right, you don't belong.
Speaker 4: Here, right, You're not the President of the United States.
So I guess is.
Speaker 5: That speech last night, that Joint Session State of the Union,
whatever you want to call it, he laid out very
clearly that he is the executive has all the power
vested in him. He's going to take Greenland one way
or another. I couldn't believe he said it, but he did.
And he's got tariffs against you know, Mexico, Canada.
Speaker 3: The markets are tanking. I came up with.
Speaker 5: This King Donald first because he's acting just like King
George the third. And that's how King George the third
got his ass handed to him by a bunch of
ragtag colonists who beat him down. And I think the
American people are waking up to a horror that they
didn't anticipate, even those who voted for him, because this
USAID money and I h money in grants cancer research.
You give us a child with cancer who we all
are grateful for and applaud and are happy that he
is well, but then you cut cancer money so that
other people can heal and be well. Right, it's a
shell game with Donald. He's a king elon musk is
the court gesture, I guess and you know, I love
your thoughts somewhere you see us right now as a republic,
because I think we're in very, very, very I think.
Speaker 1: We're in trouble, and I think we're in trouble on
a number of fronts.
Speaker 4: At the same time.
Speaker 1: You have certainly the domestic disruption, no doubt, then you
also have the foreign entanglements and between Israel and the
European and European entanglements with Ukraine. And I think in
many respects that was kind of manifest in how that
meeting with President Zelenski went in the Oval Office, the
big setup. It was very clearly it was contrived to.
Speaker 4: Go the way it went.
Speaker 1: Jd Vance who anyone, and I've you know, a lot
of our mutual friends have worked in the Oval and
certainly my COHO Simone Sanders Townsend, having worked there with
Kamala Harris, was one of the first to say, when
you're on the couch in the Oval Office, you don't speak,
even if you're the Vice President of the United States,
you do not open your mouth unless you are given
permission by the president to speak. Case in point, if
if Zelensky had looked directly, which he did at one
point and ask jd Vance the question, what do you
mean what are you talking about? When you jd Vance
under the normal circumstances does not have permission to respond
to President Zelensky unless it's given to him by President Trump.
Called protocol, folks, It's called protocol. And the fact that
he went full on maga in the middle of that,
he remember, folks, the first forty minutes of that conversation
was a normal conversation. It turned when when the trigger
language or the trigger words were used last question, and
that's when jd Vance showed his ass.
Speaker 4: So you see this sort of set up.
Speaker 3: You see Rubio sitting.
Speaker 4: There like a little Rubio. God bless Marco.
Speaker 1: I've known Marco a long time. I just and and
you know, as I said to a lot of our
mutual friends, I said, it's a shame to watch someone
like him get punked the way he is by Donald Trump,
because he's a Dei higher as a number of them are.
A number of the people are a di I Howard.
But the interesting thing is it's something I knew from
my experience with Trump, and it's something that Michael Cohen
confirmed from his lived experience because he got punked too.
And Trump has this tendency. Once he knows your weakness
and you didn't wind up on he gets you pulled
into his orbit. He will always use that weakness against
you and make you do things and say things that
are counter to your core beliefs or whatever you once
held as a view. Marco was one of the leading
senators supporting Ukraine, one of its greatest defenders. He along
with John McCain, God rest him. We're at the fore
front when Crimea fell, warned about Ukraine, talked about Russian
encouragion and invasion in a very authentic way. And now
Donald Trump has got him sitting there as the key
piece of deconstructing Ukraine on behalf of Vladimir Putin. That's
the ultimate punkin. And so you have these tableaux that
are playing out, Sophia, and it really makes you ask yourself,
what does it mean not just for the US Ukraine relationships,
but to your point in your article of King Donald
the first, how does this how does.
Speaker 7: This this illusion that he's creating impact the way our
adversaries and our allies respond to us.
Speaker 3: Well, you know, Michael You've been doing this a long time.
Speaker 5: I've been doing this a long time, and I have
to be honest to see what you just outline. Take
someone like Marco Rubio, Senator, someone who at one point
had integrity, and to jd.
Speaker 3: Vance all of them, all of them.
Speaker 5: It reminds me you're a man of faith. I'm a
woman of faith. It reminds me of the Apostle Paul
in Roman seven seven. You know what a wretched man
I am. The very thing I don't want to do
I find myself doing. I feel like Trump has this
power that is nefarious.
Speaker 3: It has an evil hint to.
Speaker 5: It in a way that like authoritarians, like tyrannical monarchs
of old, which we can point to many of them
throughout history, they destroy, they take good people, they flip
them to the dark side, if you will, or turn
them against their own people.
Speaker 3: And we're seeing that.
Speaker 5: And so I really give a lot of respect to
Europe in this past week for stepping up from the Bridge,
to the French, to the Italians, to every other NATO country.
Speaker 3: That I think really got a wake up call Michael
after that oval off of visit, I.
Speaker 5: Think people were shook by that worldwide. That dance, I agree,
really gone down a hole.
Speaker 1: To your point, you have the you have the Kremlin.
I keep referring to the Kremlin because that's what they are.
This is the mind and mindset in the framing of
Vladimir Putin because he is old KGB.
Speaker 3: So let's very good at it.
Speaker 4: It's very good at it.
Speaker 1: But they put out a statement saying they are happy
to see that US and Russia foreign policy is now aligned. America,
wake your ass up. Understand exactly when the Russian has
put out a statement that says our foreign policy and
we all know what their foreign policy is and the
US foreign policy, and you know what our foreign policy
has been. Right, going back to Romney who labeled it
in the twenty twelve elections, they are our enemy.