Speaker 1: And now for a moment of.
Speaker 2: Clarity, there's a question of citizenship on the table. How
are we proving citizenship? Well, the real question on the
table is if even a question, let me connect dots. Yes,
we only want certain white people to vote.
Speaker 1: I mean you can, you can come out, I want
to say, I'm sitting here at this tableelevision show. I
just wanted. I just wanted this conversation to marinate the
way it has, because I want America to appreciate exactly
where we are at this moment, and and it is
so profoundly un American what we see playing out. I
cannot believe I have greater faith in the American people,
uh than Donald Trump clearly does, certainly than any Republican
in the United States Congress right now. If they behind
this crap. It's bad enough that they've kept their mouth
shut on the birth on the birthright citizenship case that
the Supreme Court is can be arguing tomorrow. But they
know damn well how they elect Republicans elect, how they
have Democrats who support them vote for them, how they
have independent voters vote for them, And they don't give
a damn about the color of their skin. Where they're
from They just want to make sure they get to
the ballot box and vote. And ma'am, here's your ballot,
mail it in. And so for this crap right now, now,
listen to this man sit his behind in that Oval
office and pontificate the crap out of his mouth about
our system America. You got to get fed up at
some point. So I was just letting this marinate for
a moment. So y'all really understand what's that risk here?
Because if you think somehow the order the Department of
Homeland Security working with the Social Security Administration creating the
list of verified US citizens, what if you're dumb ass
ain't on the list. What if you aren't on the list,
what you're gonna do? And also what if you are
and what if you want.
Speaker 2: Allow your information? Right?
Speaker 1: So this is the piece for me. When when you
allow this government to do what it is doing, at
what point do you say, Donald Trump, we got this.
I don't am I missing something? No? But I mean
you're not missing anything.
Speaker 2: I mean, look again, he's trying to build it out
for himself. He's look like you say, when you're organizing,
I spent almost my whole life organized, right, You're in
the field. You're talking to voters, and what you're trying
to do is just get them to vote. You're trying
to get them to make a plan, make a plan
to vote, you know, and get do everything that you
can to get out and vote. He's just putting up barriers.
He wants to selectively choose who gets to vote in
this country and when, and probably from his perspective, he
wants them to look a lot more like him than
he does anything else.
Speaker 1: Catch Michael Steele on the weeknight Monday through Friday at
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