Wake that ass up in the morning. The Breakfast Club Morning.
Everybody's DJ n V, Charlamagne the gud We are the Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in the building. Absolutely, we have Jasmine Crockett.
Welcome.
Thank you so much. I'm excited to be here with y'all.
She's a US representative from Texas thirtieth Congregational District, a congressional district.
I should say, how are you to welcome?
I'm good.
I was just having a conversation about you. I mean, I was talking about good sister Amanda Seals, and she brought you.
Yes, yes, yes, yes, my sister. Yeah, she's going hard. Amanda is really doing the people's work as far as I'm concerned, right, because Amanda has leaned in and said, listen, there's certain things that I don't know about politics. So if I don't know these things, I got to make sure that I'm communicating to the people that follow me so that they can better be informed about what's going on. So she will pick up the phone and give me a quick call when she's got questions, because.
I feel like you need people like her to be translators, right. I've always felt like the messaging from the Democratic.
Party sucks, you know, that's the nice way of putting it.
Yeah, okay, she's been able to translate it up in a very digestible way for people.
Absolutely, And you know, it's just one of those things I say, the Democrats love to write a thesis, yes, when really when it comes to the Republicans, they like, what are not cards? Like what are cliff notes? And that's what we need to do. People are busy trying to figure out how they're going to keep a roof over their head, keep food in their bellies, keep yas in the car, and we're giving out what literally looks
like bills half the time. We're telling them, you know, thousands of pages of stuff, and people are saying, give me the top lines because I got to get to work. And so I think it is important to make sure that you have really good ambassadors that are delivering the message, but they are also delivering it in a very accurate way, because we know that there's a ton of misinformation and disinformation that's out in these streets.
I always tell people that sometimes you have to explain it like you're talking to a child, because some times people don't know on the don't necessarily understand politics.
Absolutely, and when we're.
In school, a lot of times we take those classes just to get through it because we're more concerned with our.
Major Absolutely, what got you into politics?
Oh Lord, clearly I need my head checked. But no for me.
You know, I actually practiced law, so I've been licensed I think at this point for about eighteen years in Texas, Arkansas and federal courts. And as I was walking into court, whether it was the civil rights cases or the criminal defense cases, I will walk in and I would say, this system is not working. Like when you walk in and you know that you're going to lose because the laws that are on the books don't work for people that look like me and you. Then I'm like, something
has to be done. And maybe it's because the lawmakers just don't understand what they're doing. Now I found out that they absolutely understood. Yeah, they know what they're doing. I was the green one, but that's what drove me into politics. And my very first race for the state House in Texas, oddly enough, a man by the name of George Floyd and ended up being killed between my
primary and my runoff. And when I was running initially I said, we're in the midst of a modern day civil rights movement, and people thought that I was like being extra when I said that, But ultimately, like when he ended up being killed, I'm like, this is what I'm talking about. Like, if we don't start to understand how these systems work, who puts the police chief in charge?
Who writes the policies for the police chiefs? Who makes the laws that allow for them to kill us and then face no retribution?
Like who does that?
And so when I ended up participating in so many of the protests, and when I would go out there, I was like, what's the best role I can play keeping people out of jail? So I represented over six hundred people pro bono during those protests, and no one ended up with a conviction that I helped.
And so I made sure we got people out of jail.
I made sure I told them what the law was, and I made sure I told them, now, how do we go from policy or how do we go from protesting to policy? And ultimately that's why I think I was successful, And I think that you know, we have to have more people that didn't grow up saying I'm going into politics. But we have to have more people that say, you know what, something is wrong with my community and I need to step up to the plate.
So what's your job in politics? And somebody will say, well, what is Jasmin Crocott's job? What do you do?
Black congresswoman?
Yeah, that's what I am. No, I'm just kidding with that.
No.
So my job is to write the laws. We write the laws for the entire country. But beyond that, the biggest thing that we do is we hand out money.
We are the ones and that's what we're not doing right now.
When everybody's like, oh, the government is about to shut down, what does a shutdown mean? That means that we're about to stop delivering money. So we are supposed to appropriate all the money. So when people say, hey, we got to pay our taxes, whether it's corporate taxes, personal taxes, whatever moneys we actually collect into the treasury. We have to then disseminate that money. So when people are saying, hey, we don't have money come into our community, actually you
may have mo money come into your community. The question is what are the people that are in receipt of.
That money doing with the money.
Right, So, in a state like Texas, a lot of times we say, listen, Greg Abby, he not about this life.
And so what we need to do is work around him.
We need to make sure that those county executives and make sure that those city elected officials get the money, because we can't trust our governor to do what he's supposed to do as we appropriate that money. So a lot of times it's a combination. You know, most people want to show up for one race, right like they'll show up for the presidential they'll vote for president, and
then they don't show up for city council. Chances are somebody like me, I'm collecting the money and I'm sending it down and I'm saying, hey, this is what it needs to be used for. Or for instance, one of the great bills that most people haven't really zoned in on that the Democrats as well as the President signed into law was the Infrastructure Act. So we've all saw, we all saw what happened in Flint, Michigan. We all know what happened. We also know what happened down in Jackson,
Mississippi with their water. So this administration, that Biden Harris administration said, listen, what we're going to do is make sure we start addressing environmental injustice issues, whether it's the air, the water, or the soil, because it's literally killing people every single day that look like us.
And so what they've done is.
It's something real. What you said just now is absolutely true. I understood what you said. How come Democrats can't see flint. We're gonna fix the dirty water Flint. We're gonna make sure y'all got clean with flint. We made sure y'all got clean water. This bill makes sure y' now.
I agree with that they not doing that, but it is a combination of things. Right, So.
The presidential administration, they gotta do their part, but also congressional So when I show up like I've delivered millions of dollars to my community, my community is a majority majority minority district. So almost eighty percent of my district is black or brown. And so what I've done is we got the big fake chicks. We call all the media listen, we do.
Like keep it simple.
I mean, seriously, you got to keep it simple.
Right.
I bring my EPA administrator out and that's y'all are getting his money because of this bill and because of the president and the Vice president and I tell them, and we're doing amazing things. But the thing is we as members, we also have to carry some of that water because it's only so many places that the president and the vice president can get to, right, So it is a team effort. I just don't know that, like we all get on the same page.
I don't know we have issame.
By the way. That's that right. There is such a simple thing a president could say or a vice president could say, so people can point to and say this is what the administration. I don't need to know all the minutia been. I don't even know everything in there. The wall are getting clean exactly, that's it. Yeah.
And the bill was like over a thousand pages exactly exactly right, Yeah, and you just need the top lines.
So we spoke about the president. What's your thoughts on Biden.
You know a lot of black people are not efforting them right now, not riding with them necessarily, don't even want to vote on them.
I know, I know it's stressing me out. It's stressed me out. Listen, it's stressing me out because you know, I have direct access to the president obviously, and I almost wish everyone could have a real sit down with the president, like a one on one and a real sit down with the vice president. I'm gonna be real because it's just one of those things that most people don't have access to. And I'm gonna be honest with
you about this. Trump was amazing at propaganda. I mean, when we got the stimulus checks, they were delayed because he said, I want to I want to put my signature on it.
Now. Trump wasn't the one that said, hey, this is what we need to do for the people.
It was the Democratic House, the Democratic Senate to pass the legislation.
He didn't even initiate it.
He just signed it into law, right, But he was like, this is a good opportunity. The problem is that it's exactly what you just said, Like, we need a president that's gonna go around and brag on himself. He needs to be bragging about the fact he and his VP, who graduated from an HBCU, needs to be bragging about the fact that they actually have given more money to HBCUs than Trump ever did.
But you know what Trump did.
He sat back, he took a picture with all the HBCU presidents. So everybody's like, oh, Trump gave no no, no, no, no, no, Let's let's be real about this. This actually was the result of a bill that was signed into law by a Republican by a Bush and ultimately this was a reauthorization. In the reauthorization, he actually wanted to zero out the HBCUs. But a black woman out of North Carolina, my colleague almost she said, oh, this is not what we gonna do,
and so she fought for it. She was able to get the money back in So once he signed it back into law, he was like, well, let's take a picture, Like we have to do some of the gimmicky things, the things that will allow people to see and visualize.
But let me tell you something, it's just wax shit.
Like when they kneeling down and kN t cloth, you know in Congress, Like that's nobody asked for that.
I wasn't part of that son.
With that, you know what I'm saying, because I do try to have conversations, you know. I just had a conversation about Cardi b and her and what she has said like behind closed doors. I think that is one of the benefits of having some of the younger members or the members that haven't really been ingrained in politics like that, because we can translate and say, hey, we need to work on the messaging on this, because this is what's out in the streets. But back to the president,
we have two options. We have one person that, hey, a lot of people say, isn't perfect. And this is what we do in this country is we are always searching for perfection, whether it's in our preacher at church or whether it's in our president.
And the reality is that none of us is perfect. I promise you.
While I believe that my district loves me, there are some people that definitely don't agree with me on certain things.
That's just what it is in life.
We don't agree with our spouses on everything in life, right, and so we don't necessarily have to agree with this president on everything. But let me tell you something, he at least is not a danger. My concern is the fact that Trump is an actual threat and danger to us, whether it's our democracy. This is somebody that sat back and said on day one, I'm going to be a dictator. Do we not understand what it means to have a dictatorship like in this country, in the Land of the Free.
And let's talk about like when we really look at his homies on the Republican side. We've seen the dysfunction in the Republican House, We've seen what they want to do.
All they have is chaos.
And so until somebody comes at me and tells me, hey, this is a policy issue that Trump is trying to bring forward, he ain't brought no policy to the table. He won't even debate because he knows that he doesn't have a stance. The only thing that he's trying to do is make sure he can stay out of prison. And listen, I can appreciate the hustle, I can't, right, but the reality is that we have always been subjected to the prison system in this country, and he should
not be above the law. And that's the only reason that he's trying to get back. So I know, I mean, I get it, but you're like, it's not everything you.
Said, but it's still the Democrat's fault. And I'll tell you why. There's also a third option. The third option is the couch. You got. You got Trump, the criminal, Biden the coward, and you got the couch. I'm a couch.
I argue that the couch means the Trump wins.
Yeah, so I argue that, like, it may be three options, but we still we got two out of three comes up with Trump, and I think that that's a problem.
And for everyone, you.
Don't think Biden is mentally. That's the reason they say that is because we've seen so many things. It seems like early signs of dementia, right, And anybody who's been around anybody that has dementia, when you start seeing things like that, it brings you back to those moments. Now when he's not in those moments, Yeah, he seems fine, but it's those moments that scare you because anybody that knows somebody in dementia, it comes fast and it comes
without with time. So you're talking about another four years and four years, you know, showing.
Getting no younger. He needs to just step aside. Three.
He's not getting any younger. None of us are getting any younger.
I might, I might add.
I'm gonna say, I'm gonna say this.
I'm gonna say that, does you need to step aside? No, I'm not gonna say that you need.
We gonna lose. We gonna lose. We s'all don't lose if we don't have Joe.
He said, there's fifty other people in the Democratic Party he thinks could beat Trump. He said that. So if there's fifty other people he thinks he could be, that could be Trump.
He needs to step d Listen, I'm telling you all this is first of all, it's not gonna happen because we have deadlines, like, for instance, my file and deadline is going to be on Monday in Texas.
Like, you don't have time, you don't have time, step down.
They have to change the rules.
No no, no, no no no no no no no no no no no.
He will still be on the ballot.
It's just like people die and still end up on the ballots because like, the rules are the rules. So the reality is that we don't have time to even get somebody onto all these ballots, not to mention the amount of money that it takes to run campaigns, like it is just not realistic. And and here's the deal. We have a president that has accomplished so much, and so right now out everybody like, well, forget the accomplishments. They need to start selling and telling, in a very
short sentence, exactly what they've accomplished. When is it that somebody is saying like excelled, and then people say, well, step aside because you old, because that's essentially what it amounts to when I hear you on what you're.
Saying, old has nothing to do with it is We talked about him not getting younger.
For me, I said, it's the dementia of what I've seen like this, like my dad dementia.
It's early dementia of what I see. Well, eighty eight years old, he's considered old.
But he has no signs of dementia. He's he can run, he could jump, he could do everything, he can think straight. But my mother in law had who passed away from dementia, was a totally different story, and it was one of those things we could have a great conversation on Monday.
On Tuesday, she didn't know who I was.
I'm taking the old president versus fascism any day.
Oh that part, as well as when do we get to the point in a country where we think that it's okay to have somebody who's not facing one but ninety one and ninety one felony, Like I mean, like seriously, like there is no so to me, I don't understand why it's even a debate because there used to be a time in this country you couldn't even be.
Accused of something way less significant.
But I will tell you about your comments on the dimension because I don't want you to think that I'm ducking it at all. I've not seen anything that makes me think that. What I think people forget is the fact that the president actually has overcome a speaking impediment. So people forget the fact, they forget Joe's story, they forget the fact that he actually has a speaking impediment that he actually went through I think speech therapy to
try to overcome. And I personally believe it's not a matter of like you're able to necessarily change that.
You learn how to work around it.
And I believe what people are seeing is a result of the fact that he is getting older and those skills that he's used to kind of overcome some of that is starting to seep back in.
That is personally what I believe that I'm seeing.
But as somebody who listen, I just tell my staff because they got an event that they want to do, and I was like, y'all know, I hate these picture lines, right, Like they're probably mad that I just said that on the radio, But like we have to do these.
Picture lines there line.
Basically, you know, when you have any event, then everybody wants to take yes, and so you don't get to enjoy the event because you're just standing there. You're taking pictures the whole time everybody else is mingling. So the White House I think has over thirty something Christmas parties, absolutely, and we just had the members Christmas party. So they separate them into different The media had one. The members just had ours on Monday.
Black media because I went to the Black media one last.
Year, so.
I love it. I lived for it.
They're they're a good time. You should you should do it, just just to okay fae. So anyway, So but literally they were standing there for hours, and I remember somebody like staff was like President, do you do you need a break?
He was like nope, I'm good.
Like he never got to mingle, and he he was up there for I couldn't do it.
I don't like to do it for an hour.
So those are the things that people don't see, is the behind the scenes and how I mean, this man wakes up early, he works late, and you know, I remember the only time I've been into the Oval office, he brought a small group of us in and he was talking to us. And when I tell you that he can remember stuff back way way long ago, and I probably can't tell you what happened about two three years.
Ago like that. I mean, I can't give him credit for that.
I mean, I'm just saying, like he.
Really memories, I'm not gonna do it.
I also want to point out why everybody want to talk about our president a is oh we got old versus all.
I just want to I just want to be clear about that.
Okay.
The problem they both AARP like I just let's let's be honest.
And I talked about this on the Daily Show this week. The other problem is Democrats have demonized every Republican candidate forever. Because I can read Member everybody was yes, everybody was the person that's going en democracy. Everybody was the person that was going usher in fascism. Everybody was everybody. They've demonized everyone, John McCain, Mitt Romney, anyn George Bush. I remember when George Bush literally was like the anti Christ to people. I know. Now him and Michelle hugged up
every time we see them. So it's like now when there is actually a threat nobody believes you, because that's all Democrats ever sell, is fear.
Well, I think that the Republicans sell fear more than anybody on the other side. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean I will agree. I think that what we've seen is we've seen politics shift, right, So we never thought we would have a Trump and so yeah, in that time, a Mitt Romney or George Bush was extreme, right, But now we've got people that have literally said no to reproductive access. We have people that are under federal
indictments or felony indictments. I mean, my Attorney general is out here telling doctors that he's about to prosecute them if they abide by a court order to save a woman's life. Like this is what we're living in. So no, it is definitely next level when you're talking about the fact that people who should be in prison who haven't faced their charges for over seven years, are going out and trying to send other people to prison who are
actually trying to do their jobs. Right now, doctors are facing up to life in prison in the state of Texas if they have anything to do with abortion, even if it is medically necessary. Because you had idiots that don't understand anything about medicine, writing the laws for doctors to follow, and the doctors are like, we don't understand what this is. Yeah, so I mean it is extreme.
I just think, y'all, I think Democrats became the party who cried wolf.
And you may be right.
I wasn't in politics back then. I mean, you may be right. I mean I was voting, I was paying attention, and I agree. I never felt the angst. It's more so the angst that got me into politics.
It was the fear.
I remember when Trump got elected, I was researching what it would take for me to get my dual citizenship between the United States and Canada, because I was like, I don't know if I'm gonna need to get up and out of it.
Do you think I'm doing the past year? What have I've been saying in this room for the longest. I mean, I'm not even exaggerating, like.
I'm not either. No, no, no, no, I'm not either.
I mean that was that was a fear moment for me, and a number of my colleagues, especially in my current class, were like that's when they got engaged and was like, wait a minute, ain't nobody coming to save us. I'm gonna have to step up and save us, you know what I'm saying. So, like like I need people to understand that, like none of us is perfect, we will never give you the policies that you believe are perfection
on this planet. It's just not going to happen, especially because Democrats do believe.
In governing right.
In governance, that means that at some point in time, you probably have to compromise. So we will never give you exactly what you want, But what we will do is do our damnedest to make sure that you were safe in this country. And you know, people don't understand from a foreign like I really just want people just one day to sit down and google some foreign policy stuff. From a foreign policy stance, I am very concerned about
our safety in this country. People weren't given to Reville a hard time as it relates to our military, and the Republicans only decided to step up once they were like, okay, this is reaching a fever pitch. We just had to authorize four hundred promotions. People don't understand. In the military, you reach a point in which the only way you can be promoted is if the Senate confirms you to that promotion. If you don't get promoted, then you're out.
We would have lost some of our top brass at a time in which we have conflicts that are breaking out everywhere. That is a problem, that is a national security problem. People don't understand. I know people are all upset about funding Ukraine. I know they upset, right, but they don't understand that we have the authority to send our stores to Ukraine the stuff that we had to protect us. So right now we need to replenish. So a bunch of that money is to replenish our own
stores of ammunition right now. So it's not just about it looks like because the top line is funding, funding, funding, and it's not kind of getting into the minutia.
But we need to make sure we're safe.
And people need to also understand that if Putin is successful in Ukraine, then he next most likely goes to maybe Poland. If he goes to Poland, that means that our troops, our husbands, our brothers, our sons, our sisters, our mothers, our cousins, our aunties, they're the ones that are actually going to go into wars.
So we are talking about no, they already they already signed up.
We're about to We're about to send our service members in. So like this is a matter of like keeping us safe as well, like we would rather spend money and say, hey, you want to defend yourself, Yes, we want to see you take down this army.
You're absolutely right, But people want to eat right now.
I agree with it.
If I'm in St. Louis, South Carolina, Texas and money.
I don't disagree, roof, I don't disagree. I don't care about I agree with all of it. But let me tell you who the enemy today is. It's still a Republicans. I sit on the Agriculture Committee right now. We have the Farm Bill. The Farm bill is where we get the snap benefits from. Guess who trying to cut the snap benefits? Republicans? Guess how much people? I just want you all to guess how much do people get a day for snap benefits?
I forgot.
No, no, no one person a day to eat? How much do they get?
And there's.
A day they get six dollars a day, six dollars a day. It's all that they're getting and Snap benefits. And I'm having a fight with Republicans that are like it's too much money.
Will they buy popcorn?
You can't do nothing with the money in the first place. They're like, we need to balance the budget. So I just want to be clear. We can walk and chew gum six dollars a day. We can feed people in this country for sure, And honestly, we need to be making sure that we're increasing the amount that that they're getting because we know how much food is costing. But right now I'm trying to hold the line and just get the dag on six dollars a day. We have the money to do it all. The problem is we
pick people against each other. We say, well, we can't feed y'all because we're sending money off to warp. No, we can actually do it both, and we are demanded to do it both.
We have twelve appropriations bills.
The Republicans can't get none of them passed because the extremists say, we want to cut it all for people that are complaining about housing.
We had a bill.
You know what, when they put their appropriations up, they wanted to cut thirty percent of hood's where you get your housing vouchers from.
Why Democrats don't fight for this publicly though, Like like, we can't y'all can't just fight in Congress.
I mean, I guess it's not sexy. I don't know. I don't know why.
I don't know, because it looks like Democrats are always just laying down and rolling over and letting Republicans just run all over there. That's why you go viral when you call a gop out and call them a bunch of asshole Republicans, which you did. Yeah, why did you do that?
Because they are what you mean?
I know, But what was the specific thing that made you that triggered you that Dan said, no, I'm tired of it.
Yeah, you know when I sit there, the Oversight Committee is where all the drama is. This is where the impeachment inquiry is, and you know, it's insulting that we have idiots like Marjorie Sayley Green, Lauren Bobert, Paul got Star, Jim Jordan's. I mean, you just name all of the nonsense Republicans and they sit on this committee and they sit there so high and mighty, and they talk noise constantly, and they're like, oh the Biden crime family.
And I'm like, I'm sorry, have you met the Trumps?
Like, like, who is it this in court every single day or every other day with something, whether it's the fraudulent businesses that he's run, or whether it's his criminal issues on the state level, on the federal level, and you're trying to make something out of nothing?
Is this what we're doing?
Just getting dited on nine new.
Taxa Okay, all right, so we are okay, so we're gonna go down. Listen, listen, listen, Listen to me. Now I'm gonna say, okay, crime okay, well, well, okay, there we go, because I'm the criminal defense attorney.
But I will say this.
He has been charged for paying his taxes late or filing his taxes late.
Not not now. Now, I don't know.
Maybe all your listeners that are listening in now have always paid their.
Taxes on time.
Yeah, but I've seen too many of us go to jail for that.
For taxes.
Hell yeah, well you don't normally listen, people don't normally get caught up.
They he never paid.
But here's the deal.
I think there was a promise accountant did something wrong, and I thought it went lead acounting totally did something wrong.
So he was at his counting.
But but but what I'm talking about is like everyday people. There are people every day people that don't get charged with this, like this is very rare. Like most of the time you sit down and they say, okay, I got busy or okay I didn't have this, or okay, my accounting this or whatever, and they work it out and Hunter has paid his due. And listen, as a criminal defense attorney, I got a lot of parents that would be in jail right now if they was getting
caught up for what their kids did. So I'm not saying that Hunter is guilty or not guilty. What I am saying is that he's presumed innocent undeal right.
So that's that part.
But that's his son, right, So like, how is it that his son who he did not put into position? Unlike Trump, he took his whole family and was like y'all gone and come into the administration. We know that his son in law did not have the ability to get a top security clearance. I don't know why or what was in his background that prevented him, and Trump overrode that.
That was a national security threat in and of itself.
And even as we talk about again these conflicts that currently exist, we know that this dude was keeping this stuff in his bathroom at Marie Lago and on the stage and all this other kind of stuff.
He did.
He did have them right, But what happened when they asked for him back, he gave him up.
And in fact, I know people do that argument, and he gave him back, but he still took him from where he took. No.
No, and I don't I don't disagree with that, but a lot of people take things home a senator.
Ye.
No, the and the stuff that you're gonna have as a senator is not gonna be the same stuff that you're gonna have as a president.
That's the other thing. Like the level is like there's levels to this.
So the things that he's gonna have as a senator are not gonna be the same level.
But the reality is that people do take stuff home.
Now, I try to leave everything at you know, work, and most of the time I don't get anything that's that's sensitive. Anyway, when we go in and we're giving briefings, they're like, we're taking your phones, we're taking your head.
Sets, were taken everything, we're taking your watch.
We go win for those security briefings and we're not supposed to talk about exactly what happens in those briefings, so there's very little that we're given on paper. But as a president, you definitely are given so much more so. Number one, the level of secrecy and harm that could be caused by what Biden had, which was from when he was in the Senate as well as when he was vice president, completely different level than the access that
you have as a president. In addition to that, we know that Trump was walking up out the White House and literally was like, I'm taking my documents with me, like this was a very intentional taking afterwards versus an unintentional taking. And it's the same thing that we do with anything else in law. We look at the intent of something the men's rea. We look at was this intentionally and normally? Was this reckless? Or was this careless and negligent? Those are the standards. What Trump did was
very intentional. What Biden did was very unintentional. And the way Another thing that we know is that when somebody said, yo, we think you got some documents, Biden said, listen, go in, look for whatever y'all want to look for, and take it. What Trump did he said, now cut the cameras, make sure you delete the footage. Like he was absolutely trying to hoard it and hide it, and he was going out and he was bragging, and he was showing these secret documents to people, and literally it put us in.
Harm's way as well as some of our allies.
I still have questions about who he'shod showed what too, and whether or not some of the conflicts that we see that exists right now are a result of his mishandling.
That is very unnerving to me.
And what people don't understand is that there are conflicts that are taking place in places like Africa. We've got conflicts in Sudan. We've got people that have forgotten what happened with the Haitians. And when the Haitians were trying to come in as migrants, it was my governor that had officers on horses that were whipping them and acting like you know, this was slavery yet again. But people don't say, well, why were the Haitians trying to get
up here? They forget that the president had been murdered, right and so like. But you know, I don't know how many people was trying to stand with the Haitians, which I feel a way about right, and I don't know how many people are really trying to stand with the Sudanese people and and all that.
So so now you you can say nothing, It's okay. He it's okay to say nothing. They didn't do anything, nothing, it's okay. Yeah. Do you think Hunter Biden being indicted on the non new tax charges is political?
Absolutely? Absolutely.
I mean he's already listen, we know that he already had indictments that he was facing for basically the same thing. And what we typically do if I put on my legal hat is you work out a deal. You work out a deal and you say, listen, we will do X y Z in exchange for this, and it cleans everything up. I never work a deal where I'm only gonna resolve one issue. I work it all out, because who wants to keep having to go back and back and back or whatever.
Now granted, it was.
The judge that blew the deal up, which judges can always decide if they're going to accept or reject. But I think it's the little disingenuous of the DOJ in general to say, all right, well.
It's a free for all. Now you know what I mean.
This isn't you know, like George Santo's right, like for instance, this it was like, no, I ain't taking your deal.
Right.
He had nine counts.
So the AUSA comes back and was like, Okay, if we're gonna have to try it, then we're gonna try it. Bro right, So superseding indictment. Now you got twenty three twenty three counts. This wasn't that type of situation. You had someone who said, I am accepting responsibility, I am willing to do what needs to be done to fulfill
the requirements and moving on. So I think that, you know, it's a little different, and I do think that it's politics, but you know, this is what we this is the world were living in.
It's an election cycles.
Them talking about impeaching Biden is definitely politics. Oh my god, they've said that. I forgot what you guys said it. But he literally said I'm doing this to be able to give President Trump or when they bring up is impeachments and see, I believe the problem is they normalize so much of Trump's criminal behavior that when they finally decided to take some action, it all looks political. So every thing looks politically look like I mean all, but I'm saying all of it like we know what it is.
We know why Republicans are talking about impeaching body, we know why Hunter Biden got indicted. And on the flip side, when the people that are actually committing the crimes, when things happen to them, it all looks like a tit for tack. So we the American people, don't know what's
what and who's who. So you can't tell me this person is a criminal when this person is getting charged to You can't tell me this person is a bad guy for getting impeached when they're talking about impeaching them too, because all I hear is the wording yeah yeah.
Because what they're trying to do is they are trying to act as if they're the same, and they're not.
They're not. There's a huge difference.
But they look the same to the American people.
They do look the same.
But like, what I need people to remember is I remember very vividly when Trump said he could go and shoot somebody in broad daylight and get away with it. That's what he said, and essentially that's what he's been doing. He been shooting his shot all over this country acting a fool and basically dare people to come for him.
And guess what. It took a lot of black folk and they made right.
Three out of four of the prosecutors that are going after Trump are black. There are other prosecutors in this country that could be going for his neck as well. We just saw some fake electors in another state that ended up entering into an agreement with the prosecution. Those fake electors were a part of a larger scheme. They didn't go after Trump though. It's like not going after the dope dealer, but instead going after the dude that's on the corner.
Like this needs to stop.
And so it took a black woman in Georgia, It took a black woman in New York. It took a black man in New York to say enough is enough, because they ain't never questioned coming for us, but now it's like we want to tiptoe around. In fact, he should be in jail right now. I don't care what nobody say, but anybody who's ever dealt with the criminal justice system or even any legal system, knows that there is a decorum in court. There's certain things that you
can't do. You can't be out here threatening the judge. No one would dare to do that, right because you already know you were going to be locked up.
But they don't never do it.
That's what I'm saying.
You're saying it is absolutely true.
I get it, but but there's no action.
But guess guess who's gonna do it if it happens, If if he goes to jail for contempt of court or violating a gag order, It's gonna be the black woman in DC because everybody else is like, WHOA right, It's gonna be the black woman in DC.
And when he becomes if he becomes president, which I pray he doesn't.
I pray he doesn't either, Guess.
Who's going to prison all those black women? You just need you notice though, I mean, I'm saying, but it's really that, it's really that serious. He's already said it. He's told you what he's going to do to his critics and his political opponent. He has.
But I'm gonna keep the faith and I'm I'm a hope and pray on that one.
You think with George Santos, you think the congresshould have came before the court in that situation.
I think that we did what was right for sure, I absolutely do, because here's the deal with What people don't understand is that we have our own systems in place as well, and so we have our system, you don't necessarily have to be facing criminal charges to go before ethics and for ethics to deliver an opinion and to do an investigation. George Santos refused to resign. We've had people historically resign for way less. But he decided, no, who gonna check me boo, like y'all gonna have to
kick me out. And I don't know if this was about him getting an unemployment check, because y'all know that was part of his issue, was the unemployment fraud. And so I guess he say, listen, y'all gonna see me fired publicly.
And so I can collect my chick. I don't know.
I don't know what his thought process was, but it's I do think that the right thing was done. Because he was accused of things that were associated with him being in office, they were associated with him seeking office, and they conducted their own investigation. He was given an opportunity to defend himself. He failed to participate that is due process. Due process doesn't necessarily have to be a criminal trial, because due process is simply that I am.
Making an allegation.
It can be a civil allegation, but you have to be given an opportunity to defend yourself. He was given that opportunity. They had thousands upon thousands of pages of evidence against him, and they came to a conclusion in a bipartisan way of the facts in that case, and they were absolutely egregious and he shouldn't be serving.
You think it's gonna set a bad president because now you see Vetter Maern coming after Menindez, and you see they just sensor Jamal Bowman, And you think that's going to set a president to where.
Well they I mean, now they didn't censored and censured and censored to They didn't water down what a censor's supposed to be.
For sure.
You know, I don't think that it sets a bad precedent because I don't know that we will ever have another person in Congress that will be half as egregious as.
George Santos, especially in the Republican Party.
As far as like who they are as people, yes, but as far as committing crimes that are specifically associated with them being in office.
No, And that's the thing.
Like representation looks like electing the person that you feel like represents you. Unfortunately, Georgia feels like Marjorie Taylor Green.
Is a good representation of them.
They feel like Matt Gates. Now there is a rumor that they are really trying to work through the Matt Gates stuff because they're still very upset with him. I don't know what they're gonna do with that, but you know, he was facing some very serious allegations. They weren't necessarily tied to his office, but you know, rapist kind of a big deal. And so you know, ultimately they decided not to move forward with criminal charges for the out sexual rape allegations that he had against him.
I don't know, because you've had you got both presidential candidates who got accusations do well. But I'm what I'm saying, candidates, we got a president who has accusations and a candidate Trump who has accusation.
So but the difference with Matt Gates, That's what I'm saying. So Matt Gates, ultimately they decided no criminal charges. So I think that they'll be in a weird space depending on what they have, Like I don't know what they have. It's kind of like the January sixth Commission, like they were unable they were able to find out a lot of things that weren't not.
I don't know if Trump would be facing.
His criminal charges but for January six right, So I don't know if ethics has received additional information or something like that. And it still may end up causing an issue for Matt Gates down the line, but Matt Gates is still there, so I mean, I think that the President's is still in place because he does have the allegations, but he's not been brought up to be kicked out
by Democrats or Republicans. No one has tried to censor him, no one has tried to expel him, and I don't anticipate that anything would happen unlessen until there actually was an investigation where he was given an opportunity again to defend himself. And I think again for Santos, it was the fact that he literally, I mean, he had one of his colleagues go off because he had ran his credit card up for ten thousand dollars. So one of his own Republican colleagues, was like, bro, like you did
it to me? Like so yeah, like it was very personal, like I gave you my credit card information because I was supporting your candidacy and you ran it up going to I don't know what he Yeah, I'm assuming that's where he went on that one.
Yeah.
I got two more questions, and I think the Democratic Party is making the same mistake with Biden that they made with RBG.
Ooh, that is a very interesting way to phrase it. Listen, I'm ride with Biden. That's we have no other option. We have no other option.
I mean, would you be riding with Biden? How would you be calling for Biden this episode?
I wouldn't be calling for him this episode only because literally, this guy has a great track record. Again, who's looking at fixing the water and Flint?
Can he win? I agree with you, the track record is dead. But can he win? Can he win next year in a general election? Can Biden and hire Us win? Are they still a winnable ticket?
I think they are. I think they are. I think that.
We got a lot of work to do, and I think that, you know, we tripping if we feel like we got this thing in the bag. I don't think we should ever underestimate the power of Trump and his cult. We should never do that, right, And I also think that it's important for people that if historically felt like they were left out, ignored, or just taken for granted. I think it's important that we have the conversations with those communities and tell them that no, no, no, no, we
are fighting for you. Like I just said, most people don't know six dollars a day and the Republicans trying to snatch it, you know what I'm saying, Like no, like we can do this, Like don't do this to us, right, like or the fact that you want to make sure that housing vouchers aren't available when we're dealing with a housing crisis in this entire country.
Like, no, we are trying to fight for these things.
And listen, if you let them empower, you may not have a roof over your head for show. You may not have food in your belly for show. So like, we are fighting for these things and it is a team effort. I think that what we do is we give too much power to the president. The president isn't a king. That's not what we have in this country.
It takes an entire team. So I need people to understand that they need to research who is running for the state House so you don't end up with the George Santos because that was a democratically healthy and a Democrat needs to take it back. So like, I need people to say, yes, we've got the president and the vice president, but they can't get nothing done by themselves. They still need a Senate that's gonna work with them. They still need a House that's gonna work with them.
And so we put so much focus on the president as if he is the one person that can do at all, and that's just not what it is. I need people to start putting some pressure on these members that are sitting in the US House as well as the US Senate and making sure that they're researching them and they're voting for the right candidates so that we can get the right team. Because last time we had the House, we had the Senate, and we had the
White House. Everybody's like, why didn't y'all caught afi Row like that. That's been like a major blast, right.
Because y'all had it was the Senate.
The Senate was the problem.
But it was to y'all people constantly holding stuff up in the Senate, Jo Cinema, and now nobody flexed on either one of them. Donald Trump I'm talking about Donald Trump would have had a nickname for both of them. Donald Trump would have been calling them out. Donaldrum would have been putting pressure on them. Yeah.
But but but look at this.
Cinema decided let me go in and not even try to pretend I'm a Democrat.
No more.
Right, So Cinema is not running as a Democrat. Her polling is trashed, and so one of my Democratic House colleagues is running against her, Ruben Diego. He about to smash her like that. That is the plan. He's gonna hopefully take that seat. So now we got one. Joe Manchin what he decided to do.
Never mind, guess when he runs for president. I don't want to hear nobody that's a Democrat talk shit about him, because y'all didn't talk shit about him.
I did, so you said nobody, right, I'm sorry.
But I don't want to Everybody was tiptoeing around Joe for the most part, wouldn't call him out when he was blocking every single agenda in the Biden administration. But when he runs for president. Everybody gonnary demon, I'm not gonna hear back. Guy, don't do that.
Now, Well, I'm gonna be consistent. I'm gonna hear him out. I'm representative.
We appreciate it for joining US. Representative Jasmine Crockett, Thank you so much. How can people follow if they want to follow you?
Yes?
So, my official accounts are at Rep. Jasmine R E, P J A, S M I N E and my campaign accounts, which is where I do most of the two.
That is Jasmine for us.
Now, Jasmin Congresswoman. Jasmine is one of the dope ones. If you pay attention, she's one of the dope ones. You one of the people, and I'm glad it is actually in the position that you're in, like people like you should be the future of democracy, but probably won't because we won't have a democracy. Yeah.
If not, if y'all let Trump back, Yep, it's over.
It's over.
Well, there you have it. It's the Breakfast Club. It's Representative Jasmine Crockett.
Wake that ass up in the morning.
The Breakfast Club