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I'm trying and you're not so until you do it I'm the boss [Music] it seems that trance time sold a part called a non vehicle er clutch disc you have to excuse how small the the image is here but it's up there on that screen but it would if I blew it up much larger it wouldn't even beat a scale cuz this disc is only about 3 inches anyway [Music] a pair of jeans can cost $32 imagine paying a thousand over $1,000 for that but the good news here is that what I found is that the the cost of about one hundred and forty nine of these clutch discs will cost at at cost is about four thousand seven hundred and sixty eight dollars except transed I'm charged public two hundred and fifteen thousand and seven dollars that is a margin of about two hundred and ten thousand two hundred and thirty nine dollars mr. Haly are you aware how many doses of insulin we could get for that for that margin I'm not in a single-payer health care system and insulin dose can cost about a hundred and thirty seven dollars a vial I could have gotten over fifteen hundred people insulin for the cost of the margin of your price gouging for these vehicular disks alone the incidence of diabetes according to the CDC is about seven people in a thousand which means I could have covered the insulin costs of a community of twenty one thousand four hundred people for the cost of your price-gouging of the public on a non vehicle er clutch disc alone I could have sent 21 kids to college I could have sent 18 toddlers to free preschool for a year in the most expensive city in America so my question to you is why should we give you another dime it seems to me the government always has the choice of what to buy and what not to buy from us maybe believe that we we believe we provide the government with well-designed well manufactured high quality product we deliver it in a timely fashion and we support it when there's a problem how much competition do you have how many competitors do you have in this market we have in I don't know this individual part just because we make 200 thousand parts but I would say there's almost no product we make with there aren't other alternatives by the part but it'd be one alternative to alternatives or a thousand alternate not a thousand not a some number of alternatives we're always selected originally in a competitive process when the airplanes design we're selected because of our price our technology our delivery or contract arms what you know if in this interesting because this term free market comes up very often but I don't think people really understand what that means because so often it's not a free market at all it's a captive market it's one where we're forced to choose between two to three people oftentimes in these processes there is significant argument and there's significant evidence that there's collusion in these markets that it's not a perfectly competitive market because a perfectly competitive market requires a large amount of competitors [Music] you today is my lucky day because for ages we're cons were consistently told that single-payer healthcare is too expensive we're told constantly how are you going to pay for it how are you going to pay for covering the insulin costs of everyday Americans and I seem to have found part of my answer here today right now Amazon can scan your face without your consent all of our faces without our consent and sell it to the to the government all without our knowledge correct yes and you know miss mr. chair I'd like to seek unanimous consent on how Amazon actually met with ice officials over facial recognition system that could identify immigrants I'd like to submit this to the congressional record without objection thank you so much and miss Garvey in fact it's not just Amazon that's doing this right it's Facebook it's Microsoft it's a very large amount of tech corporations correct that's correct do you think it's fair to say that Americans are essentially being spied on and surveilled on a massive scale without their consent or knowledge I would make a bit of a distinction between what Facebook and other companies are doing but yielding to missable and weenie for for more specifics on this I will say most of the law enforcement agency systems operate on DMV databases or mug shot databases so information that has been collected by agencies rather than companies thank you and mr. Ferguson what are the prime constitutional concerns about the non-consensual use of facial recognition recognition technology is rooted or alluded to in the 14th amendment correct it's correct it's one of them and right now companies governments agencies can essentially steal or use your biometric data from you without your consent and and this is outrageous right because this is America and we have a right to privacy isn't that right miss : Cooley Ani that's absolutely right thank you thank you well then we need I heard your opening statement and we saw that these algorithms are effective in two different degrees so are they most effective on women No are they most effective on people of color absolutely not are they most effective on people of different gender expressions no in fact they exclude them so what demographic is it mostly effective on quite men and who are the primary engineers and designers of these algorithms definitely white men so we have a technology that was created and designed by one demographic that is only mostly effective on that one demographic and they're trying to sell it and impose it on the entirety of the country so we have the Pale Male data sets being used as something that's universal when that isn't actually the case when it comes to representing the full sepia of humanity and do you think that this could exacerbate the already egregious inequalities in our in our criminal justice system it already is thank you very much I yield the rest of my time of the show also so right now because you have the propensity for these systems to misidentify black individuals or brown communities more often and you also have confirmation bias where if I have been said to be a criminal that I am more targeted so there's a case with mr. BA an eighteen-year-old african-american man who was misidentified in Apple stores as a thief and in fact he was he was falsely arrested multiple times because of this kind of MIS identification and then if you have a case where we're thinking about putting let's say facial recognition technology on police body cams in a situation where you already have racial bias that can be used to confirm right the presumption of guilt even if that hasn't necessarily been proven because you have these algorithms that we already have sufficient information showing fail more on communities of color it's already super legal as we've seen for me to be a pretty bad guy so it's even easier for the president United States to be one I would assume that's right thank you very much let's play a lightning round game I'm gonna be the bad guy which I'm sure half the room would agree with anyway and and I want to get away with as much bad things as possible ideally to enrich myself and advance my interest even if that means putting it putting my interests ahead of the American people I have enlisted all of you as my co-conspirators so you're gonna help me legally get away with all of this so mrs. Hobart Flynn I want to run if I want to run a campaign that is entirely funded by corporate political action committees is that is there anything that legally prevents me from doing that no okay so there's nothing stopping me from being entirely funded by a corporate PAC say from the fossil fuel industry the healthcare industry Big Pharma I'm entirely hundred-percent lobbyist PAC funded okay so let's say I'm a really really bad guy and let's say I've have some skeletons in my closet that I need to cover up so that I can get elected mr. Smith is it true that you wrote this article this opinion piece for The Washington Post entitled these payments to women were unseemly that doesn't mean they were illegal well I can't see the piece but I wrote a piece under that headline in the post so I assume that's right okay great so green light for hush money I can do all sorts of terrible things it's totally legal right now for me to pay people off and that is considered speech that money is considered speech so I use my special interest dark money fund a campaign to pay off folks that I need to pay off and get elected so now I'm elected and I'm in I've got the power to draft Lobby and shape the laws that govern the United States of a erricka fabulous now is there any hard limit that I have perhaps mrs. Hobart Flynn is there any hard limit that I have in terms of what legislation I'm allowed to touch are there any limits on the laws that I can write or influence especially if I'm a based on the special interest funds that I accepted to finance my campaign and get me elected in the first place there's no limit so there's none so I can be totally funded by oil gas and gas it can be totally funded by Big Pharma come in right Big Pharma laws and there's no limits to that whatsoever that's right okay so awesome now now mr. Mara Bonnie the last thing I want to do is get rich with as little work possible that's really what I'm trying to do as the bad guy right so is there anything preventing me from holding stocks say in an oil or gas company and then writing laws to deregulate that that industry and cause you know that could potentially cause the stock value to soar and accrue a lot of money in that time you could do that so I could do that I could do that now with the way our current laws are are set up yes yes okay great is it possible that any elements of this story apply to our current government in our current public servants right now yes yes so we have a system that is fundamentally broken we have these influences existing in this body which means that these influences are here in this committee shaping the questions that are being asked of you all right now would you say that that's correct mr. Mara Bunny or mr. Shelby yes all right so one last thing mr. shell in relation to congressional oversight that we have the limits that are placed on me as a congresswoman compared to the executive branch and compared to say the president of United States would you say that Congress has the same sort of stand of accountability are there is there more teeth in that regulation in Congress on the President or would you say it's about even or more so on the federal in terms of laws that apply to the president yeah there's just almost no laws at all that apply to the president so I'm being held and every person in this body is being held to a higher ethical standard than the President of the United States that's right because there are some committee yeah ethics committee rules that apply to you and it's already super legal as we've seen for me to be a pretty bad guy so it's even easier for the president United States to be one I would assume that's right thank you very much the gentlelady yields thank you and I appreciate the gentlelady from New York's passion about the issue and I think it's genuine I think it's heartfelt and I also appreciate her passion for working Americans and the need to provide for a future of prosperity for working Americans and and I want to invite the gentlelady to come to Eastern Kentucky my home area where thousands of coal miners no longer have paychecks I invite her to go underground with me and meet the men and women who do heroic work to power the American economy and I would invite the gentlelady to come to Eastern Kentucky and meet the coal miners who who will tell you what the green New Deal would be would be what would be my time what mean for their families their pay i reclaim my time I'd be happy to in fact when I first started my campaign the first place I went to was to Kentucky and I sat and I and I drove from the airport to where we were staying with an individual and and he was telling me his story I'd be happy to go to Kentucky and I'd also like to note that in the green New Deal one of the things that I advocate for is fully funding the pensions of coal miners in West Virginia and throughout Appalachia because we want a just transition to make sure that we're investing in jobs across those swaths of the country thank you very much related time has expired [Music] [Music] if we tell the American public that we are more willing to invest and bail out big banks than we are willing to invest in our farmers and our urban families then I don't know what we're here doing I don't know what we're doing it seems as though white men invoking white supremacy and engaging in mass shootings are almost immune from being labeled domestic terrorists in their violence [Music] mr. Ricci the San Bernardino attack was labeled the San Bernardino attack of December 2nd 9 2015 was labeled as a domestic terrorist incident is that correct mr. Austin do you know the June 12 2016 pulse nightclubs shooting was also labeled as a domestic terrorist incident because my understanding mr. Salim when Dylan roof a 21 year old white supremacist entered the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church and murdered nine african-american worshippers was that labeled as an incidents of domestic terrorism I don't believe it was but there's no question that it was so it was in your in your belief as as a leader in the space it was an incidents of domestic terrorism but it was not labeled as such that's correct was the white supremacist shooting at Pittsburgh tree of life synagogue labeled as a domestic terrorist in this incident I'm not aware that it was although then Attorney General Sessions came out and called it that but the the charges that were that have been brought to bear and are currently playing out in court are not ones of terrorists so despite all of that rhetoric that we were hearing they weren't actually labeled these white supremacist incidents were not labeled as domestic terrorist incidents and you know I really dug into some of these distinctions what was labeled as domestic terrorism what was labeled as a hate crime and I could not help but as much as I tried to dig in and explain I could not help but feel and see that attacks committed by Muslim Americans were out of almost automatically labeled as domestic terrorist incidents yet white supremacist shooting after shooting after shooting is not and I can't help but come to the conclusion that these labels what's being labeled as terrorism is almost exclusively coming down to the identity and it seems as though white men invoking white supremacy and engaging in mass shootings are almost immune from being labeled domestic terrorists in their violence do you find similar patterns mr. Salim I think when we look at and I'll just call it what it is the Terrorism that has been perpetrated against not just Jewish communities but against Muslim communities against Christian communities in Charleston against Sikh communities in Oak Creek Wisconsin and a range of other communities that organize based on race national origin ethnicity color etc like these acts that take lives I don't know how you can label these actions in the eyes of the victims or the families or the communities that are affected anything other than acts of terrorism thank you thank you very much so the list price is almost two thousand dollars in the United States why is it eight dollars in Australia [Music] we mr. O'Day you're the CEO of Gilead is it true that Gilead made three billion in profits from the sales of Truvada in 2018 the three billion in revenue oh yes in revenue thank you and very quickly at the current list price is two thousand dollars a month in the United States correct the current list price is 1780 in the United States and just to correct the three billion was a global figure okay for Fortran so it so the list price is almost $2,000 in the united states why is it $8 in australia Truvada is still has patent protection in the united states and in the rest of the world it is generic there is no reason that should be $2,000 a month people are dying because of it and and there's no enforceable reason for it you dr. grant Truvada for prep is the only known drug that can prevent the transmission of HIV correct it's the only medication that's been approved by the FDA it's also known that tanaka vir alone is is prophylactic for HIV thank you and it was dr. grant it was your NIH funded research on prep that built on the earlier research work patented by CDC researchers is that correct yes my clinical trial was informed by CDC research in two ways one the CDC demonstrated that the pre exposure dose was added to the efficacy of the prep and thank you thank you dr. grant and I would also like to seek unanimous consent to submit to submit this Yale School of Law study to the into the congressional record which concludes that the CDC's patents for prep were both valid and enforceable thank you very much doctor lord thank you for your advocacy here today is it true that the public invested 50 million to develop prep right that is correct is it also true that Gilead relied publicly relied on publicly funded trials to obtain FDA approval yes if you look at their supplementary new drug application you'll see that every sponsor of the Truvada s prep was a non Gilead sponsor when folks can't access prep because it's so expensive and we spread you know the HIV epidemic continues that also comes at a public cost right so so the public is paying we pay to develop prep we paid to finance the publicly funded trials to develop this drug we also pay and foot the bill with patient assistance programs and also we pay when the HIV epidemic gets spread as well [Music] and will be generically available in the United States as of September and 2020 based upon Gilead agreeing to to support so I think it's important that we notice here that we the public we the people develop this drug we paid for this drug we led and developed all of the grounding patents to create prep and then that patent has been privatized despite the fact that the patent is owned by the public we refuse to enforce it there is no reason that should be two thousand dollars a month people are dying because of it and and there's no enforceable reason for it we own the intellectual the core intellectual property for it and as a result people's people are are dying for no reason for no reason so the public is acting as early investor putting tons of money in the development of drugs that then become privatized and then they receive no return on on the investment that they have made right you're familiar with the study that shows that between 2010 and 2016 of every drug all 210 drugs that were approved by the FDA were funded by the NIH or public money would it be correct dr. Kassel Heim to characterize the NIH money that is being used in development and research as an early investment yes so the public is acting as an early investor in the production of these in the production of these drugs is the public receiving any sort of direct return on that investment from the highly profitable drugs that are developed from that from that research no in most cases that there isn't when those when those products are eventually handed off to a for-profit company there aren't licensing deals that bring money back into the coffers of the NIH that usually doesn't happen so the public is acting as early investor putting tons of money in the development of drugs that then become privatized and then they receive no return on on the investment that they have made right dr. dr. Anderson I have a question is since you study comparative insurance systems are there models where the public where the public does receive returns on investments in other insurance in other insurance models across the world there are a few but they're relatively uncommon mm-hmm and and how does that tend to work so essentially if the places that the UK or some place like that have invested money in it they will get some rate of return on those investments but again it's relatively uncommon would it be fair to say that most of the foundational research is being done with public dollars and that I mean this is just sort of common sense if you know the people who go do their MD PhDs and want to win Nobel prizes they tend to go to universities not becoming general councils or vice presidents and pharmaceutical companies I mean is that not your experience yes and actually I think that's happening more and more used to be the case that a lot of large pharmaceutical companies had really big research arms but in recent years a lot of those companies have divested from those research arms and instead are looking for the research that's coming out of the academic setting that's you know a lot of these scientists go to work every day and their incentive is to try to cure disease and to make people better and to enter progress and to you know develop the progress of science and you know they're not thinking about whether or not they can become a billionaire or whatever because what our that's the incentive I'm running because everyday Americans deserve to be represented by everyday Americans it's not a coincidence that when you look at Congress and and you might see in a picture that it's primarily white and male and older it's also wealthier and that has so much to do with our campaign finance system [Music] [Laughter] he's gonna tell me I'm small that I'm young but I'm an experienced Alexandria Ocasio Cortez was working in restaurants of quarry Bush was a nurse apology and Swearengen is a Coal Miner's Daughter ami Vilela was an executive but she had worked her way up from poverty to that place each of them was the type of person who isn't supposed to run for office and the only way it's possible for people like that to run for office and to open a space so that regular working people can have representation in our federal government is to run these types of grassroots campaigns [Music] if I was a rational person I would have dropped out of this race a long time ago people are gonna underestimate you people are gonna attack you on social media and in the press and sometimes in person so what you have to do is have a story about yourself and your reasons for running that is good enough and strong enough to inspire legions of people to get behind you to really motivate groups of volunteers to knock on those doors to make those phone calls to have those conversations on doorsteps [Music] it's not about left or right or Democrat versus Republican it's about up and down it's about the party establishment and people who have been in power for a long time versus communities who feel they don't have a voice and they do this he said sakuga in Essos central no dynamos Estados Unidos donde ellos para construir una vida mejor y más seguro para mi hija maria las MIMO cement a by maria mi Nina lenta in muy Dolorosa mint a uno de meses antes de su so you know complain oh yeah de haut de exists a me Ella Revere esta experiencia y record r lo lo que yo sufrió pero estoy aquí porque el mundo debe saber lo que esta su SE viendo contente OHS Nino's Ella's carsales dentro de la atención de ice me Hermosa Nena say Dora pero espero que su historia esta muy al gobierno de los Estados Unidos actuar para que Nino's Nome wearin poor negligence al mal trot o que de gracias Senora Huaraz por venir aquí y con el valor de compartir tu su historia en pasar con una pregunta que es muy importante primera mint a la ley de los Estados Unidos creaky air a que los ninos 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human rights violation is extraordinarily concerning and at a bare minimum grounds for serious investigation by this committee and other entities thinking and that's what we're doing so thank you very much mr. cotton Cortese I will be damned if the same politicians who refuse to act then are gonna try to come back today and say we need a middle of the middle of the road approach to save our lives that is too much for me [Music] [Applause] [Music] so often you know when folks particularly conservatives on both sides of the aisle say [Applause] when they say that calling for a green new deal is quote too much or too extreme or too radical no middle ground is right because I'm always curious but I'm always curious when they say that oh it's too much what do they actually mean by that is a hundred percent clean and renewable energy too much it's fighting for dignified jobs that pay people enough to live too much is proposing a solution on the scale of the climate crisis to solve it too much no but let me tell you what's too much room here's what's too much for me what's too much for me it's politicians looking and allowing babies blood to get poisoned in Flint for corporate profits that is what is too much for me what's too much for me what's too much for me is coal barons coming up to Washington DC demanding bailout after tax break after bailout for themselves and then not even paying their own miners pensions and put their own miners health care that is what is too much for me that is too much for me what is too much for me is the fact that ExxonMobil knew exactly that climate change was real and man-made as far back as 1970 and instead of being part of the solution they paid millions of dollars to lobby and lie and confuse the American public about it endangering generations to come that is too much for me [Applause] what is too much for me is the fact that in 1989 the year that I was born the year that I was born the year that many of us were born and in years after and right before that politicians were first informed by NASA that Congress was first notified by NASA that climate change was going to threaten my life and everyone here's life to come and they did nothing that is too much for me and I and I will be damned if the same politicians who refused to act then are gonna try to come back today and say we need a middle of the middle-of-the-road approach to save our lives that is too much for me [Music] we cannot and we will not accept anything less solution to save his white supremacy not a global issue we've seen white supremacist attacks that were clearly domestic terrorism experts in fact the acting AG Jeff sessions even called some of these instance dress domestic terrorism is an incidence the Emanuel AME Church shooting of black Americans in Charleston and the Tree of Life synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh of Jewish people that those were only designated and charged as hate crimes not domestic terrorist incidents you're not gonna find an actual charge of domestic terrorism out there if you look at title 18 right you're looking well it says here that but at the San Bernardino shooting or the Alando pulse nightclub shooting they were designated and charged as domestic terrorist incidents they were they were charged I'd have to go back and look they were charged likely with if there was a connection to a foreign terrorist organization a or B so because because the perpetrator was Muslim they are doesn't it seem that because the perpetrator is Muslim doesn't know that the designation would say it's a foreign organization not correct if you that is not correct okay can you explain yeah why homegrown violent extremist who we or most of the people we arrest in the United States homegrown violent extremist self radicalized born in the US it doesn't matter what religion but the Orlando pulse Club shooter meets those qualifications and he is your doesn't international terrorist because he was following under the but he was homegrown and self radicalized in this cases we were homegrown by extremist cases under the global jihad we worked in under international terrorism gray is white supremecy not a global issue it is a global issue so why are they not charged with foreign because the United States Congress doesn't have a statute for us for domestic terrorism like we do on a foreign terrorist organization like Isis al Qaeda Al Shabaab could you see how this could create issues and discrepancies with how violent extremism by Muslim perpetrators could potentially even if it's unintentional but that there are there are holes and there are gaps here not through your fault or any one specific person's fault it could be our fault as Congress but could you see how one could see how the way that we are pursuing and charging white supremacy particularly if they tend to be charged with hate crimes and and where that same type of violence committed by a Muslim extremist could be charged with domestic terrorism hate crimes and domestic terrorism are treated and charged they're different crimes and they could be pursued differently with different resource allocations can you see how people would say that these are being treated differently this is a pattern about some people being subject to the rule of law and others not I think that this taps into a deeper narrative in a deeper pattern of what is happening out of this administration where they believe that the rule of law only belongs and applies to some people and not others right here now we're about twenty years away from the Central Park five where the president put out a full-page ad demanding the death penalty for five black and brown boys boys they were not yet 18 years old demanding the death penalty for something they were accused of and innocent of and here we have just documented evidence of multiple times of violation of the same law and he will even issue a slap on the wrist [Music] let me know when the jail sentence starts this is a pattern about some people being subject to the rule of law and others not and when that happens there is no rule of law at all and that's why it's important that we make sure that everyone is held accountable because whether it's a billionaire whether it's an inn whether it's an administration official or whether it's a postal worker or a kid on the street we all must be held accountable to the same extent by the rule of law thank you very much I want to know about the racism that and the and the very disturbing history that we're seeing here that's what I want to know the census is a constitutionally mandated operation that we are required to implement every ten years it is one of the most vital and sensitive things that we do in our government [Music] any change to the census any addition of a question usually takes five years of a process to make sure that it is vetted that every word has been tested to make sure that it is effective because it is one of the most important things that we do so it's not that I want to this is not about whether or not I want to know who is a citizen in the United States or not what I want to know is why after why this question was added why two years have been shaved off of that five year process I want to know why we have skipped every normal mandated procedure what in testing how this question gets added in the census I want to know why it was why this question was magically added after we have seen that a political operative new and detailed an intent to intimidate racial and immigrant communities for a partisan purpose saying this will hurt Democrats and help Republicans that's what I want to know I want to know why Wilbur Ross why secretary Ross continued to meet with people of disturbing political affiliations after his own administration warned him to stop he came right here and I asked him did you continue speaking with him after this he told me no we had an email and he did he did I want to know why people like Chris Kobach with a documented history of overseeing effects he has a resume of voter suppression techniques in the state of Kansas I want to know why folks like that have their fingerprints all over the most sensitive census operations that we have as a United States government this determines who is here this determines who has power in the United States of America that is what we want to know I want to know about corruption that's what I want to know about the racism that and the and the very disturbing history that we're seeing here that's what I want to know and so we gave the opportunity to ask we asked why are all of these things happening why is all of this connected why are there so many people everyone from Steve Bannon to Kris Kobach having their fingerprints and their political intent all over the United States Census why and what do we get nothing no response stonewalling we're getting obstruction we're getting a lack of answers I don't want to issue a subpoena nobody wants to be in a position where you have to issue a subpoena of an administration official because we are a co-equal branch of government and it should be expected that when we ask a question we get a response but when we don't we have to do our job I never no one wants to be in a position where we have to issue a subpoena but today because of the secretary and because of the Attorney General's refusal to cooperate with a co-equal branch of government we have no choice this is about the rule of law this is about the respect of our institutions and this is about the power of all of us as a body as United States Congress and the integrity of the government of the United States thank you very much I yield the rest of my time to the chair 20:19 in an era where we think that we have insulin for sale and we try to skim off the profits of life-saving medications it is radical to believe that caring for our veterans should not be for sale in America and here's the thing they are trying to fix it but but who are they trying to fix it for is the question we gotta ask and this is who they're trying to fix it for they're trying to fix the VA for pharmaceutical companies they're trying to fix the VA for insurance corporations and ultimately they're trying to fix the VA for a for-profit health care industry that does not put people or veterans first and so we have a responsibility to protect it because if it is any community that deserves cadillac first-class health care in the united states of america it is our military service members of veterans period [Applause] people talk about the advocacy that comes from our district and the advocacy that comes from me as though it's this big radical scary crazy thing and you know why they say it's so radical and so crazy you know this big radical belief at the core of what we advocate for is because we believe that some things should not be for sale in this country [Music] and that is in their opening and approach that we have seen when it comes to privatization is the idea that this thing that isn't broken this thing that provides some of the highest quality care to our veterans somehow needs to be fixed optimized tinkered with until until we don't even recognize it anymore and so when we talk about the VA we need to talk about protecting the VA and if we really want to fix the VA so badly let's start hiring and filling up some of those 49,000 vacancies that haven't been hired [Applause] [Music] the United States is running concentration camps on our southern border and that is exactly what they are they are concentration camps if that doesn't bother you I don't [Music] I don't know I like we can have okay whatever I want to talk to the people that are concerned enough with humanity to say that we should not that never again means something and that the fact that concentration camps are now in institutionalized practice in the home of the free is extraordinarily disturbing does she not owe every Jews as a planet an apology has she ever been to Yad Vashem and discussing them or Auschwitz Birkenau in southern Poland or Dachau in Germany never again is the phrase that Jews all over the world used to make sure that the extermination between 1939 and 1945 never happens again and she's using concentration camps to describe what's happening on the southern border how in the world is that acceptable [Music] you know I don't use those words lightly I don't use those words to just throw bombs I used that word because that is what an administration that creates concentration camps is a presidency that creates concentration camps it's fascist and it's very difficult to say that because it is very difficult to [Music] accept the fact that that is how bad things have gotten but that is how bad things are [Music] March alone CBP apprehended and encountered over 103 thousand migrants crossing without legal status most in one month for over a decade simply put the system is full and we are well beyond our capacity this means that the new waves of vulnerable populations arriving here in exacerbating of the already urgent humanitarian security crisis at the border we don't have room to hold them we don't have the authority to remove them fairly and expeditiously and we are not likely and they are not likely to be allowed to remain in the country at the end of their immigration proceedings [Music] I'm trying and you're not so until you do it I'm the boss hi bye you heard it here I went to go visit these people that were planning the civic action in the church and they said you know mean this was right after the UN report came out that said we had 12 years left to address climate change or our earth irrevocably changed for the worse and they said we have to do something I'm literally looking at people who are 14 15 years old and I'm not you know I'm I'm 29 and I know that this is gonna be the world that we're gonna have to deal with that we're gonna have to live in and with all due respect to my colleagues but especially in like the Republican Party it's like you're not gonna have to live with this problem you're just I'm sorry ie you're too old I mean no bones but seriously and it's not it's not to create like an ageism issue because there are people in older generations that have been fighting for the right thing for decades since the 70s and you know they created the EPA and they've been fighting on these issues but there are a lot of other people that are just like not dealing with it and I'm looking at these people who are like 14 15 years old and the I and they're like help us the power isn't the person who's trying regardless of the success if you're trying you've got all the power you're driving the agenda you're doing all this stuff like I just introduced green new deal two weeks ago and it's creating all of this conversation why because no one else has even tried because no one else has even tried so people are like oh it's unrealistic oh it's vague oh it doesn't address this little minut thing and I'm like you try you do it cuz you're not cuz you're not so until you do it I'm the boss have I you heard it here and when it comes to shaping the national conversation frankly I think it's because there's so few people are trying on a level where they are risking something of themselves you know there's this there's that famous Teddy Roosevelt quote it's it's the person in the arena they said man now is woman in the arena favorite quote yeah and he says you know it's not the critic who counts it's not the it's not the person that's sitting in the audience that matters it's the man in the arena it's the woman in the arena it's the person who's whose face is just smeared with dirt who's just eating it who's falling down who's trying that's the only person that matters [Music] there is an exception for those those drugs that have been shown medical promise but we cannot prove that medical promise unless we fund the research [Music] madam chair I rise today to offer this critical bipartisan amendment that will allow United States researchers to study and examine the extraordinary promise shown by several schedule one drugs that have been shown in treating critical diseases such as MDMA success in veteran PTSD psilocybin promise in treatment resistant depression or ibogaine effectiveness in opioid and other drug addiction additionally this will allow research into marijuana's impact in cancer relief seizure treatment and more this amendment strikes a war on drugs provision that prohibits any activity quote promoting the legalization of any drug included in Schedule one of the controlled substance act the problem with this provision is that it is so vague and broadly interpreted that it prevents scientists from researching examining and exploring avenues of treatment that could alleviate an enormous amount of suffering from medical conditions I don't think this is what the government should be promoting and I think we should have a lot more research before we tell our kids that this is what they should be doing I yield the balance my colleague across the aisle said we need to research this more and I agree and that is why this amendment is being introduced madam chair the note was brought up that there is a rider provision saying that there is an exception for those those drugs that have been shown medical promise but we cannot prove that medical promise unless we fund the research to actually have it in the first place so we have a catch-22 and we have to get rid of it there are war on drugs provisions in so many federal statutes beyond just the one scheduling of these drugs I'm a strong believer in evidence-based policymaking and wherever there is evidence of good we have a moral obligation to pursue and explore the parameters of that good even if it means challenging our past assumptions or admitting past wrongs 30% of all military veterans have considered suicide 30% so if a substance shows promise in treating PTSD we have an obligation to study it one of the leading causes of death in America today is suicide so if a schedule 1 drug shows clinical promise in treating and in treatment resistant depression perhaps it is not the drug we should say is morally wrong but perhaps it is the law the schedule the statute moreover I am proud to say that this is a bipartisan amendment my colleagues on the other side of the aisle often boom owned the role of government and promote ideas of choice and Here I am happy in that spirit to agree to say we should get government and political opinion out of scientific research when we have seen and showed promise in a way that can help people and their medical needs and lastly I understand that the politics of this bill may make it difficult for some to support right now but I propose this amendment and urge my colleagues to support it because politics isn't always about winning today but it is about fighting for what is right in the future and for future generations [Music] do we live in a more world that allows for billionaires is that a moral outcome it's not and I think it's important to say that III don't think it's not it that necessarily means that all billionaires are amoral it is not to say that someone like Bill Gates for example or Warren Buffett or are immoral people I do not believe that but I believe kicks his dog right yeah I don't I don't I'm not saying that but I do think that system that allows billionaires to exist when there are parts of Alabama or where people are still getting ringworm because they don't have access to public health is wrong well first of all I mean the fact is ringworm isn't deadly it's it I mean people get ring you know it's like foot fungus about these people who have ringworm in Alabama I don't know if she's ever been to Alabama but I don't believe she has a clue yeah well I've been to Alabama that's where everybody from my mother's side of the family is and I've been in New York City and we actually get a bedbug epidemic in Richmond Hatton where the Liberals control that's much worse than any any potential ringworm outbreak at Alabama I think that it's wrong that that a vast majority of the country does not make a living rate wage I think it's wrong that you can work a hundred hours and not feed your kids I think it's wrong that that corporations like Walmart can and in Amazon can get paid they can get paid by the government essentially experience a wealth transfer from the public for paying people less than a minimum wage not only does it make economic sense but it doesn't make moral sense and it doesn't make societal sense what kind of society do we want to live in are we comfortable with a society where someone can have a personal helipad while this city is experiencing the highest rates of people experiencing homelessness and since the Great Depression should those two things coexist at the same time where do we draw the line in excess and at what point do we return to this question that King asked that Gandhi asked that is our material technology outpacing our moral technology we have to say at some point we need to start incentivizing investment in actual people and working people and the majority of people and that may be this idea of idealizing this outcome of maybe one day you too can be a billionaire and own more than millions of families combined is not an aspirational or good thing justice is about the water we drink justice is about the air we breathe justice about is about how easy it is to vote justice is about how much ladies get paid thank you oh are you all ready to make a ruckus are you all ready to fight for our rights are you all ready to say that in the United States of America everyone is loved everyone deserves justice and everyone deserves equal protection and prosperity in our country it is such an honor to be here and I don't think it's a coincidence that we're gathering here today the weekend before Martin Luther King Day because I believe that this moment and where we are right now is a resurgence from where the civil rights movement left off and we are here to carry the torch forward because when we talked about racial and economic justice racial and social justice we started to add to really extend those issues to the issues of economic justice environmental justice and the intersectionality and interconnectedness of all our fights justice is not a concept we read about in the book justice is about the water we drink justice is about the air we breathe justice about is about how easy it is to vote justice is about how much ladies get paid justice is about if we can stay with our children after we have them for a just amount of time mothers fathers and all parents justice is about making sure that being polite is not the same thing as being quiet in fact oftentimes the most righteous thing you can do is shake the table last year we took the power to the polls and this year we're taking power to the policy because we have taken back the House of Representatives [Applause] and that's just step one this year we are going to organize this year we're gonna fight for voting rights this year we're gonna keep pushing because 2020 we took in the in 2018 we took the House of Representatives and through 2020 we're gonna take the White House in the Senate - that's what we're gonna do because we need to advance and fight for it America where all people are welcome and no people are left behind and I know that while this year has been historic there's a lot more congresswoman left here in this audience right now there's a lot more City Council women there's a lot more workers that will be building a businesses there's a lot more there's and I know that there's a future president out here too let us remember that a fight means no person left behind so when people want to stop talking about the issues that black women face when people want to stop talking about the issues that trans women or immigrant women face we gotta ask them why does that make you so uncomfortable because now this is the time we're gonna address poverty this is the time we're gonna address Flint this is the time we're gonna talk about Baltimore and the Bronx and wildfires and put the Ricoh because this is not just about identity this is about justice and this is about the America that we are going to bring into this world thank you all very very much [Applause] [Music] hello Hey hey I'm Kyle how are you all its hello it's fantastic to meet you would you like to introduce yourself in case some people don't know who you are of course everyone my name is Alexandria Ocasio Cortez I am the congresswoman for New York's 14th congressional district thank you so so much [Music] it's a no-brainer trans rights or civil rights are human rights there was legislation that a Democrat was trying to propose that was essentially a protection for our immigrant community and but it was a constitutional protection I I believe and so we actually did didn't co-sponsor it and we pushed we actually pushed back on it because introducing legislation that's that pretty much already reasserts what's in the Constitution makes it feel like it's up for debate like if as if they wrote I write if they voted for the frizzle if they voted down the law it would almost make the constitutional guarantees seem less valid yeah and so we actually pushed back against it even though that it may seem kind of like a twisted logic or counterintuitive of sorts you pull off a discussion it yes exactly and so really what what I think we have to reassert is that when we say that equal rights for all we mean equal rights for all no asterisks exceptions fine print nothing it is so fantastic to hear and I'm glad we got you one I'd love to talk more about trans rights and the mount axe rate but I would also do you I need to ask do you know how to turn on the power in frantic Factory in Donkey Kong 64 because I've been I've been here for hours and I don't know how do not I'm sorry Donkey Kong 64 is outside of my wheelhouse well that's in case I'm your wheelhouse is really really good I never owned an n64 though I do think it's probably the best system out of all of them I never owned an n64 but I used to go to my cousin's house all the time and she had Super Mario 64 Pokemon snap and probably a handful of other things [Music] that's probably all I know how to play Alexandria you are giving a lot of people a lot of hope right now thank you I really don't funny thing to ask but just I just wanted to say that I'm kind of shaking thank you thank you so so very much and I'm so happy that the movement isn't all just about one person either it's that we can have these spontaneous joyous and supportive moments and any one of us can can be responsible and be the source of it so thank you all so much and have an amazing day you too thank you the back I can feel all of my blood I can feel it moving through the veins in my face like every [Music] you [Music]

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