>>> ALL WEEK WE'VE TOLD YOU TO KEEP AN EYE ON THE DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY IN NEW YORK'S 16th CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT, PARTS OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY AND THE BRONX. THE MOST EXPENSIVE HOUSE PRIMARY IN U.S. HISTORY WAS UNDER WAY TO UNSEAT SQUAD CONGRESSMAN JAMAL BOWMAN, ONE OF THE FIERCEST CRITICS OF ISRAEL. THOSE WERE SUCCESSFUL PARTLY THROUGH THE ISRAEL PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE WHO SPENT MONEY AND BACKED THE OTHER CANDIDATE. BOWMAN IS THE FIRST INCUMBENT DEMOCRAT TO LOSE A PRIMARY THIS ELECTION CYCLE AND FIRST OF THE PROGRESSIVE SQUAD TO BE OUSTED FROM POWER SINCE THE GROUP FORMED AFTER THE 2016 ELECTIONS. JOINING ME NOW, A MEMBER OF THE CONGRESSIONAL CAUCUS. THANKS FOR BEING HERE. YOU WERE PART OF THE GROUP THAT SPOKE AT THE FINAL RALLY. I WANT TO PLAY A LITTLE BIT OF YOUR COMMENTS THAT DAY. DO WE HAVE IT? WE DON'T HAVE IT. OKAY. YOU WERE THERE, OTHERS SPOKE FOR REPRESENTATIVE BOWMAN. CHARACTERIZE FOR ME, DO YOU THINK THIS WAS AN ISSUE OF OTHER ISSUES HE HAD, FIRE ALARM, CRITICISMS OF PERFORMANCE, WAS IT REDISTRICTING? WHAT DO YOU THINK WENT INTO THIS LOSS? OR WAS IT THE MONEY? >> FIRST JOY, IT'S BEEN AN HONOR TO SERVE ALONGSIDE JAMAAL BOWMAN, HE DEDICATED HIS LIFE TO MIDDLE SCHOOL CHILDREN, EFFECTIVE LEGISLATOR, LOVING HUSBAND AND FATHER AND WE'VE DONE GREAT WORK ALONGSIDE ONE ANOTHER, WHETHER THE BABY FORMULA SHORTAGE CRISIS OR CLEAN DRINKING WATER, OR SAFER SCHOOLS OR MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORTS FOR STUDENTS. WHILE I WAS ON THE GROUND, ONE OF THE MOMENTS THAT TOUCHED MY HEART, THE LAST DAY OF SCHOOL SEVERAL TEENAGERS CAME RUNNING UP THE BLOCK SAYING THERE'S JAMAAL. THEY WANTED TO TAKE A SELFIE WITH HIM. THEY KNEW WHO THEIR CONGRESSMAN IS, WHO THEIR CHAMPION WAS. AS THEY WERE TAKING A SELFIE WITH HIM, SOMEONE ELSE WAS RIDING BY ON A BIKE, SAID LOVE YOU BROTHER. I GET YOUR BIRTHDAY CARD EVERY YEAR. THIS IS SOMEONE WHO LED WITH LOVE, CENTERED ALL THE PEOPLE FROM EVERY WALK OF LIFE. HIS PERSPECTIVE AND VOICE WILL BE MISSED NEXT TERM. IT IS A COLLECTIVE LOSS FOR OUR DEMOCRATIC CAUCUS. IT IS ALSO A LOSS FOR OUR CONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS AND OUR CONGRESSIONAL PROGRESSIVE CAUCUS AS WELL. I THINK THIS UNPRECEDENTED SUM OF MONEY, $20 MILLION, WE CANNOT ALLOW SPECIAL INTERESTS, DARK MONEY, SUPER PACS, TO BUY CONGRESSIONAL SEATS. IT IS A THREAT TO OUR DEMOCRACY. WHEN I WAS ON THE GROUND, I CAME IN FAITH HOUSES, WITH SMALL BUSINESSES, AT COMMUNITY EVENTS. PEOPLE SAID WE'RE SO TIRED OF THE NEGATIVE ADS. ONE RESTAURANT TALKING TO VOTERS, I WAS THERE FOR 30 MINUTES, AND IN THAT 30-MINUTE SPAN, EIGHT NEGATIVE ADS RAN. >> AND WE KNOW THAT A LOT OF THAT MONEY CAME FROM AIPAC AFFILIATED GROUPS. THEY GOT PEOPLE TO SWITCH FROM REPUBLICAN TO INDEPENDENT, A COUPLE THOUSAND PEOPLE TO SWITCH TO VOTE IN THE PRIMARY. WE KNOW THAT HAPPENED. WE KNOW THERE WAS JUST A TON, AN AVALANCHE OF SPENDING. BUT THERE WAS ALSO A CHANGE IN THE DISTRICT, RIGHT? PREREDISTRICTING, IT HAD MORE OF THE BRONX, POSTRESTRICTING, IT'S ALMOST ALL WESTCHESTER. IT'S HARD TO READ TOO MUCH INTO WHAT HAPPENED WITH BOWMAN, BUT YOU'RE A TARGET OF THE SAME ORGANIZATION AND THEIR SUPER PAC, SO IS COREY BUSH, THERE'S BRAGGING BY PEOPLE SAYING SHE'S NEXT. ST. LOUIS PROSECUTOR WESLEY BELL, A FORMER CAMPAIGN MANAGER FOR AN ANTIABORTION REPUBLICAN, WHO HAS BENEFITTED FROM ADS PAID FOR BY AIPAC. EVEN IF WE'RE OVERREADING WHAT HAPPENED, IS CORI BUSH, ARE OTHER PROGRESSIVES PREPARED FOR THIS TO COME? YOU HAVE A RACE COMING UP. >> YOU WERE SPEAKING ABOUT THE SUPREME COURT A MOMENT AGO, I WANT TO SPEAK TO HOW ALL OF THIS IS CONNECTED. CITIZENS UNITED IS WHAT HAS CREATED THIS CLIMATE, AND ALLOWED FOR THIS INFUSION OF DARK MONEY, SPECIAL INTEREST MONEY, TO COME IN AND INFLUENCE ELECTIONS IN THIS WAY. WE HAVE THE VERY SAME MEGA DONORS, LEONARD LEO AND OTHERS. THE PEOPLE WHO WORKED TO INFLUENCE THE DECISION FOR CITIZEN UNITED ARE BEHIND PROJECT 2025, A FAR RIGHT MANIFESTO, THIS POLICY PLAN, TRANSITION PLAN, THE SAME PEOPLE WHO SOUGHT TO INFLUENCE JUSTICES WITH LAVISH GIFTS AND WHO WANT MORE JUSTICES LIKE THEM SEATED. THIS IS ALL CONNECTED. THESE SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS, DARK MONEY AND SUPER PACS, THEY SUPPORT INSURRECTIONISTS. 100 WHO ARE ELECTION DENIERS. THEY SUPPORT DOZENS OF EXTREMIST REPUBLICANS WHO WANT A NATIONAL BAN ON ABORTION. SO THIS IS A THREAT TO OUR DEMOCRACY. THESE REPUBLICAN DONORS, ALTHOUGH WE DON'T HAVE A FULL AUTOPSY ON THE DONORS INTO NEW YORK, I'M SORRY, BUT THE POINT IS, CORI BUSH IS A VALUED MEMBER OF THE DEMOCRATIC CAUCUS, A LEADER ON REPRO RIGHTS AND REFORM. SHE HAS A GRASSROOTS CAMPAIGN AND PATH TO VICTORY. TO BE A BLACK WOMAN IN AMERICA AND BE TARGETED IS NOTHING NEW, ESPECIALLY FOR SPECIAL INTERESTS, DARK MONEY AND SUPER PACS. IT'S A TESTIMONY TO THE STRENGTH OF THE MOVEMENT THAT
