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Sen. Schumer outlines Democrats' proposals to end ICE roving patrols, ban secret police, enforce accountability, and protect election integrity.
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Key Takeaways
- Democrats demand an end to unconstitutional ICE practices including warrantless arrests and racial profiling.
- Transparency and accountability are central, with calls to ban masks and require agent identification.
- Election integrity concerns focus on preventing federal intimidation and opposing restrictive voter ID laws.
- The SAVE Act is criticized as discriminatory and unlikely to pass the Senate due to lack of Democratic support.
- There is bipartisan public support for election ID, but Democrats warn against policies that disenfranchise voters.
What the video covers
- Sen. Schumer calls for ending ICE roving patrols that operate without warrants and violate constitutional rights.
- Democrats propose banning ICE agents from schools, houses of worship, and election sites to prevent racial profiling and unlawful detentions.
- A code of force and proper training for ICE agents is demanded to prevent brutality and ensure accountability.
- Schumer opposes the use of masks by ICE agents, advocating for transparency and identification to avoid secret police tactics.
- Democrats seek legal enforcement mechanisms allowing courts and local governments to regulate ICE operations.
- Concerns raised about federal overreach in election processes, including DOJ requests for voter rolls and intimidation of local officials.
- Schumer condemns the SAVE Act as a modern form of voter suppression likened to Jim Crow laws, opposing voter ID requirements that disproportionately affect minorities.
- The Democratic leadership is united in pushing these reforms despite resistance from the House Republicans and some administration concerns.
- Schumer emphasizes protecting local election officials from intimidation and ensuring free and fair elections.
- The discussion highlights broader issues of civil liberties, constitutional protections, and the role of federal law enforcement in communities.
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Speaker B
Let's bring in right now Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York.
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Senator, thank you so much for being with us.
Speaker B
Obviously,
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Good morning.
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possible shutdown for DHS is upon us.
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Masked agents are gunning down Americans in the streets.
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And it seems that some Republicans, most independents, and most Democrats want things to change.
Speaker A
You have an opportunity to do that.
Speaker A
What are your demands going to be?
Speaker A
I think maybe not so much with the president, but with a very recalcitrant House of Representatives.
Speaker B
Yeah, well, Joe, we have put together House Democrats, Senate Democrats.
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We're united from one end of our party to the other.
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And we put together some simple, common sense proposals that are done every day, that are used by police forces and local sheriffs everywhere.
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They have three basic objectives.
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One is to end these roving patrols.
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You can't just pick someone up on the street, not and put them in a dark prison without any kind of warrant.
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You can't bust someone's door down without any kind of warrant.
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That's the Constitution.
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Yet that's what's going on despicably on the streets of Minnesota and other places.
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We're also saying in terms of the roving patrols,
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some places are off limits.
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Schools, houses of worship, election places.
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We're saying there shouldn't be racial profiling when they pick people up.
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And we're saying they can't take an American citizen and lock them up without a warrant, without due process.
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The second area we're talking about is accountability and enforcement.
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These, we need a code of force.
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A force code that's used by states, by police officers all over the states.
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When you use force and when you don't.
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We need real training for these people.
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When you watch the videos, you see they're totally untrained.
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They're brutal, they're nasty.
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We also need to have enforcement that you can go to court.
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And stop this ice force from doing things.
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And we need the local and state governments to be able to force them to do certain things.
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They can't do.
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And finally, and maybe most important, no secret police.
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These guys go around, these people go around with masks.
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It makes them more brutal.
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They're never accountable.
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No one even knows who they are.
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There should be no masks except in the most of unusual circumstances.
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You know, if some guy's picture was put up by a terrorist group or something.
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Um,
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but there should be no masks.
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There should be
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um,
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uh,
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no, no, um,
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there should be cameras, everyone should have cameras.
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And there should be rules on how they use them.
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And they have to have regular uniforms.
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Not all the stuff they're wearing.
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But we cannot have secret police.
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And we cannot, you know,
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Johnson,
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the speaker has said,
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he wants to keep the masks.
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Well, I guarantee you when you go down to his district in Louisiana, the sheriffs and police are identified.
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Fully identified with their name and their number.
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That has to happen across America.
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It's to prevent these rogue forces from terrorizing cities.
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No secret police.
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No, no,
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Correct.
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no secret police.
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I can't even believe we're saying that in America.
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It's so un-American.
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I understand the administration has expressed concerns about doxing and things like that.
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I, I, I want you to, uh,
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uh,
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uh,
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uh,
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no masks.
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No secret police.
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And also an understanding that that that we'll do whatever.
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Everyone will do whatever he can.
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Uh, to protect them from doxing and from from other things.
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If there are radical activists that try to to bring harm to them.
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Of course.
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But but police officers don't wear masks.
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Sheriffs don't wear masks.
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Yes.
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They shouldn't wear masks.
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And they face the same, the local police, the local sheriffs.
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Face the same problems that these guys have.
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In terms of the potential of doxing.
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And they're able to deal with it.
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But not mask up.
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This is just incredible.
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The American people are asking the Republicans and asking Johnson.
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Why are you against identity?
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Police having identities?
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Why are you against, why are you still saying they should wear masks?
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They don't have a good answer.
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They've had no good answers to any of these questions.
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And as you said,
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even President Trump is realizing that they're on the wrong side of this issue.
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They're on the wrong side morally.
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They're on the wrong side in terms of just being an American.
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Because we in America have always had these values.
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Have always had this.
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And these rogue, this rogue ice group is just terrorizing our cities.
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And violating the Constitution every minute they're on the street.
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And it's showing up in the polling as you say.
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Leader, good morning, good to have you back with us on the show.
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I want to turn you to the elections in November.
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And some of the early signs we're seeing.
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Suspicious signs to a lot of people.
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Thinking about Fulton County when the FBI showed up and took 700 boxes of material from 2020.
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Thinking about when the Justice Department said to the governor of Minnesota, give us your voter rolls.
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And we'll scale back our ice operations here.
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On and on down the line.
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There's reporting this morning from Reuters that the presence of Tulsi Gabbard.
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The director of national intelligence.
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In Georgia, that was not the first time.
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That she was in Puerto Rico last year.
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Trying to see if Venezuela had manipulated the vote in Puerto Rico.
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So the administration has her working on this.
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So my question to you is, what is the pushback?
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What is the recourse?
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For these states because there is a danger that thumbs are being put on scales of the elections in November.
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Well, again, by seeking these election records for no reason.
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They are violating state laws, federal laws.
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And the Constitution.
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And we are in the courts fighting them every step of the way.
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We are also having oversight hearings and investigations as to what is happening here.
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Mark Warner yesterday did a great job questioning what the hell is Tulsi Gabbard doing here?
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She's the head of DNI.
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She's for international intelligence.
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Nothing to do with local.
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They're trying to intimidate local elected officials.
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And another thing we are doing is working with the local elected officials.
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How to avoid this intimidation.
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How to do their jobs.
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You know, we have millions, I guess hundreds of thousands.
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Of local elected officials who are very proud.
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They go to the polling place and make the wheels of democracy work.
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Every election.
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We're not going to let them be intimidated.
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We're going to stand right by them.
Speaker A
So, Leader Schumer, this talk about election security has revived discussions of the SAVE Act.
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Uh, which you have said you oppose.
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Um, proponents of it say that it's, you know, to have ID, you have to prove US citizenship to be able to vote.
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Though some of the claims they make to be clear are overstated.
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We know there's not widespread election fraud.
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But polling does suggest, there's a new Pew Research poll that 95% of Republicans.
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But also 71% of Democrats.
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Like this idea.
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So why do you not?
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Uh,
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it's Jim Crow 2.0.
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And I called it Jim Crow 2.0.
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And the right wing went nuts.
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All over the internet.
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That's because they know it's true.
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What they're trying to do here is the same thing that was done in the South for decades.
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To prevent people of color from voting.
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Uh,
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for instance,
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if you can't, if you change your, you're a woman who got married and changed your last name.
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You won't be able to show ID and you'll be discriminated against.
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If you can't find a birth certificate or a proper ID.
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You'll be discriminated against.
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This is vicious and nasty.
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And I said to our Republican colleagues, it will not pass the Senate.
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You will not get a single Democratic vote in the Senate.
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We're not reviving Jim Crow all over the country.
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And when the American people hear what is exactly it is doing and what its intent is doing.
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They're going to be against it as well.
Speaker A
Well, I, um,
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uh,
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we'll we'll debate that later.
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Uh, certainly about voter ID.
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Uh, but right now, I want to stick with the issue at hand.
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Um,
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and and that has to do with ICE.
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And DHS.
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Even if you cut off the funding, and this is a concern that Mika has brought up a good bit.
Speaker A
Even if you're able to cut off their funding, they have such a massive budget from this past year.
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I'm curious.
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Uh, with all all the healthcare cuts.
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Uh, that are hurting working Americans, middle class Americans.
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With all the cuts that are hurting people in rural America.
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Um, is there any way you can claw back some of those funds?
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And instead of giving it to secret, uh, a secret police force, you can get it back to farmers.
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And people in rural in upstate New York and the middle of Kansas.
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And give them some healthcare relief.
Speaker B
Yeah, what the American, the American people are seeing just what you say, Joe.
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They want money for healthcare.
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And they don't want money going to these rogue police forces all across the country.
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What we can do and what we proposed in the, uh, what Hakeem Jeffries and I came out with.
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Is very simple.
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The restrictions that we want to put on ICE that I mentioned apply not just to the new money that they're trying to get.
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Uh, and we don't want them to have without any restrictions, without restrictions.
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But we'll apply to all the old money as well.
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So the idea of of no masks, the idea of coordinating with your local police team.
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The idea of being allowed to sue will apply to the old money as well.
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And greatly restrict it.
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All right, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York.
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Thank you so much.
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Thank you, Joe.
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And while you're here,
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I just feel.
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Um, I should just say this in front of you and everybody else.
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That today in 1994, Medgar Evers.
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Uh, the the clansman that killed Medgar Evers.
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Medgar Evers.
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Was found guilty of murder.
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And and and faced life imprisonment.
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He died in prison 31 years after he shot Medgar Evers dead in his driveway.
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While his children were inside.
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For those who believe they can act with impunity today.
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And I am not comparing anything to anything.
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I am just saying.
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And Senator, I'm sure you can confirm this.
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I mean, the wills of justice do grind slowly at times.
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Uh,
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but they they do they do move forward.
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And people should not feel like they can act with impunity in the streets of America.
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And gun down Americans and not ultimately face justice.
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You're
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so right, Joe.
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But we have to fight for it every step of the way.
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Particularly with these new dark forces that have come about in America.
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And who really don't believe in democracy, elections, justice or rule of law.
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We have to fight.
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But you are right, there is justice if you fight, fight, fight.
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Even if it takes too long to get there.
Speaker A
All right, still, thank you so much for being with us.
Speaker A
Uh, Senator, we greatly appreciate it.
Speaker B
Thank you, Joe.
Topics:Chuck SchumerICE reformDHS fundingroving patrolssecret policeelection securityvoter ID lawsSAVE Actcivil libertiesvoter suppression
