Soonnelists with us, three to be members of the u. S. Congress who are going to take. He progressive banner and into conflict with the establishment politicians and corporate elites who represent the working families of this country. These are great people who have had great campaigns. Let me introduce them. In acted last night landslide victory, they told us it would be a tough race, rashida. 6633 . S it, 69. Tlaib thank you. I appreciate everything. Is you did about you not become the democratic nominee, but you did not give up on the movement and you continue to support so many of us who are putting people before profits. I cannot thank you enough for not giving up on the movement and continuing to support people like us. Sen. Sanders how can i give up when we have people like you guys . You inspire the American People. An incrediblewon victory. He took on the entire political establishment. A 16 term incumbent and won by not quite as much as rashida. Much,wman not quite as but 15 points. Not too bad. [laughter] sen. Sanders last but not least, the herriman of the moment, from st. Louis, of thei, the heroine moment, from st. Louis, missouri, cori bush. By 16 , but by four points. Ms. Bush yes. I cannot believe it. Sen. Sanders [laughter] well you Better Believe it. Why dont you start us off. I think you have a little bit of a time constraint . Ms. Bush no, im ok. Sen. Sanders ok. This is what i want to discuss. We have plenty of time to do it. Something we all have in common is members of congress were soon to be members of congress, we grew up in workingclass families. I want you all for a moment to think about what impact growing up in a working class family has on your politics. You have been out on the campaign trail as best you could given covid. I know that rashida would have knocked on every door in the district, but couldnt. What are you hearing . Receipt is from detroit. The mall is from rashida is from detroit. Jamaal is from new york. Is from st. Louis. In every case, this is not maligning anyone, but you all were running against established candidates. Where do we go from here . This is the richest country in the history of the world. Excluding technology, great knowledge base, why do we have so much poverty . Why are so many People Living paychecktopaycheck . What is your vision for a new america . Lets begin with our reelected congresswoman from detroit, rashida. Tell us a little bit about your background and how it might have influenced your politics. Uaw tlaib my dad was a worker with a fourth grade education. The first time he felt dignity was when he joined the uaw and he felt the power that he deserved fair wages and health coverage. My mother, eighth grade education. Both palestinian immigrants. Im the oldest of 14 and have been taking care of children my whole life. I was my mothers translator. She understood it but spoke arabic. I would translate for her. I remember going up to the counter to translate for my mom and the cashier one time said, why doesnt she speak english . She should learn english. Her, did you notice i am not translating what you say to her, i am only translating what she says to you because people like you look down on her. She is just trying to have opportunities here that she did not have. I remember being that little back, i now thinking was the first to graduate from high school and college and now i am a u. S. Congresswoman. I did not take corporate pack money to do it or sellout. It is this experience we bring that happens in our policies. It leaves us behind. The pandemic has exposed so much over and over again. It is an honor. , you will still be in awe. Sometimes i walk on the floor and say, oh my god, i cannot believe i am here. But we will go back every week. Congress needs to look and feel different and speak differently. This withoud to bring me, the child of palestinian immigrants, with me when i walk on that floor. Sen. Sanders jamaal, what is your background . Mr. Bowman weight. Wait. Of rashida say she is one 14 . I wassh mr. Bowman raised by a single mom who was a member of the postal union. Projectsusing, housing. Went to Public School my whole life. I grew up in a diverse community. I was lucky. You know how segregated our country is. Diverse grow up in a community, you interact with other people and cultures. With ances growing up single mother during the crack cocaine epidemic and the aids gave me lived experience that has given me a certain level of empathy and compassion as i approach Education First and foremost as a teacher and principal and made me a social justice educator. I was not just about providing quality academically, it was about social and emotional health, andntal interrogating the community about why some lived in concentrated poverty and others did not. Candidate, those lived experiences, i think people are ready to connect with real people. They are tired of politicians speaking this Foreign Language jargon that makes no sense, politicians would have been in office for 30 years are claiming they have all of this power and legacy, while people are still struggling with food and housing insecurity, lack of opportunity, underfunded schools. Everyone across the country from missourito new york to are tired, particularly in this moment with covid happening and movement,lives matter people are tired of the status quo and they are ready to vote people in that they can connect with authentically. This is the politics of love, not fear. Deep, authentic relationships, not transactional politics. That is not what we are about. That is what people are demanding. In terms of a vision for the future sen. Sanders i will go back to that. , did you grow up in st. Louis . Ms. Bush yes. My father has been in politics most of my life. I grew up in a union household. My mother was a computer analyst. But it was not a lot of money. We struggled. Dad with boots to the ground, which is how he taught us. When it was time to campaign for him, we had to knock on every door and shake every hand. We had daddy Daughter Campaign functions. When i got a little older, i had a situation where i had a racist administrator at a school. I was in a student. To howardg to go university. Administratorcist and they yanked the floor from under me and i did not recover. Old anded at 14 years did not get the scholarship to college. It sent me to a different place, working lowwage jobs and ended up homeless with children, payday cycled the fighting and struggling. I can still feel that. It has taken me so long to climb out of it, i finally went back to school and became a nurse but the debt i incurred doing that and then fighting that and fighting medical debt from not being insured, it is so much. And doing it as a single parent, just trying to do it and hoping no one killed my son. My son is now taller than me. They are 19 and 20. I worry about him every day. That fuels me doing this work. Someone has to save our lives. Someone has to speak up and be heroes. To. Sanders let me go back rashida and we will go around. Youris going on with constituents . Detroit has had problems for years. What have you been hearing . I inib i grew up in a diverse community. Uprising feels like home. This is what we are supposed to do to have transformative change. What i hear is, will you be one of those . When you get there, will you sell us out and forget where you came from . And watch usumb die from covid while we bear bail out airlines and banks and corporations . That is what you hear. They want someone who will put them first. Lead with compassion and understanding that they will not be able to go and higher special Interest Groups always. Come to d. C. To lobby like pharmaceutical companies do. They want us to stay connected to them and advocate on their behalf. To the committee hearing, my staff and i, i tell them, we have to bring the district into the room with us. What is going on in the district . Minasian and say, we lost more lack homeownership in michigan than in any other state. Why is that happening . Thrive other communities in, but not black and brown communities . For many of my neighbors, they just do not want us to forget them when we get there. Beginning, from the we made sure to start the canvas in the housing project. We went to Public Housing and started knocking on doors because that is where people have been ignored and marginalized the longest. They just wanted someone they could believe in and connect with. Sen. Sanders so what are you hearing . Public housing has been disinvested in for the last 30 years and has not received a dime from the federal government in 10 years. When you take covid, in new a second covid case happened in new york state. And closed the area the schools and brought in the brought inard and we a testing site and did what we are supposed to do. A Retirement Community took another 23 days to get a testing site. Where black and brown people live took another 50 days. Disparities,about its not just about being poor and black, it is about how we responded once covid hit. Being foodlth care, insecure, our campaign became part of a network that had to get food to people in the middle of a pandemic. Not just because of a failure from the trump administration, but failure top to bottom. Cori, what were you hearing . Ms. Bush health care. Especially in my district, where we areking about predominantly africanamerican, it is starting to change, but there is poverty and we had people who do not have the health care but do not have the access and they cannot afford to go to the doctor there. Situation essential workers were getting sick. I was hearing so many people getting sick and they could not do anything. And sick withd covid symptoms for two months and there was nothing i could do about it. I have hospital bills, doctor bills, the ambulance bills. That is what people are going that,h and on top of people were saying, where is our leader . Not having an active leader makes a difference. In this ticket in this district people people are used than. Treated as less we are changing that. Even though millions are being evicted, we have to stand up for those people now. One difference between liberals and progressives, and we are progressives, is it is not just we are fighting for the right things, we are prepared to take on powerful special interests. Real change never takes place without struggle. That is the history of any real change in america. No one gives you anything. You have to take it and fight for. Months, 500four billionaires have seen their wealth increased by 700 billion in the midst of the pandemic, while your constituents are in desperate conditions, losing their homes, not having any health care, unable to pay their debts. Nation inu make of a the billionaires are becoming richer every day . Many of my colleagues in the senate do not talk about it. The Corporate Media does not talk about it. What do you think . Ready anytime,m any day to take on corporate bullies. Poverty,rceration, housing, access to water, if you open the curtain, it is the same people behind the curtain making pain and of our oppression. I thrive when it comes to exposing people for their corporate greed and showing people they deserve better. It is not that people dont want to talk about it, its that people open the doors to shape policies and decision that allow people in my community to not have access to clean water. People are saying, you come from a major city, what is she talking about, access to clean water. Rep. Tlaib sen. Sanders when i was in detroit, rashida took me around the community. We saw some beautiful kids. High school kids. They dont even have decent books. We were looking at a huge. Tadium a huge billionaire got a huge tax break. Is an area ofere detroit that has tremendous wealth. But two blocks away from a schoolstadium is a high that had to shut down all of their fountains because there was too much lead in the water. This school is two blocks away. They diverted close to 600 million of public tax dollars into the hockey stadium for a billionaire. People said sometimes they dont even have permanent substitute teachers and some teachers have to leave. Leave at 3 00s to to go to her second job. Water, there to are thousands of my neighbors in that are getting their water cut off. We are fighting for water as a human right. We have to keep fighting. People are living without running water. There is a mother whose water dayshut off and the next. Ps came and took her kids away because a place without water is not safe for her kids. It is criminalizing and dehumanizing so for the corporations that think they will make government about them, a bunch of us are coming and we will continue to fight back. We will show people people love them and folks like us deeply deserveause they do not anything less. I am so tired of this amount of pain when they see people make decisions that leave them behind. Sen. Sanders jamaal, when you were talking a moment ago, knocking on the doors in the projects, people do not have power. They do not think their concerns will be addressed. What are your feelings . Andbowman the Political Economic system is genocidal. We are literally killing people for profit. Overve a pandemic with 150,000 deaths. Two weeks ago, jeff bezos made 13 million in a single day and people are on the streets lined up for food pantries trying to feed their families. It is genocidal. Unequal in equal since the conception of the country but when you talk about how if officials have been coopted by the elite, it has gotten worse. I want to challenge everyone who calls themselves a democrat to stop taking corporate money. Do not take money from the military industrial complex, from big pharma or the fossil fuel industry. I believe i am part of something, we are taking the torch from the civil rights movement. Evils wecalled out the are fighting against. Sexism, xenophobia, homophobia is something we are fighting. Pac taking corporate money. Stop feeding industries that are killing us. Or poorre black, brown, you are more likely to get sick and have poor economic and academic outcomes. Sen. Sanders i agree 100 . Viewers, you the who have supported these candidates with your 20 checks or 10 checks, your work has resulted in these guys getting elected. Because what is beginning to happen now is candidates like these can run without being dependent on big money interests. They can speak for the people because they are being funded by the people. Its a big deal. And i want to thank everyone out there who has helped them and others other progressive candidates, as well as me. If the democratic if the democrats had not ganged up on you, you would be the leader of the democratic party. Jump to you, you would be the nominee. Sen. Sanders thank you. Thank all three of you for your support. Cori, the last event we did together was in st. Louis. What is your take on this issue of Corporate Power and inequality . Is that an issue that resonates in your community . Ms. Bush it is. We are looking at privatization. Privatizeey want to our airport. A lot of us work in the Public Sector there. When you change that to private, we lose union and now have to work for lower wages, we could miss out on health care. It breaks down families. Then other people get to profit. Ff of it this widens the disparity we already have. They put a pretty picture around becausey it will help will give more money to the police to make your streets safer. What would actually make our streets safer is if we give more to social workers and therapists and put more care in the health system. That would make the community better. I hefted drive past people sleeping on the streets to get to my campaign office. Families. Drive past people sleeping on the street to get to my campaign office. Families. Care anders is health human right or a privilege and why . Rep. Tlaib it is a right. Month i was elected, a woman came to one of my town halls and said, all of a sudden, her employer said insulin was not preventive medicine. I was like, doesnt it prevent death . It is 2800. Before, less than 300. Worked for the auto industry. I said, ok. Which company . I knew we were still fighting for medicare for all. I put the Mission Statement of the company on top and i said if this is your Mission Statement, why are you doing this to the families that help your companys succeed . A couple months later she went to go pick it up and it was less than 300 again. No one deserves to die because they are poor. No one deserves to not get care. Someone said she lost her mother from breast cancer. She had not gone to the doctor because she did not want the bill. She was so afraid of being bankrupt. No one should be profiting off of our illness and death. Mr. Bowman it is absolutely a human right. Its crazy we even have to have this discussion. My mom is 75. Recently had issues with her kidney and some mild strokes. After serving in the post office for 33 years, being part of the union, retiring with a pretty decent pension, i cannot tell washow much challenging it to get her the Home Health Care afterserved and earned working there for 33 years. My sisters and i came together to provide her with the support she needed. But just as easy as it is for me should be able to get Health Care Access for my mom. Care, Mental Health, so many people are dying from curable diseases because they are underinsured and afraid to go to the doctor. 60,000 americans every year die because they do not go to a doctor when they should. Ms. Bush absolutely it is a human right. Most of my backgrounds being in humidity Health Community health, i have seen people die. People are rationing insulin and sharing it with others. Going against the Doctors Orders and not getting the medication they needed and they would die. They would get their legs cut off and die. Thinking about what it also does your credit, how do we come out of poverty without insurance, that is going to her credit and if i do notlike me have insurance, i am in a spiral of debt. Working as a nurse, i had a patient. A young woman with four children. She made her way to the Public Health clinic. She took public transportation. She was hallucinating. She needed her medicine i needed help. She made it to the clinic and sat in the waiting area or an hour. , whoaw the psychiatrist wrote medication for her. She did not have health insurance. I had to find a way to get her medication. I had to try to find it. We could not get her the medicine that day. Woman whoo tell this came there with her children to get help, we cannot help her. We have to do better. During my Campaign Trip from detroit to canada, a short trip, to buy insulin. Does anyone know the difference in price for insulin in canada compared to the United States . It is 1 10 the price. For the same product made by the same company. Government does not allow the Drug Companies to rebuff their people. They negotiate a reasonable price. In our country because of the power of the pharmaceutical industry, they can charge any price they want. And they do. And they kill people as a result. So i know this sounds radical, but we have to be thinking about, if somebody walks into a store and shoots and kills someone, we say that is a murderer. But somehow if you are the head of a pharmaceutical industry and you raise the prices as high as you can and people die because they dont have the product you need, you are not a murderer, youre a great businessperson. We have to rethink that. We are going to need your help to take on the Drug Companies. They are crooks. They fix prices. In terms of the opioid epidemic, they were pushing their product saying people were not getting addicted. Dont get me started. I want to get to another issue. Before the pandemic, trump was saying Employment Unemployment was low, etc. Meanwhile, half of the people in the country were living paychecktopaycheck. Tens of millions of people working on starvation wages. Rashida, low wages in michigan. Rep. Tlaib absolutely. Before, people did not people were one emergency away from being out on the street. It is so difficult sometimes when you see our neighbors working so hard and at the end we do not it is like think they deserve to be able to retire but it is an issue. Shee in and said was upset at school had closed because thats where kids can eat twice a day. She was in tears. When we had a federal shutdown, people were like, why are federal employees in the food bank line . Do you think they are millionaires . They dont have a check coming in. It is unbelievable how disconnected some people are. Sen. Sanders we have to start focusing on the Major Economic crisis we have. Low wages. In new york city, the cost of housings is off the wall. Mr. Bowman it is off the charts. Nation, we would have the worst economic inequality in the world. That is what is going on in this district. If you are black or brown, you are more likely to be in poverty. Its out of control. Underemployment is out of control. We need to make sure we pay everyone a family sustaining wage in line with the cost of wit thing the cost of living index and make sure they have Vacation Time and universal health care. We need to invest in people who have been ignored for decades and stop investing in the 1 . We should bring the Unemployment Rate down to zero. Sen. Sanders the beauty of a areral jobs program, there enormous needs in the country. We have to rebuild infrastructure and deal with climate change, education, health care. There is a desperate need for workers in the country to help rebuild america. Wages . I, low ms. Bush they are an issue. We worked hard to get 15 an hour and st. Louis city had it and the state came back and took it away. Saying 12 an hour is enough to hour,a family on, 15 an that can still have people struggling, depending on where you live. It should not be too much to ask when people are working 50 hour weeks and then have to go work a second job just to pay the bills. Rent is not going down. Food prices are not going down. People are at risk of utility shut off. People are facing evictions. What do we do with them . Workers, many of them are not working not making 15 an hour. We have a whole group of people making 10 an hour, supporting a family, not getting hazard pay and also the at risk ovulation. At risk population. Sen. Sanders and some of them are not working full time. Ms. Bush parttime jobs. So you cant even get childcare that way. It makes it difficult. So many people are in a place people dont understand what it working low wage where you dont know what is going to happen with your children. I want to get back to education. The future of america. I dont even want to get into what the pandemic has done for the kids in the country. I cant even begin to imagine what this means in terms of intellectual future. About thetle bit quality of schools. What about childcare and college and student debt . What is going on in detroit . Rep. Tlaib talking with the superintendent for the state, we will be in a deficit. The center for budget and policy said we will have a shortfall for school funding. My School District is already two daysbout having rather than five days school weeks because it will be pandemicbecause of the and the loss of revenue from it. Lets say that again so everyone can hear. [laughter] i am trying to help you articulate. [laughter] rep. Tlaib School Districts now , the pandemic is preventing a full opening and there will be huge deficit. They will not be able to have five days a week. The loss of revenue is money they need now. Thats just been the pandemic. Did i do it right . What do you want me to say . Listen, like i think everybody thats listening knows this. Our kids dont come first anywhere. I dont understand. Why is it that people are like oh, my god, look at why are you guys all doing this or that . And not this absurdity of it . And you should you talk about airlines and like oh, my god, we have to take care of the airlines. School districts, like what . And i mean, hes so bizarre. And its that disconnection that we continue to have. Sen. Sanders and they go on telling us how much they love america, except they dont quite love the children of america. Rep. Tlaib ill tell you, kids, especially in detroit, my city, poverty among our children has increased. But its the trauma. Like i think, you know, my colleague, my wonderful sister in service, diana presley, had the House Oversight committee have a hearing just on trauma of children. And talking about how we dont realize the decisions we make, things that are happening how traumatic it is for our children. But right now our kids, per pupil allotment in detroit is literally the same amount that it was 20 years ago. I mean, it just has the increase even though the need has increased. Sen. Sanders and you got a real Teacher Shortage there in detroit, correct . Rep. Tlaib huge. Bernie, i got people literally they have a permanent substitute teacher. And they got obviously oversized classes. But our folks are, you know, im really disturbed. Even though im i have more cops and security than i have social workers and teachers in our schools. And so devastating because jamaal, you know this. One kid, that one incident is like youre going to handcuff them and not sit down and say why are you so angry and whats going on . Were not doing that anymore and dismissing and criminalizing i believe theres a forprofit scheme thats involved in it to make sure that our Public School Education System is failing. Sen. Sanders and jamaal, you are an educator and working with kids much of your adult life. Whats the status of education and what do you want to see happen . Mr. Bowman its definitely a forprofit scheme and genocidal as well. Because not only is the school a prison pipeline but also were medicating kids at a younger age without providing them the supports that they need. And just going back to what you said before, billionaire wealth has grown by over 770 billion. Our schools need half that and we cant get the resources to our schools, right . Its deplorable. Its unacceptable. And in pie opinion, its genocidal. And again, it goes to a system that isnt working for our kids. And one area i want to focus on just really quickly when i talk about a federal jobs garn tee, universal childcare is a part of that equation, particularly Early Childhood. Birth to age 8. Because the brain develops rapidly. 80 by age 3 and if we can help deal with the trauma to rashidas point, between birth and age 3, our kids will be much more ready to enter kind garden at age 5. So universal childcare, federal jobs guarantee focus on Early Childhood educators and caregivers. And growing the care economy overall, more nurses, more teachers, more people providing care that will help to provide the Holistic Education that our kids need. Sen. Sanders what a radical idea you guys are espousing. Worrying about the kids more than the billionaires. Woo all right. Whats coming next . Cori . Whats going on with the kids in st. Louis and missouri . Ms. Bush so schools are closing. You know, this was precovid and schools closing especially in our inner city neighborhoods and we hear that its because of the population decline. But why are people leaving . People are leaving because were not taking care of those communities and funneling resources into those areas. And so people will move because crime is high. People will move. But also, you know, we have schools that still have lead or they may have asbestos. Some of our schools are theyre accredited and some are not accredited and going back and forth. Why are we fighting with creditation in this day and age 2020 . Why is that even an issue . We should be so much further than that. And then we have some School Districts just like i know across in other places where we have the more affluent side. You know, they have all the resources. They have everything that they need. And the district who dont have that those type of that dont have that money coming in, based on property taxes, they dont have those resources. So our children suffer. The thing is why is there a difference made in what the resources that our children have and the way that we help them thrive if its simply based upon dollars . We have children coming to school that are in trauma. We dont trauma informed parents, we have to do that. These f. R. O. s and School Resources officers looking like s. W. A. T. Teams in our school and theyre supposed to learn . I remember my children being a number. I remember asking my children telling me oh, no, dont call me that. It was like 94365 or sen. Sanders what . Ms. Bush yes. Im not teaching you to be a number. This is everything that they did was by their number. And literally like they knew their number more than they knew anything. Whats your teachers name . I dont know. But im 94465. But that were programming our children wrong. So we have to put more money into our School System and i just dont understand and maybe you all can help me with this, but, you know, help me understand about money. Money that was pulled from the federal Education System and that now sits in private prisons . You know, i just dont understand and that started years ago. I just dont understand how we can do that and so were over incarcerated and undereducating our students. Missouri stays like a d for education. In this country. Were like number 45, 46, 47, something we go back and forth. Why are we so low on the list . And the thing is missouris best schools get to be a d. Like the best the best we have, gives us a d across the country. Rep. Tlaib the number one budget for the state of michigan is corrections. Sen. Sanders which takes us all right. Im going to go there. Thats where i wanted to go, all right . E got more people in jail. Than any other cent on earth. More than communist china which is four times our size, disproportionately africanamerican, latino, and native american. Simultaneously, we have the highest rate of childhood poverty of almost any major country on earth. You all describe the appalling challenges that Public Schools are facing today. All right. Why do we have more people in jail than any other country . What are we going to do about criminal Justice Reform . Who wants to start off . Ms. Bush do you smell that . Corporate greed. They make money off of the cell phone service, the food, the uniforms they have to wear. Everything is contracted out. All for profit. Even how they do it is but its so evident that theyre making money off incarcerating our people. The more they have, the more money they make. Theyre literally building wanting to build a jail in my city where they want to go the fact that we have lead in our water. Its you know, and children cant learn if theyre being poisoned. They just cant. Any amount of lead is not safe. And our kids, you know, studies show that kids have a hard time learning when theyre getting sick and theyre not able to truly be able to develop their brains properly. But yeah. I mean, bernie, the same thing. You open that curtain the same thing. Theyre making money. Theyre making money off our pain and making money and imprisoning our brothers, sisters, relatives. When covid happened, i knew i had a high number of folks that were impacted by mass incarceration but when covid happened, my phone would not stop ringing of people saying please, get my son out. Please, my uncle is in there. This is a death sentence. You know, he just he just got a suspended drivers license and please take him out because hes going to die if he gets covid. Sen. Sanders and in fact, we have a live stream on this a few months ago, i dont know what the number is now. At least 500, somebody correct me if im wrong, 500 people in jail in the United States have died already from covid. I think thats a conservative number. All right, jamaal, say a few words. Why do we have more people in jail . How do we reform what is clearly a broken and racist criminal Justice System . Mr. Bowman well, according to the 13th amendment, slavery is allowed to continue when youre in prison, when youre incarcerated. So a legacy of slavery. Mass incarceration and Police Brutality are part of the legacy of slavery. So were targeting poor communities and communities of color. Weve underresourced them and neglected them. Weve underfunded their schools. Weve miseducated them and taken resources away and taken jobs away and add police. So that we can incarcerate people and allow them to work for pretty much no wages. So it is a forprofit industry. Its a slavedriven industry. And its a legacy of racism that continues to live in our country as part of all of americas institutions. Structural racism lives within every american institution. And we have to deal with it honestly, exclusively and urgently and mass incarceration is a big part of that. And what were talking about, love and care, and compassion, and empathy, and true Public Health and Public Safety and the wellbeing of our people is something that our country hasnt spoken about for a very long time. So its good to be a part of a movement, our movement, thats going to create a country that centers the wellbeing of everyone versus what weve been doing the last 40 years. Sen. Sanders cori, what about criminal justice . You obviously were actively involved in ferguson. Talk a little bit about what youre seeing, what you want to see. Ms. Bush im going to say i agree totally with rashida and jamaal with you all were talking like that being the reason. And i think that also, i can add that when we have when theres no real police accountability, you know, how do people get to the point to where they are in prison . Locally, we were able to work activists were able to work to close one of our Media Security institutions. It had rats and mold and it was just really deplorable conditions. And it was inhumane to have People Living that way. Especially while they were people that hadnt even been convicted of anything. People who hadnt seen seen any kind of a judge, they were there because they didnt have the 300 or they they could have been at home waiting waiting for court but instead they were spending a year in this prison, in this lockup away sen. Sanders because they didnt have bail, is that because ms. Bush they didnt have the bail. I want to stop on that one note. Because i dont think a whole lot of people know this. I got to condition fess i confess i didnt know this until a few years ago. We have about two Million People behind bars tonight. And 20 of those people have not been convicted of anything. They are there because rep. Tlaib 700,000. Sen. Sanders is that what it is . Rep. Tlaib im helping you out, bernie. Sen. Sanders all right. Rep. Tlaib 700,000 are literally right now that are havent been convicted of crime or anything. They just cant afford bail. During a pandemic, theyre still in some states, they havent let them out. And like again, just they cant afford it. We raise money cori, jamaal, youll get contacted by local groups and reached out to me. We raised like 20,000 just for mothers day to bail out mothers, on mothers day that could be with their family. Its just devastating. Sen. Sanders all right. Cori, before you were rudely interrupted by rashida, youll get used to that. Ms. Bush oh, my god, bernie. I was just helping. Thats all. [laughter] but yeah. So when we do that, when we so were stopping people, you know, were Holding People that shouldnt be held. And then so that so sometimes that causes an issue. Because then, you know, you put people into this cycle, you know, the other thing is we have people who are once they are the recidivism programs that we have. And once people are released from prison, where are we sending them to . You know, i had patients who will come to me they had to see me within 30 days of being released from prison, from the department of corrections. And they will come to me for Mental Health services and what they will say to me is nurse, i want to go back. I want to go back because, you know, its too fast. Upe, my kids wont talk to me and ive been at work for 10 eyears and dont know me anymore and my spouse wont talk to me and they dont have family and like im going to go do something that i can go back to jail. Ive had patients come to my office and say, you know what . You told me to let you know the day i was going to kill my family. Today is that day and walk away and then but that that is the other thing. Were not taking care of people when they are released from prison. We dont connect them people learned a skill or while they were in prison and are we connecting them to that same opportunity once theyre out of prison . Are we making sure senator sanders, i love your platform. Are we what are we doing with our a. C. C. Use and putting those programs inside the prisons, those degree programs in the prisons so people with come out with a real job, you know . Sen. Sanders all right. Weve covered a lot of ground. And on a personal note, let me thank you all for being with us tonight. But i am very excited about continuing to work with rashida when she allows me to say a few words. Rep. Tlaib oh, my god. Im going to get you back for this. [laughter] ms. Bush he has torn you up tonight, rashida. Rep. Tlaib and like youre crying again. Oh, my sen. Sanders i want to thank rashida. You all note i you did not hear one word of profanity for an hour. This is an alltime because i didnt mention our distinguished president. I did not mention him. Because that would get rashida off and running. And the show would be off the air or something [laughter] but jamaal and cori, im very excited about both of you being there. You are representing your constituents. God only knows we have an enormous amount of work to do. And i look forward to working with you. Ok. Thank you all so much. Mr. Bowman cori cori cori ms. Bush im happy and excited to work with you all. Bye. Rep. Tlaib good night. Ms. Bush love . Announcer cspans washington journal. Every day were taking your calls live on the air on the news of the day. And well discuss policy issues that impact you. Coming up thursday morning, well discuss the 75th anniversary of the u. S. 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