Senator sanders these are great people who have run great campaigns. And let me introduce them to you. Reelected last night in a landslide victory, they told us t was going to be a tough race 6633 . Ms. Tlaib 69. I appreciate it. What i love about you, you didnt become the democratic nominee but didnt give up on this movement and you continue to support so many of us that are speaking truth and putting people before profit and i cant thank you enough for not giving up on this movement. Senator sanders you took a as erm incumbent and not as much. Not bad. Senator sanders not too bad. And we have the hero from st. Louis missouri where they dont have progressive policies and cory bush knows what an upset victory and took on a 10term. She didnt win by 15 but she won, 4. 6 points. Yes, i cant believe it. [laughter] senator sanders believe it. Better believe it. We have three great people here. Cory, i think you have a time constraint, do you . We have to get you out earlier . This is what i would like to discuss and plenty of time to do it. And one of the things that all four of us have in common as members of congress or soontobe members of congress is we grew up in working class families, we all did. I want you to think about what impact growing up in a workingclass family have on your politics and talk about if you could, you have been out on the campaign trail as best you pandemic. The covid rachid tlaib. Jamal is from new york and im from vermont. Whats coming . What are people talking about and why do you think in every instance, people were prepared to vote for a progressive candidate and put aside stablishment candidates. This is not maligning anybody but you are running against establishment candidates and the last question i want you to think about in this line of discussion is where do we go from here . This is the richest country in the history of the world. We have exploding technology and why do we have so much poverty and why are so many People Living paychecktopaycheck. Lets start off with our eelected congresswoman from detroit. Talk about your background. Tlaib my dad was a u. A. W. Worker and only fourth grade education. First time he felt he had dignity is when he joined the u. A. W. And he deserved fair wages. My mother only eighth grade and both palestinian. Im the eldest of 14. And i was my mothers translator and going up to the counters and she under stood english senator sanders what did she speak . Ms. Tlaib arabic. I remember being at sears and i remember going up to the counter and translate for my mom and the cashier said, why doesnt she speak english and she should learn english. Im only translating what she wants to say to you. People like you look down on her and she is trying and trying to have the opportunities that she didnt have. And i remember being that little girl and now thinking back like my parents, first to graduate from high school and college and now im a friken United States congresswoman. I didnt take corporate pac money to do it. And its this experience that what happens in our policies and what happens in culture of these policies that doesnt give us a fair shot. You see it in the pandemic and has been exposed. But bernie, it is an honor. You will still be in awe and aisle walk on on that floor and say oh my god. We are going to home every week and stay close to the pain. Not that Congress Needs to look different but look and speak differently. Im proud that i bring that experience of being the eldest of 14 and part of the u. A. W. , all of that when i come to the house floor. Senator sanders jamal, what is your back grouped and how does that influence your politics . Did she say she was the eldest of 15 . Ms. Tlaib 14. Ou got to meet them. [laughter] well, im the middle child. I have four sisters, two over and two younger, raised by a single mom who worked in the post office and member of the postal union. Lived in housing projects and represent stabilized projects and i was lucky because i grew up in a Diverse Community. We didnt know how segregated our country was. Every city, state and town is segregated but when you grow up in a Diverse Community you connect with people from all parts of the world. Growing up during the crack cocaine epidemic which ravaged black and brown cities and the aids crisis was around and growing up in a Diverse Community gave me a certain level of empathy and compassion as i approach education, teacher, principal and maybe a social justice educator. I wasnt just about providing a. M. Democratics but social and interrogating nd the integrating the communities and why were in poverty and others were not. That question drew how i approached education from the very beginning. S a candidate, those experiences to rachids point. Makes no red to sense. Politicians who have been in office for five, 10, 20, 30 years claiming that they have all this power and legacy while people are struggling in poverty and food insecurity, housing insecurity, lack of opportunity. So, i think everyone across the country from michigan to new york to missouri are tired particularly in this moment with covid happening and the black lives matter movement, people are tired of the same old same old and vote people in they can connect with very authenticically. This is a politics of love, not of fear and this is about deep authentic relationships, not about transactional politics. Not what we are about. I think thats what people are ready for and people are demanding. In terms of the vision for the future senator sanders hold off on t one, cory, how does your did you grow up in st. Louis . Born and raised. My father has been in politics most of my life but he was a Union Meat Cutter and i grew up in this household. My mother was a computer analyst, they still wasnt a lot of money. We still had our struggles. But i found my dad, person by person reach people. He was boots to the ground. We had to knock on every door when it was time to campaign for him and shake every hand. We didnt do this to the food place that daddy daughters do, to the bank quiet. But when i got a little older, i d a situation i had a racist administrator at my school, i was a a student. I was going to go to howard university. But what happened, i had this racist administrator and this person yanked the floor from up under me and i didnt recover and i spiraled at 14 years old and didnt get the Scholarship College and sent me and i worked lowwage jobs, homeless. Th two children, uninsured just really fighting and really struggling. So i can still feel that, because it has been long for me to climb out of that. I went back to school and became a nurse. But the debt that i incurred doing that and fighting that and fighting medical debt not having insurance. It is so much and doing that as a single parent, you know trying o do that and senator sanders how old are your kids . 19 and 20. My son is taller than me and has a moustache. I worry about him. That fuels me for doing this work. Someone has to speak up and be fearless. Sen. Sanders let me go back to rashida and we will go around. What is going on with your constituents . Detroit has had problems for years. What have you been hearing . Rep. Tlaib i grew up in i in a Diverse Community. This 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 . Well you go numb and watch us die from covid while we 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 and go and hire special Interest Groups always. Not all can come to d. C. To lobby like pharmaceutical companies do. They want us to stay connected and advocate eak on their behalf. Very time i go to the floor to speak or go to a 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 . And then go after mnuchin and those folks and say, this is happening. We last more black homeownership in michigan, literally, than any state. Whats going on there . Happening . Why are other communities thrive in, but not black and brown communities . For many of my neighbors, bernie, they just do not want us to forget them when we get there. Jamaal. Sanders mr. Bowman from the beginning, 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. Senator sanders what you and both ra shfshgs is that politicians hearing . Bouman mr. Bowman correct. Public housing has been disinvested in for the last 30 years and has not received a dime from the federal government in 10 years. Covid, for e example, in new rochelle, an upper middle class district of rochelle, thats where the second covid case happened in new york state. Because the case was upper we contained the area, we closed the schools, we brought in the national guard, food, we brought in a testing site. We did what we were supposed to do. The largest naturally retirement world took the another 23 days to get a testing site. Yonkers, mount vernon, where black people live took another 50 days to get a testing site. When we talk about disparities, its not just about being poor black in this country, its how we responded once covid hit. Lack of health care, being food 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. Emocrats and republicans in response to this republican. Senator sanders cori, what were you hearing on the campaign trail . Ms. Bush oh, my goodness. So health care was a huge issue, especially in my district where were talking about people with aderlying you know, we are predominantly africanamerican district. Thats starting to change right now as we speak. But predominantly wherenamerican community 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. That are people essential workers. Of course, they were the ones going to work getting sick. Those in the Nursing Homes were the ones getting sick. About it . E do i was hearing so many people getting sick and they couldnt do anything. Myself. I was uninsured and i was sick with covid symptoms for two months and there was nothing i could do about it. Of hospital acks bills right now, the doctor bills and the ambulance bills. That is what people are going through and on top of that, all of those things that jamaal said, we had that here too. People were saying, where is our leader . Where is our congressperson . Not having an active leader makes a difference. In this district people people are used to be treated as less than. We are changing that. To know where 40,000 people being evicted, we have to stand up for those people right now. Sen. Sanders 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. In the last four months, 500 billionaires have seen their wealth increased by 700 billion in the midst of the pandemic, all described e your constituents are in conditions. Losing their homes, not having any health care, unable to pay debts. What do you make of a nation in own more thanople the bottom half and the billionaires are becoming richer day . Is it an issue . Colleagues in the senate doesnt talk about it. The Corporate Media does not talk about it. What do you think . Rashida . Rep. Tlaib i am ready anytime, any day to take on corporate bullies. If its mass incarceration, poverty, housing, district, ater in my if you open the curtain, it is the same people behind the curtain making money off of our pain and oppression. Debt, our sicknesses. Know, i thrive when it comes to exposing people for their corporate greed and showing people they deserve better. Ill tell you, the tainting of process is real, yall. I have been there a year and a half and i see it. 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. Senator sanders rashida there and you come from amajor city, detroit, mean access to clean water . Say a word about that. Ms. Tlaib see, he still mentors me. Beat a poll that says ill her 21. Throw the poll away focus. I tell my team, bernie says put it away. Senator sanders also, when i to aut in detroit, we went very interesting day. Around the me community and i wont forget what i saw. We saw some beautiful, beautiful kids. High school they dont even have decent books. Meanwhile, we were looking at huge stadium with a billionaire that got a huge tax break, right . Ms. Tlaib just for folks to know, there are about 7. 2 miles detroit that has got this tremendous wealth. You see development and all this. Translating tually in combating poverty, translating in improving or les lives immediately anything like that. Two blocks away from this hockey caesars arenale is a high School Called caztec to shut down all their fountains because there was too much lead in the water. This is a school thats two blocks away. They diverted, you know, close public tax ion of dollars into a forprofit hockey stadium for a billionaire. Talking to a u. S. Senator, bernie saw it, we dont teachers, permanent teachers, we dont have books. One said, mys when teacher has to rush out the door go to0 because she has to her second job because she cant because of the pay. When it comes to water, there are thousands of my neighbors in really throughout wayne county in michigan that off etting their water cut for less than 500 or so and increased. Portability is like 30 increase. Were fighting water for a human fund. As you know, senator, even leader schumer has been out there. To fight for it. People are living without running water. Brightmore from my neighborhood, a mother, her day. Got shut off one cori, Child Protective Services came and got her kids. Her kids, because its not a safe place for her kids. In this country is criminalizing. Dehumanizing. And so for all the corporate bullies and the corporations to makenk theyre going government about them, theres a bunch of us coming and our squad bigger andbigger and well continue to fight back against that and were going to show people what they deserve. Jamaal said, love of politics politics of love. Thate going to show people there are folks that love them. That there are folks like us their eply care about wellbeing. Because they dont deserve anything less, bernie. This o tired of folks in amount of pain and hurt right now when they see us folks decisions that leave them behind. Senator sanders jamaal, what the power of bout a nation ate elite of little . Much have so its not only economic but its powerlessness. You knock on the doors of projects. No power. E they dont believe that anything that any of their concerns is addressed. Jamaal, whats your feeling that . And owman our Political Economic system is genocidal. Were literally killing people for profit. We have a pandemic with over 150,000 deaths. Billionaire and plat has grown. 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. Its been unequal since the inception of this country but you he last 40 years when talk about big money in politics nd how our elected officials have been coopted by the elite, its gotten worse. I want to challenge everyone themselves a democrat to stop taking corporate p. A. C. Money. Take money from the military industrial complex. Dont take money from big pharma and do not take money from the fossil fuel industry. And also big real estate. At the very least. I believe i am a part of something where were taking a and torch from the Civil Rights Movement and dr. King alled out militarism, capitalism, racism, thats the three evils we were fighting against. Sexism, l add ntisemitism, homophobeia, xenophobia, islamaphobia something we want to defeat time. This democrat colleagues, stop taking orporate p. A. C. Money, stop from stop feeding industries that are killing us. If you are black, brown, or poor you are more likely to get sick and have poor economic and academic outcomes. Sen. Sanders i agree 100 . I say this to the viewers, you 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 can l and rashida and cori run without being dependent on big money interests. They can speak for the people because they are being funded by the people. Thats part of a political evolution. Its a big deal. Everyone out thank there thats helped these guys and so many other progressive candidates as well as myself. Cori. Mr. Bowman can i say one thing we go to you . By if the democratic establishment didnt gang up on you and jump you would have been the nominee for the democratic party. Outraised everyone. You were killing them. They had to jump you in order to you. I want to say that out right. If they didnt jump you, you would have been the nominee. To say that. My bad. Go ahead. Veryor sanders thank you much, jamaal. Thank you for supporting us. Cori, the last event we did before we had to stop because of louis. Us was in st. Cori, whats your take on this power of orporate income wealth and inequality, is that an issue that resonates in community . Ms. Bush it is. We are looking at privatization. Locally they want to privatize our airport. So lets just take that. When we privatize our airports, know, looking at people that look like me in this district, a public s work in the sector. When you change that to when you privatize that, then we lose unions. Were going to lose now we have to work for lower wages. On health care. You know, that changes families. That breaks down families right here in our communities. While there are people that get he profit and benefit off it and bring their cousins in and this. Its this situation that widens the disparities that we already have here. Then then they put this pretty picture, a frame around say, well, it will help because well give money to the and make our streets safer. No. What will make our streets safer s if police are being policed and if we put social workers, you know, out. We give more workers. More therapists. We put trauma care in our School Health care systems and that will make the community better. Not having these people that get every single time they get a contract and while we have people out on the street right drive past them to get to my campaign office, sleeping on the street, every day. E families. Senator sanders all right. Et me move in a different direction. I want to think of the future to envision a new america. Health care a human right or is it a privilege . Why . Is it, rashida . S. Tlaib absolutely its a right. Health care let me tell yall. The first month i was elected, i young woman came to one of came up tols and she me and said all of a sudden her mployer said that insulin wasnt preventive care, it wasnt preventive medicine. Said, doesnt it prevent death . And i said, how much you pay . 2,800. Before, i was only paying less than 300 which is still a lot. Works for the auto industry. Ok. Id tell me which company it is. I know were fighting for know. Re for all, as you probably the closest we can get to universal health care. I used the power of my letterhead. The Mission Statement of the company on top. I said if this is your mission are you , then why doing this to your families that work for you, that help your and she told me a couple months later, i went to pick it up and it was less than again. I say this all when youre asking why, its because this deserves to die because youre too poor. To feel less s than and to not get care. About some i love of any new class members, one said, i lost my mother because she didnt she had breast cancer. Later. Nd out she never went to the doctor because she didnt want that bill. She was so afraid of going bankrupt. We got to make it a human right. We have to make it accessible to everyone. Should be profiting off f our illnesses, off of our deaths. Senator sanders jamaal, a right . Mr. Bowman you know, its crazy we have to have this discussion. Is 77 years old, had issues with her kidneys and a couple of mild strokes. After serving in the post office part of the being union, retiring with a pretty decent pension, i couldnt tell it was for lenging like six to eight months to get my mother the Home Health Care she she deserved, that earned after working in the post years. For 33 and i lly, my sisters came together to provide for her support she needed. But just as easy as it is for me to dial 911, i should be able to get Health Care Access for my mom. And everyone in this country should be able to get health families. S for their not just in terms of longterm care, but were talking about other terrible diseases, so many people are dying from curable diseases theyre uninsured or underinsured and theyre afraid to go to the doctor. Senator sanders its an unbelievable number. Cruelty,t ugliness and 60,000 americans every year die because they dont get to a doctor when they should. Human right . Care a ms. Bush absolutely it is a human right. Nurse and most of my background being in community health, ive seen my patients die because they didnt have care. My patients were rationing their insulin and not only rationing but then sharing it with a cousin. The totally going against Doctors Orders and they werent getting the medication they needed and so they would die, get a foot cut off and a leg and they would die. Thinking about what it also does your credit, how do we come out of poverty if we dont have insurance, thats always on our thats going to credit. Me, if i am a ke black woman making 61 cent on my dollar i dont get whole dollar, and on top if i dont have insurance, then that ofey is im in the spiral then, just thinking about myself, working as a nurse, i remember having a patient. Was a young woman. Children. Ur this woman made her way to the Mental Health clinic. Took Public Transportation with these four children. She was active leija louis nating. Well. S not she needed her medicine. She made it all the way to the clinic. Area for the waiting an hour and a half. In to a y got her psychiatrist. She was so happy because she was there. Walked into my office. The issue was she didnt have tolth insurance and so i had find a way to get her medication. 3,600 worth of medication. Try to find that. Then the problem was those particular medications we day. Nt give her that i had to tell this woman that had these children that were of aming and jumping off everything. She was just trying to get help. She came to the clinic to get help and we couldnt help her. To do better because we did not do her a service nor those children a service. Senator sanders im taking may recall, i took a trip over from detroit, from bunch of folks from the midwest into canada, 10, 15 miles into canada. Short trip. To buy insulin. About, were talking rashida. Anybody knows the difference in in canada nsulin compared to the United States . Ou know what the differential is . Its 1 10 the price. 10 for the same exact product made by the same exact company. Canada,ce being that in their government does not allow the Drug Companies to rip off their people. A reasonable price. As you know in our country, the se of the power of pharmaceutical industry, they can charge any price that they want. And they do. Kill people as a result. F somebody goes into a store and shoots somebody you say youre a murderer. You are a pharmaceutical industry and you raise prices as high as you can and people die dont have the product they need, what are you . Are you a murderer . No. Great business person, right . I think we have to rethink that type of stuff. Right. And believe me, were going to have to cori, were going to help. Our jamaal, we are going to need your help to take on these Drug Companies. They are crooks. In price fixing. In terms of the Opioid Epidemic hat we have seen, they were pushing their product all over this country knowingly, knowing hat people were getting addicted. Dont get me onto the Drug Companies. Rder you wont get a chance to talk. Before the pandemic trump was saying, you know, unemployment is low. A great economy, working great for the africanamerican da. Unity, da, da, meanwhile, before the pandemic, half of the people in this living were paychecktopaycheck. Ens of millions of people worked on starvation wages. Rashida, what about low wages in michigan, an issue . Ms. Tlaib absolutely. My folks are check by check. The third poorest Congressional District in the country. Starving. People are before, people didnt understand when i said im literally people, they are one emergency away from, you know, completely just being, you know, in the streets. It is so difficult sometimes know, our e, you neighbors working so incredibly hard. You know, of the day, its like we dont have their back. Deserve think they Health Coverage or be able to retire at a decent age or nything like that but its absolutely an issue. Its hard. I had a mother come in, an early education, they closed it door. She was in tears. Whats wrong . Are you ok . Understand. Thats the place that i my kids can eat twice a day. How much theyre suffering. And im so tired. The first week, bernie, they had the federal shutdown, did you remember this . Arecolleagues are like, why the federal employees at the food bank line . There . E they doing over because. What are you talking about . You think theyre millionaires like you . Wrong with yall . I dont understand. Because they dont have money. They dont have a check coming in. Unbelievable how disconnected some people are. We tor sanders i think have got to start focusing, in Major Economic crisis we have. Alking about the pandemic, low wages. Jamaal, in new york city, wall, right . F the mr. Bowman its off the charts. If we were the nation, we would have the eighth worst economic in the world. Thats going on in this district. Of course, if youre black or likely to re more live in poverty. We also have the highest number of w. I. C. Recipients of any ongressional district in the country. So its completely out of control. Unemployment and underemployment is out of control. Where i support a federal guarantee, making sure a pay everyone familysustaining wage and align it with the cost of living index can afford people their housing, their food. Leave. Rn sick they earn vacation time. And they have universal health care. Invest in people who have been disenfranchised, ignored for d decades and stop investing in and. 1 . I think we can do that through a true federal jobs guarantee. Unemployment down to zero, not at 9 or 6 where we at 6 . Ts ok to be senator sanders and the beauty f a federal jobs program were not talking about make work here. We are not talking about giving somebody a shovel and dig a hole. Are enormous needs in this country. We have to rebuild our infrastructure. With climate l change. We got to deal with education. With health care. A desperate need for workers in this country to help rebuild america. Cori. Get to cori, michigan is low wages, are issue . Es an ms. Bush yes, low wages are an issue. Hard to get 15 an hour and st. Louis city had state came back and made a decision to take it away. But we did get we did it. Something out of saying 12 an hour is enough to not. A family on, its 15 an hour, even though thats what a lot of us have been for, that still can have people struggling, depending on where you live. It shouldnt be too much to ask for when we have people who are working people 50hour weeks and then have to work a second job just to be able to pay the bills. Rent is were not not going down. You know, food prices are not going down. Who arepeople right now at risk for utility shutoffs. Some who have had sh shutoffs. You know, people facing these evickss. Evictions. What do we do with those people . Workers, many of them werent making 15 an hour. Making 9, 10 an hour. We have a whole group of people hour, supporting a family, not getting any kind of people ay and the same who are also the atrisk population. Senator sanders some of those theyre making 8, workingur, they are not full time. Time . Part ms. Bush ms. Bush you cant get childcare that way. That really makes it difficult. Many people that are in just in a place where people dont understand, if you been some people that havent been there may not really understand. Ive been there. Thats like, working low wage and you dont know hats going to happen to your children. Senator sanders all right. I want to get back to another enormous h is of consequence and that is education, the future of america. Nd i dont even want to get into what this pandemic has done to kids in this country. I dont know. Grandchildren. Kids are not going to school. I cant even begin to imagine terms of means in futures. Ellectual but talk a little bit, rashida, schools nowality of where attracting the best and educators, t to be what about childcare . What about college . What about student debt . Hats going on in the detroit area . To tlaib right now, talking our supervisor intendant for superintentent for the center for nk the budget and policy said well have a shortball of 3035 nationally for education. Folks in my School District were talking about having two day rather than fiveday school week because they know its not going to be possible. Not just because of the pandemic, but because of the revenue the loss of from the pandemic. Senator sanders lets say that again. I want everybody to hear. United states of america, ealthiest ms. Tlaib he does this jamaal. Hell get used to it. Senator sanders im helping articulate it. Ms. Tlaib bernie, im letting know what ids happens. Ok. Senator sanders its hard raising kids, isnt it . Trying to raise her and look what i get. Ms. Tlaib youre talking about School Districts right now that are talking about, one, you is , obviously the pandemic preventing a full opening. Also, theyre already seeing going to be huge deficits. They cant have fiveday week schools. They are talking about two days again, the loss of revenue, 305 billion they need right now. Far. S the estimation so thats with the pandemic. Ts been now six, seven eight months. Did i do it right . Did i do it right . Senator sanders that was pretty good. Ms. Tlaib what do you want me say . Listen, i think everybody thats listening knows this our kids dont come first anywhere. I dont understand. Like, oh, eople are my god. Look. Why are you guys doing this or and not the absurdity of it. Airlines. Bout oh, my gosh, we have to save the airlines. Districts. Theyre like what . Its so bizarre and the we have. Tion senator sanders and they going on telling us how much they love they dont quite love the children of america. Ms. Tlaib i tell you, kids, detroit, my city, poverty among our children has increased. The trauma. I think my colleague, my service, sister in presley, she na was talking about the decisions how traumatic it is for our children. Ight now our kids, i mean, allotment in detroit, its literally the same amount it was in 20 years. Hasnt increased even though the demand the need is increase. Senator sanders you have a shortage in detroit, correct . Huge. Aib they have a permanent substitute teacher and they have oversized classes. Are, you know im disturbed. Even though i have more security than i have social schools. Nd teachers in its so devastating because, you know, jamaal, you know this, the one incident. Its like, youre going to them . Ff why are you so angry . Whats going on . We are not doing that anymore. And dismissing criminalizele. Why criminalizing. Why . Forprofit ere is a scheme to make sure our Education System is failing. Senator sanders jamaal, you educator. You have been working with kids much of your adult life. Whats the status of education . To see happen . T mr. Bowman yeah, its definitely a forprofit scheme. Also genocidal as well. We its only are a school to prisonline, but we but prison pipeline, were not providing the Mental Health support they need. Back what you said before. Billionaire growth has grown by 770 billion. Schools need half that. And we cant get the resources right . Schools, its deplorable. Ts unacceptable, and in my opinion, its genocidal. And, again, it goes to a system working for our kids. One area i want to focus on just talk quickly when i about a federal jobs guarantee, is part of ildcare that equation. Particularly early childhood. Age 8. O because the brain develops if wey, 80 by age 3, and can help deal with the trauma, between as point, birth and age 3, our kids would enter more ready to kindergarten at age 5. On early educators and caregivers. Nd more nurses, more teachers, more people providing care, that will help provide the Holistic Education that our kids need. Senator sanders what a radical aress powsing spousing, worrying about the kids more than the billionaires. Whats going on next . With the s going on missouri . Louis and ms. Bush schools are closing. Precovid, schools are closing areas. Inner city we hear its because of the population decline. Leaving . Re people people are leaving because were not taking care of those ommunities and funneling resources into those areas. So people will move because crime is high. Move. Will but also, you know, we have lead or hat still have possibly may have asbestos. Schools some of our are they are accredited. Accredited. They go back and forth. Why are we fighting with accreditation in this day and in 2020 . Is it even an issue. That. Uld be further than we have some School Districts, i know across in other places more affluent he side, they have all the resources. Hey have everything that they need. The districts who dont have those type of that dont have coming in, based on property taxes, they dont have those resources. Suffer. Hildren the thing is, all why is there a difference made in what our children that have and the way that we help them thrive, you know, if its upon dollars . We have children coming to school that are in trauma. Have Trauma Informed Care in our schools. We have these f. R. O. s, these resource officers thats in schools looking like swat teams. Schools. S in our our children are supposed to lirn . I learn . Remember my children being a number. I remember my children saying, dont call me in a. 94365. Ke the i am not teaching you to be a number. This is not everything that did was by their number. And it literally, they knew they knewer more than anything. Whats your teachers name . I dont know. I am 94365. We are programming our children. Put more money into our school system. I dont understand. Maybe yall can help me with this. About understand money money that was pulled from the federal education sits in d that now private prisons . I just dont understand. Ago. Started years i just dont understand how we can do that and so were overincarcerating and our students. Missouri stays like about a d for education. Country. In this were like number 45, 46, 47, Something Like we go back and forth. Why are we so low on the list . The thing is, missouris best d. Ools get to be a like the best you can the best we have gives us a d across country. Ms. Tlaib the number one budget just for the state of michigan is corrections. Senator sanders all right. Im going to go there. I want thats where i wanted to go. Ok. We have more people in jail and a country on earth, more than communist china, which times our size. Disproportionately fricanamerican, latino, and native american. Simultaneously, we have the childhood te of poverty of almost any major country on earth. Appalling cribed the challenges that Public Schools are facing today. All right. People in ave more jail than any other country . What are we going to do about reform . Justice who wants to start off. Ms. Tlaib you smell that, thats called corporate greed. How many times i have to tell you. They make money off the cell hone service, the food, the uniforms they have to wear, everything is contracted out. Profit. For even how they do it, its so theyre making money off incarcerating our people. The more they have, the more make. They theyre literally wanting to my city. Ail in they dont want to fix lead in our water. Children cant learn if theyre poisoned. They just cant. Any amount of lead is not safe. Nd our kids, you know, studies show that kids have a hard time lead, g when they have theyre getting sick and theyre their ly able to develop brains properly. Yeah, bernie, its the same thing. The pen that curtain, its same thing. They theyre making money off our ain and making money imprisoning our brothers and sisters. When covid happened, i knew i number of people impacted. Happened, theyre like, please, get my son out . Get my uncle out. A suspended drivers license. Please, take him out. He gets covid. Senator sanders and in fact, i what the numbers are now. Its 500. Im ody correct me if wrong. 500 people in jail in the United States have already died from covid. Thats a conservative number. Jamaal, say a few words. In do we have more people jail . How do we reform whats clearly a broken and racist criminal system . Mr. Bowman well, according to he 13th amendment, slavery is allowed to continue when youre in prison, when youre incarcerated. Of slavery. Y mass incarceration and police legacyty are part of the of slavery. So were targeting poor ommunities and communities of color. We have underresourced them. We neglected them. Underfunded their schools. Weve taken resources away, jobs away and add police so we can incarcerate people and pretty em to work for much no wages. So it is a forprofit industry. A slavedriven industry. Racism thategacy of continues to live in our country s part of all of americas institutions. Structural racism lives within every american institution. It, e have to deal with honestly, explicitly and urgently, and mass incarceration part of that. What were talking about, love and care and compassion and true Public Health and Public Safety and the is being of our people something that our country hasnt spoken about for a long time. Good to be part of a movement, our movement thats going to create a country that wellbeing of everyone versus what weve been doing the last 40 years. Enator sanders cori, what about criminal justice . I know you, obviously, were actively involved in ferguson. Little bit about what youre seeing, what you want to see. I am going to say i agree totally with rashida and what you all were talking about. That being the reason. Think, also, i can add that when we have when police no real accountability, how do people get to the point where they are prison . Locally, we were able to work activists were able to work to our medium security institutions. It was ats and mold and just really deplorable conditions. It was inhumane to have people that way. Especially why they were while people hadnt been anything. Of people that hadnt seen any kind of a judge. They were there because they have the 300. They could have been at home waiting to waiting for court. Instead, they were spending a you know, in this prison, in this lockup. Senator sanders didnt have bail. Didnt haveuse they bail . Ms. Bush they didnt have the bail. Senator sanders i want to stop note. T one i dont think people know this. I had to confess, i did not know years ago. A few we have about two Million People tonight. Rs and 20 of those people have not been convicted of anything. They are there because they ms. Tlaib 700,000. Senator sanders 700,000. Ms. Tlaib im helping you out, bernie. Senator sanders oh, all right. 700,000 are literally right now not been convicted of a crime or anything. Cant afford bail. During the pandemic, theyre still in there. In some states they havent let them out. Because they st didnt go before they cant afford it. E raise money jamaal, cori, you are going to get contacted by local groups. Me. Reached out to we raised 20,000 for mothers day to bail out mothers on day so they can be with their families. Its devastating. Before sanders cori, you were rudely interrupted by rashida youll get used to that. God, bernie , my helping. T thats all. Bush when we do that. So were stopping people, you know. Were Holding People that held and sometimes that causes an issue because into this t people cycle. Thing is 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. You know, 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 you all. Cop cop [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2020] national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] roselyn carter, barbara bush, Lara Laura Bush and michelle obama. Nobel and the late Pulitzer Prize winning author, morrison. Watch book tv all summer on cspan2. American history tv on cspan3, exploring the people and events that tell the american story, every weekend. Up this weekend, sunday marks the 75th anniversary of nagasaki, bombing of japan. 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