Renewed this campaign contrast between prosecutor. This is a subplot that would be farfetched in most lyrical movies. One candidate, a law enforcement vet who locked up criminals. The other candidate, a convict in one state already, and also a defendant facing charges by the very doj that he would run if elected. Kamala harris invokes this on the campaign trail, and it was a theme at the dnc. I took on perpetrators of all kinds. So hear me when i say i know donald trump's type. For kamala, practicing law was always about protecting the vulnerable and giving the victims a voice. I can't wait to see her prosecute the case against donald trump on the debate stage. In the courtroom i stood proudly before a judge and i said five words. Kamala harris for the people. My entire career i have only had one client, the people. Harris's aides see that as an asset. Voters are turning back and want to know what you do as a prosecutor? what critics have questioned if there whole record is a good thing in itself. Which brings us to our special report, leading off the program right now. On what it means that harris was a prosecutor. What did she do, and how is it relevant? well, off the bat, it tells voters that she prioritized public service over private practice, and the more lucrative law firm jobs that many top law school graduates choose to take. Instead, after howard and uc hastings law school, she went into public service, into the lower paying d. A. S office. That is the standard employee job. It is unelected and largely unglamorous. But she made a name for herself prosecuting homicide and sexual assault cases. Her colleagues from that era have said she combined compassion for young victims with toughness in court. Now, any d. A. Office has dozens of attorneys that do the work. Very few rise up to then become the d. A. Themselves, to replace their boss. That state of california high 58 such offices. None were ever run by a black woman. So, to many, it was bold that kamala harris even set out to win one of the larger offices as a young lawyer. San francisco, as you know by now. She did win, she beat the incumbent. Superstar prosecutor kamala harris made history when she was elected california's first africanamerican female district attorney. To be a prosecutor is to really be engaged in one of the noblest professions that anyone could do. Harris was then sworn in by the first woman to serve as california's u. S. Senator, dianne feinstein. Neither knew then that harris would become the state's first black woman senator, or the first such presidential nominee. I, kamala harris, do solemnly swear. Congratulations! you can hear the excitement in that room. But harris was joining a conventional, even conservative arm of local government. I will tell you, traditionally prosecutors are the first line to push for arrests, plea deals, and heavier prison terms. It is thought that it is up to other people, the defense lawyers or the trial judges or the appeals judges to push back sometimes. And that is largely true, regardless of who is a prosecutor. On your screen we are showing you just a few of the top federal prosecutors in the country. They are all known for being tough. But these assumptions about what prosecutors should do are increasingly controversial. There is a new wave of prosecutors, especially in the last 10 or 15 years, who argue their role is not just to push the hardest and see what sticks. But to balance calls to be tough with judgment about what is fair, humane, and effective. Not just being punitive for its own sake. And that balance, by the way, is linked to racial justice, because when people talk about prosecutors just being as tough as possible in the abstract, what we actually see as those who face the toughest law enforcement are black, brown, or poor in america. We have reported on the facts on that for you for years. Harris navigated both camps in her work. She did not embrace a full progressive reform agenda in office. I will show you examples. She resisted efforts to provide independent prosecutors in police brutality cases. Or to overturn some alleged wrongful convictions. She also backed even harsher punishment in certain areas, like a new law in california to jail parents if students missed school. Accounts of her record emphasized that she was trying to be incremental, not crusading from the outside with easy talk, but trying to reform the system from within. Others, you may have heard, viewed her time in d. A. And ag, that record as very far from being a progressive prosecutor. Harris did, however, embrace many smart on crime reforms. And she was explicit about, as i mentioned, balancing being tough in some cases while also trying to root out police brutality and racialist rumination. And she explained that back then. Is a myth to say that africanamericans don't want law enforcement. We do. What we don't want is racial profiling. What we don't want is excessive force. But we do want law enforcement. So, let's define it in a way that works for us. That is the record. That was back then, not talking about national political office or politics. That is from back then. So there is nuance to this, which is why it is our special report right now. If you want to look at the evidence, the details, and the history, it is there. And there is a difference between being tough on murder crimes, and tough on drug use. Harris was an early leader on reforming new diversion programs to try to help deal with america's longrunning program about nonviolent drug users. And her office had good, low rates for reoffense. Harris advocated treating personal drug use is more of a public health issue than another chance to lock up people for years. And she explained that on a panel back in 2008 sta. That was a complete failure. It was a failure. And that is evidenced by the increased prison population in this country. We have to have a drug policy that says that we have got to treat that issue as a substance abuse issue, as a public health issue as much as anything. That is how she broke it down. Again, it is interesting to see it then. Some of those positions have gotten more support in the recent years, but that was back then. Then harris entered national politics, and she emphasized those reform efforts more than what i'm calling the tough on crime part of her record. And that is pretty standard, by the way. Politicians emphasizing the more popular thing in their history, rather than tougher debatable calls, some of which might not age well. But, as part of our report i want you to keep in mind something we kind of know. I bet you know it in the back of your head. The environment around what we think is good justice, fair justice has been shifting. After decades of both parties talking about being tough on crime, with democrats demanding more prison, more capital punishment, and a larger war on drugs, against that long running backdrop, the blm movement grew. Shifting politics emerged about prosecutors. With democrats even competing over reform. To that end, when harris was running in the last presidential primary season we actually spoke to her at a justice conference, which in a sign of an effort towards reform conversations was held in a former prison. And she, then, rebuked our u. S. President system as a failure. If we want healthy communities, if we want to be true to the values of redemption, we have to agree that the incarceration system of america is one of the greatest failures of public policy. In our country. The goal should be healthy communities. Because healthy communities are safe communities. That is what she was saying in that election cycle. And that emphasis put harris at home with most democrats, and really more balanced than most other politicians. Consider, as i mentioned, the top democrats backed very harsh policies in clinton's 94 crime bill. That includes three strikes, your out, and those harsh drug penalties. Those are some of the very crackdowns the party is now pushing to rollback, and yet, the people who supported that, as you see on your screen, included not only president clinton, but one of the parties top figures on the judiciary committee at the time, joe biden. So, for legal liberals, concerns about harris's d. A. Record, as a factual matter, are smaller than the politician she just replaced. It wouldn't make much sense to be mad at her for incremental reform, for not fullblown progressive form of harsh laws, with the literal recent alternative was, according to those critiques, worse. Politicians who were all in on the crime bill, like biden and clinton. I am just telling you the history. Now, politically, you have election analysts say harris has a strength here. She can now run on being a prosecutor, and as, the cop, which, quote, doesn't sound so bad in 2024. Everything i just told you is about her service as d. A. Substantively, that is part of why she has so much experience. Politically, it may help her draw on both the tough and reformer experience. Factually, again, both parties have tapped prosecutors as promising leaders and candidates for many decades. We can show you other prosecutors turned them accredit candidates, like senator blumenthal. Nothing unusual about the same playbook for harris. And there are a few signs that party liberals, even if they would want more reform, that the parties liberals are going to suddenly hold kamala harris to a higher standard than all those other prosecutors who have run as democrats. Now, that is the d. A. History. There is more. In 2011, harris went on to be the top lawenforcement official in california. She won the ag race, and oversaw these policies targeting criminal organization. Her tenure side drop in violent crime, but her new role also gave her experience farther from just individual trials in local crime. It added a whole bunch of other topics and challenges. And she embraced some of them, using that post to back equal rights for couples to adopt, and famously urging state courts to issue those samesex marriage license. You must start the marriages immediately. As i mentioned at the top of this report, people often lump all of harris's legal work together. But it is a little more, located, or at least there were phases. She served for over a decade after prosecuting lawyer inside the d. A. S office, as you see on your screen. Then she rose to be d. A. Herself. Then she was attorney general of all of california. Now, that, we should mention, is more governing experience than many national candidates have had when they approached the white house. It is more time in government than carter or obama had when they first ran for president, or them, say, jd vance right now. If we are talking about experience or what type of candidate you're looking at, and who is on a fast track. The ag portfolio was also wider than i mentioned in the office. That is why kamala harris took on that national wall battling banks over the mortgage crisis. It is why she clashed with billionaire banker jamie diamonds. She recounted in her book how he was yelling about his shareholders, and she yelled back, basically, quote, i give it right back. Your shareholders, my shareholders are the homeowners of california. You come and see them. You talk to them about who got robbed, she told him. She played hardball, and may or may not have won. When you are in the middle of a legal case, you've got a lot of lawyers, a lot of negotiation, you don't know who's going to back down. On that one, as you see on your screen, the banks backs down big time. She won $18 billion in settlements for people who were harmed by all that wall street malfeasance. Is the kind of victory that matters for people, it even if it is far afield from some of the debates and attacks you might've heard on her record as a prosecutor. It also quiets certain debates about whether tough enough on the banks, smart on crime, or all these other things. When it works, it works. And she emphasized that at the time. As a result of 13 months of intense discussions, sometimes battle, we have delivered to california $18 billion in relief for california's homeowners. That is with a history shows. Kamala harris was a public d then she was the d. A. , herself. And then she was the attorney general. And across that time, while a lot of other people were talking about this stuff, or doing politics about this stuff, or critiquing others about this stuff, she was actually doing this stuff. If you look at the whole record, as i showed you, some of it might not have aged as well. Some of it was certainly tough on crime, even though that might, for some people in the general election, be a good political thing. That is up to you as the voter. She was doing at the whole time. So now, as we gear up for the general election that officially kicks off next week, it seems her role across all of those phases of her public service career is something that she and her allies think she can stand on. Now, we are going to get a special perspective from a democrat who also went from prosecutor to politics, breaking barriers as a former prosecutor who became mayor of chicago. 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But really delivers for the people who are victims, whether it is violent crime, whether it is fraud and abuse by corporations, banks, i think she has a very strong record, not only of performing, but delivering on behalf of the people when she was a d. A. And obviously when she was the attorney general for the most populous state in our country. We went to the facts. As you know, politics may or may not relate to facts. But, how important do you think it is for her campaign to tell those stories? in other words, i am trying to inform viewers and voters, so they can make up their own mind. But the clash with the banks, the many things she has done. The fact that she was in that office doing public service. The obama campaign made a lot of his choice to pursue public service rather than money coming out of harvard. I am not sure that they have hit that point is hard, although it always tells you something, if someone did not just chase a check when they were 25. Yes, well, i think there are a couple of different currents that the campaign needs to maintain. Kamala harris is still introducing herself to the country. And having the campaign really focus on her background, her story with her single mama raised her and her sister, but also talking about her time in public service, because, as she said, she only had one client and her client is the people. But understanding that an defining result, because obviously her opponents on the republican side are going to try to target her with a soft on crime, too liberal, san francisco, all of that. But i think her record tells a very different story. Particularly that $18 billion that she delivered for the residents and homeowners of california when many were willing to settle for much less. She was the person who led the attorney general's at this difficult time to really hold out for more and demand more from the banks and a part of the story line is, frankly did a better job than what we saw at the federal level, where the demands of the big banks was much, much more letting them get away with a lot of the harm that was done to the people during that time. Yeah, the drug war in these crackdowns are also proving to be negative for the safety of many communities, because they have cut off so many people, even after serving their time from reentering society. And unless someone has a life sentence, we all have to deal with them when they come back, every lawyer knows that, a lot of communities know that. When i got interview, as i mentioned, at that for prison at the justice panel, she really spoke quite movingly about how you should remove the efforts to further punish people after they get out, if we want them to get jobs and get educated. Take a look. We got to end the federal bans on federal support going to folks from everything for snap, to college loans, and student loans, to housing, all of these bands make the education we can offer meaningless, if when people come out they don't have access to the resources that help everybody else. Look, fundamentally this is going to be about safe communities. And i think with the perspective of time and distance from the height of the crack epidemic, when i was a federal prosecutor, what you know is that public safety is about creating an ecosystem and an environment where the public is protected. And there's lots of different levers you can pull. Certainly the power of locking up violent, dangerous, habitual criminals. But the fact of the matter is people are coming home. And how they spend their time during incarceration, to get them ready or not for coming home, what happens to them upon reentry, and what communities do to help support them so that they don't become a recidivism statistic. All of that is important, and as a prosecutor, particularly a local prosecutor, you can't ignore the realities on the ground in a community that you say and you are sworn to serve. When we go back, is this the year of the woman? we have special guest, jen saki and sophia bush fresh off the dnc. Dnc. (♪♪) i wish i had someone like evan when i started. Somebody just got their first debit card! ice cream on you? ooo, tacos! i got you. Wait hold on, don't you owe me money? what?! your money is a part of your community, so your bank should be too. Like, chase! ellen pompeo i've never really been offered a beauty campaign when i was in my twenties or my thirties or my forties. It wasn't until i was 48 years old, when i thought that was way behind me. 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Sophia bush was one of the many artists and cultural creators we saw highlighted at the convention. A tv and film veteran, one tree hill, chicago pd, john tucker must die. And then politics. She was there, and if you follow her on socials you get all kind of fun. Backstage, what they call it, bts content? there she is with the first woman speaker of the house, a bunch of other cool pictures. And, jen psaki is, of course, our colleague, but also served as a white house press secretary for president biden. Welcome to you both. Jen, hometown advantage, i will go to you first. What does it mean, not only to have a woman nominee, there are women in the republican party. But to have women's rights of the senate right now. Well, first of all, i love being on with you. I love sophia. We are having a love fest. I wish i was there with you guys. I will say, what it means, kamala harris, women see themselves. Young women of color see themselves. Young men of color see themselves. People also see themselves in somebody who is bold and fearless. And that is powerful, we saw that at the convention. At the big contrast. We talked about this a lot onset, that so many people saw themselves of that convention. Which is so different from a couple of weeks before. So that was a really powerful thing. On abortion rights, as you are playing the clips, one of the things i thought was so interesting is abortionrights used to be also mentioned. People who were speaking at conventions or events would say and i have to talk about abortions right and say i believe in a woman's right to choose. Now it has become a front and center issue. It was a dominant issue at the convention. You had powerful stories from people like haley devol and others that people were crying watching, tearjerking moments. But also, you had people like governor pritzker talked about abortion rights more comfortably than most people i know. He is a billionaire governor of illinois was obviously a man. This has changed as an issue that is front and center, the people have a comfort in talking about. And that is a big shift. Obviously because of the supreme court decision, but that is a big shift and we saw it at the convention. Her to feel to you? conventions are a time for nerds. You may self identify as a nerd. You have a lot of people who look to you and look to those people in culture who are not political nerds, and who seemed to be turning in right now. One of the things i think is the privilege of my life, listen, i love my job as a storyteller. But that is my individual passion. My calling as a citizen of this country is to work on behalf of community. And i have realized what a gift it is to have a platform and to be a policy nerd. Because i am able to help translate why these policies are so personal. Just as jen was mentioning, i think people thought of abortion, reproductive rights on the whole as this sort of bottom shelf, ground bag issue, like we will talk about it in certain circles and not others. But people who have been fed this stream of lies about what we productive healthcare looks like i've had to look into the faces of american families, look at women who have lost their fallopian tubes, who have gone into sepsis. We have heard stories of women who have died or nearly died because they had not been given emergency medical care. And we know that there is no logic to this. You cannot say you are a pro family party and then worked to ban ivf. None of this makes any sense. It is about money, control, and power. And if you can't win on policy, you should not try to win on killing half of the american population. And that goes, again, are we listening to women? i worked in civil rights, and one of the challenges with racial issues is you can go to community's, that even if people are not consciously, actively racist, they are not interacting with members of the other communities. So they really are closed off. With gender, there are women in every community, right? and everybody has a mom, yada yada. And yet, the women's power invoice has been so truncated. So we did pull one piece of sound, a classic jen psaki. That is the thing around here. You're getting a sake bomb ? definitely a shot. If it is a full bomb, only you can tell us. But in all seriousness, you use that podium, and of course you are representing the whole of ministration and speaking to the whole country. But at times you spoke as a woman. On these issues. Let's take a listen. Who does he believe should look out for the unborn child? he believes that it is up to a woman to make those decisions, and up to a woman to make those decisions with her doctor. I know you have never faceless choices, nor have you ever been pregnant. But for women out there who have faced those choices, this is an acutely difficult thing. Look, my sister has a t shirt she sometimes wears to the playground that says everyone knows somebody who has had an abortion, that may or may not be true. But most people do. Or someone who has struggled with fertility, or someone who had a pregnancy that did not go to term, where they had to make a difficult choice. This is an issue, as you said, it impacts not only women across the country and women of childbearing age, whatever you want to call that, but also their grandmothers. Also, they think about their daughters, husbands think about their wives, boyfriends think about their girlfriends, and this is the part of it that i think was a little bit missing from the political conversation. This is not just a women's issue, it is a societal issue about taking away women's rights to make choices about their own bodies. And even people, this is so interesting in polls, who would consider themselves not necessarily in favor of abortion rights, don't want that to be taken away from others. And that tells you a lot about where this is right now. But yes, you have to speak to things as a human and as a woman, or a man, or whatever you may be. Because i think that is what connects with people, too. Was that a sake bomb? i don't know, i am not the arbiter of that. He does have moments, i try to be calm, but i'm an irish lass. I have moments where you just have to say the thing. I will ask you. Was it a sake bomb? i think so. 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Announcer: let's cure childhood cancer together. If kamala if kamala harris wants to reproduce the winning obama coalition, she needs several things. One of them is turning young voters energy into action. If young voters have been engaging with the dnc in person, online, but they tend to vote at lower rates than all older demographics. We have seen since kamala harris entered the race real enthusiasm. And the memes just keep coming. I hope she place freedom. This is a kamala harris rally. See how i don't try to control other people's bodies? very demure, very mindful, very considerate. Women are making their own health care decisions. Who is going to tell him that the job might be one of those black jobs. You might not use tiktok, but a lot of other people do. So what happens in these rallies and conventions are virally shared millions of times over. The key will be turnout. Obama's first campaign translated energy to huge numbers on election day. Take a look. Voters under 30, obama shellacked mccain by i whopping 34 points. It made the difference in some key states. Then obama's margin as president of romney was big, but not as big as the first round. He did a 23 point victory. Enough to win again. But notice how democrats, who are often seen as more in line with the younger immigration, kept trending downhill. So 18% is a fine margin for hillary clinton, but rather, it was too tight in many states. Had she had the obama margin with young voters she might have won back michigan or wisconsin. And biden in 2020 went back up from that. 25 points. You see the theme here. Winning democratic national candidates tend to do in the 20s, 30s, and above. Not lower than that. As part of the coalition. But, biden this cycle was not doing as well. I am sure you heard about it, he was only up about six points in that same young voting demographic compared to trump. So, you take together and you can see this is one area, like some of the other areas were biden had a challenge, that had veterans of democratic campaigns nervous. If you are breaking even on young voters as a democrat with trump, you are probably not on the road to winning the election. Now, harris has only been in for a month, and her numbers are similar among young voters. It is a couple points higher, but her aides say what you see online, and it takes time to get everyone informed, is going in the right direction. There is been palpable energy around her campaign. There is been the music and cultural dominance that we have reported from the convention. And then there is the cash. 82 million more dollars in fundraising just last week, and a lot of young people using their platforms online and otherwise to say hey, this is a new ticket, it is not just biden, it is not just two elderly candidates, and telling people to get involved. 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They made videos and they spoke from the main stage to their followings. People my age are making big decisions about our lives, and we deserve a president who has our back. I am so honored to be here today at the dnc. This is the campaign of love and the campaign of joy. Vote for hope, not hate. As the saying goes, if you are not at the table, you're on the menu. So, gen z, let's take our seat in our democracy, and cast our ballots this november for kamala harris and tim walz. It was a different approach, and while there is all the happiness and unity on the main stage, i both covered and worked in politics long enough to tell you that there are members of congress jockeying who say why did that person get to go and not this person, who already won races? it is a sign that there is a focus by harris's team on the races yet to be one. Npr reports that they also want to take all of this internet buzz, which we have clearly seen, and make sure it translates into registration and actual votes this fall. So, we are not just going to talk about what is changing or what is going on with the youth vote here on the beat. We are going to set aside some time to listen. And we have three influencers who are actually at that very dnc. Daisy fox, who has been with us before. A democrat who worked for harris as a influencer. Olivia giuliana, political activist. And parker short, returning here. President of the georgia young democrats, who also was seen dancing his way into the hearts of many to kendrick lamar at that harris atlanta rally. That was just a month ago or so. Feels like it could be even longer. There it was. Welcome back to all of you. Thanks for having us. Great to have you here, absolutely. You are not new to this. But you are younger then, i would say not only the typical mainstage speaker, but just about all of them. What does it mean that harris is doing this, and how did it feel for you as a person? oh, man, for me it was a dream realized. I am nearly a decade in this reproductive rights were, despite being only 24. I worked for kamala harris when i was just 19 as one of the youngest staffers in history. I was fulltime on her digital staff on that first presidential run. And so, getting ready to see not only my candidate of choice up there on stage accepting that nomination, but also influencers playing a key role. Part of my past position and the strategy i really got to see come to life was full circle in so many ways for me. Yeah, and olivia, we have some more sound of this. Let's take a look at both of you. I was a free lunch kid, raised in public housing, and i got my healthcare at planned parenthood. The fact is, our right to vote is under attack. Donald trump's republicans are making it harder for us to vote. Same question to you, what does it mean and how did it feel? it means so much to me, not only because i think it really highlights that the harris campaign in the dnc is taking youth voices very seriously, but for me, being from texas, the fact that i get to say i spoke on the same stage as women like barbara jordan, and richards, and my late mentor, congresswoman sheila jackson, means so much to me. And i am so excited for not only what this means this year for youth engagement, but what this means is a party looking forward and engaging with young people. Yeah. Parker, one reason young people tendered to vote less, that they are very busy to getting their lives in order. And we have seen that tendency in many countries. The other reason could be that the parties don't often really target, engage, or listen to them. How do you think the harris campaign is doing on that front? well, as a youth organizer, as someone who has been involved in democratic politics in georgia since i was 14, i know from personal experience that democrats are trying to reach out for young people. And you know what? i know both of our other guests at the convention, we had more than 1000 young delegates. That is not an easy position to get. You have to show up to those county party meetings, you have to get elected, you have to care, and you have to get involved. The with 1000 delegates from all over the country representing the next generation, i had so many folks come up to me from the tennessee young democrats, the texas young democrats, the alaska young democrats. It was so inspiring to see these organizing groups all over the country. Influencing and making a tiktok video is one thing, but going out, organizing your community, registering vote to vote is one thing. I know this campaign is more dedicated and focus to reaching out and supporting and hearing young people the just about any other national campaign of ever seen. Well, on a lighter note, did you see how much coffee parker drinks? did you get any rate on that? because every time we've seen him, in the tiktok, or when nobody was looking, he didn't know anyone was looking, he seems caffeinated. Listen, we all had to be caffeinated to be out there. As content creators, most of us have fulltime jobs outside of this. Things we are experts in, work we are doing. And we are also a oneperson show, editing, filming, styling our content. So, caffeine is wellearned. Olivia, how do you feel about the way this has evolved? because in the obama era, that was back long enough, and i'm going to date myself, that was back long enough ago when people talk about e politics, e campaigning, like email. We don't do that with phones. Anyone who is been around campaigns knows phone banks are a thing. But we don't talk about phone politics. There is something about recent or new technology that people get kind of really stuck in the mud about. And a decade or two later we are like right, that is just life. And obviously, if i may, some of your generation is growing up with these tools. So they are part of life. Not everyone who is young is always making their own videos, people do with their own way. You have obviously grown up in this. So what can you teach us, and our viewers, some of whom may not be on tiktok every day, about what is changing? well, i will date myself, i was in kindergarten when barack obama won his first presidential election. But the e politics aspect of this, i think it was very clear talking to young people there at the convention. I had a young man, to me, he said i started watching your tiktok's four years ago when i started posting. I was 14, now i am the youngest delegate from new mexico. He had just turned 18. That is the tangible impact that this social media politics atmosphere has had. It is actually mobilizing young people on the ground to get involved in their communities. And i think like parker said, that is a real thing that we saw with not just the delegates, but you have young people who were on the platform committee, who were on the rules committee, the credentials, they are very much getting involved in the democratic process. And it is extremely exciting and a worthwhile investment. Parker, go ahead. Well, you know, i couldn't agree more. Out of the 10 people who were on our committees from the state of georgia, five of them were young democrats and they are five of my best friends. So i was really glad to see my representation. And i will be frank, i became an influencer out of nowhere a month ago. I am not the biggest fan of tiktok. I called my senators when the bill came up. I genuinely did not want to go on social media and make these videos. But i have a public policy degree from the university of michigan. I have been working in georgia politics for long enough to know what is at stake. So in my silly, caffeinated self can go in front of the camera and use my public policy degree and use my experience to tell people about what gerrymandering is or why ballot initiatives matter, or why it is so hard to vote in georgia and you can't register within 30 days of the election, and the massive voter suppression we have going on from lines of the poles to voter registration to absentee ballots, i am happy to do that. I almost feel like i have a responsibility to help other people in this generation, and key people involved in the fight i've been in for so long, and these folks i've been in for so long. That is so real. Can i add something to that? to say that i, too, went viral unexpectedly when i was 16 for an interaction, bird dogging, if you are an organizer, you know what that means, my senator around his efforts to defund planned parenthood. That was my first ever viral video that launch my career as a content creator. So i also want to flag something as we look to the future, which is that the nature of what it means to be a public figure, to be a political figure is changing. And at the root of it is an aspect of content creation and personal brand building, and monitoring and creating a persona online. So i hope that as we look forward to what content creators contribute, to these spaces, we don't flatten us, we don't flatten the professional of the role. But we really look at how extensive it is and what an asset it will be to political figures going forward. And really what an essential skill it has become. Thanks for watching the beat weekend. Be sure to join us weekdays at 6:00 p. M. 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