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 t