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, ou