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For our children. and of course if people get child care and they get paid leave, imagine how different life would look for anyone across the united states of america. that is populist policy. it is popular policy, whether you re in montana or whether you re in washington state or whether you re in georgia. so i think that is really the need is so great, and he is absolutely right when he says, we can absolutely and we need to spend this money so we can give americans a way to feel different about their lives when they wake up every morning. congresswoman pramila jayapal, thank you very much for starting us off tonight. we really needed your perspective on this. really appreciate it. thank you, lawrence. thank you. and joining our suggestion now, john heilemann, executive editor of the recount, where he hosts the hell and high water podcast. also with us, zerlina maxwell, ....
Entering that vast lobby where you were harming no one? thank you, lawrence, for having me on. i think it s quite simple. what we see is the disparity of treatment. we see the disparities when it comes to black americans and majority americans. we were there protesting, but the rules of engagement change or the responses to the rules of engagement are different. we were warned that there was a warning and that after three warnings, we would be subject to being arrested. well, as you saw, we were in our movement, in our moment. we felt like john lewis and martin luther king when they organized and protested, it made a difference. and that s why we were there. but it is a difference. we saw and witnessed i was there on january the 6th and we know what happened then and what didn t happen. another reason we need to pass the john lewis voting rights ....
Budget committee. you re in the thick of this. this budget resolution that bernie sanders is working on in the senate at $3.5 trillion is going to come your way in the house budget committee. if this works, you re going to have to pass something virtually identical. what is your reaction to chairman sanders product so far, the $3.5 trillion democrats only bill? well, lawrence, i think that it is a huge down payment on much of what we have been talking about in terms of the great crises facing americans today and the lack of opportunity that people have. there are so many things in this bill from health care, expanding medicare, which we have been pushing for for a long time, expanding medicaid, making sure that we are addressing the ability for people to go to college, community college for two years. that s a big piece. and then of course the care economy that gets women back ....