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	The Jimmy Dore Show!
	It's the Jimmy Dore Show.
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	It's the show that makes Anderson Cooper say...
	It's hard to talk when you keep asking.
	And now, here's a guy who sounds a lot like me.
	It's Jimmy Dore!
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	Hey, everybody, welcome to this week's Jimmy Door show.
	How are you?
	Hey, thanks to everybody who made it out to Chicago to the live show in Chicago.
	That was amazing.
	That was so much fun.
	We're going to do it again real soon.
	So people were excited.
	People were excited.
	So thanks to everybody who made it out to that show.
	And it was great.
	I was at the People Summit in Chicago.
	That was fantastic.
	We're going to talk to Jordan Sheridan coming up later in the show about the People's Summit and what we thought about it.
	I don't know what you thought about it, but I know what I thought about it.
	I'm going to let you know coming up.
	Also, Nina Turner, we bumped into her at the People's Summit.
	So it was so worth going just for that.
	We got to meet Nina Turner, and we talked to her for about 20 minutes.
	And I'm going to include that.
	She's my hero.
	I love her.
	She's such an inspiring speaker.
	She's a great progressive.
	Nina Turner's on the Jimmy Door show.
	That's today.
	That is happening.
	I'm excited.
	Plus, we talk about the poison water in North Carolina.
	That's actually coming from DuPont.
	And nobody in the government is going to do anything about it.
	And there's no national media covering it right now, anyway, except for Jordan Sheridan and the Young Turks.
	So we're going to talk about that.
	Plus, we got phone calls from Mitt Romney and Barack Obama.
	Plus, we have a compilation.
	A lot of people, a lot of people called in and left me voice messages, very short ones.
	We're going to play some of that for you.
	Hopefully, we can get that to you.
	But that's coming up, plus a lot, lot more.
	That's today of the Jimmy Dore Show.
	No.
	Oh, oh, oh, oh.
	Guess who this is?
	President Obama, former President Obama.
	I've cashed out, Chi Chi, but I still have the occasional opinion on important issues.
	Okay, what do you think about the shooting of Republican House Whip Steve Scalise?
	It's all about the Corbinization of America, Jimmy.
	I warned everybody about this last December.
	But Britain has strict gun laws.
	This kind of stuff rarely happens there.
	America can work out its own problems, Jimmy.
	We don't need some foreign version of Bernie Sanders telling us the system is rigged and we have to change everything.
	Well, all we really need to do is have a beer at the White House.
	We must resist Corbinization in every way, shape, or form, including Corbinated beverages.
	But you're not on board with people like Joy Reed smearing Sanders and linking him to the shooting, are you?
	Jimmy, there comes a time when every journalist is forced to choose between supporting the truth and supporting their rage.
	And today, Joey Reed chose the latter.
	I'm not saying it's ethical.
	I'm just saying everything is justified if it saves the Democratic Party.
	Some Republicans immediately link this shooting to Islam.
	So why can't Democrats link it to Bernie Sanders, right?
	Well, it's kind of hard to keep track of all the shit since no way.
	Why?
	Because I just bought a new house in the swankiest part of D.C. Say hello to the proud new owner of an $8 million tutor estate most of the people I grew up with would never be allowed near.
	$8 million?
	$8.1 million.
	In your old face, Bernie Sanders.
	That fat cat with his three moderately priced houses after a lifetime of public service has a thing or two to learn about influence peddling.
	But $8 million?
	Got a cheat from Bill Clinton's press secretary, Joe Lockhart.
	Remember him?
	The president, blah, blah, blur is important, blah, blah.
	Gut habeas corpus, blah, blah.
	He's now head publicity agent for the NFL.
	So fill in your own joke about brain damage there.
	Hillary Clinton just blamed the DNC for her election loss.
	How do you feel about that?
	Look, I'm a former president.
	It's not my place to comment on Secretary Clinton's colossal and totally preventable loss to a serial liar and confessed sexual harasser who regularly polled in the double digits behind Bernie Sanders, who could have won.
	Because that might help Bernie burnify the rest of the world.
	And we must resist burnification.
	Imagine if Bernie Sanders was able to sprinkle his fairy dust in Russia like he did in Britain.
	Unthinkable.
	Mr. Dorrow, we must not allow an idiocy gap.
	It's time to rethink our relationship with the British.
	They're infecting us with their reason.
	Okay, but you have to admit you had a point about the Democratic Party lacking in organization.
	I mean, you were the head of the party.
	Wasn't that ultimately your responsibility?
	Well, sure.
	I could have energized the base like I did in 2008, but I chose not to.
	Why?
	For the same reason I didn't rally the party in 2010 to keep the house.
	I didn't want to piss off the Republicans.
	How was I supposed to work with Republicans if I helped them lose?
	They would have hated me.
	I want to be their friend.
	Understand?
	But I put my foot down when Trump said make America great again.
	Hillary Clinton and I said it's already great.
	I mean, I came to have Golden Sachs and an ambassadorship.
	That's not great.
	Trump's crazy, man.
	You're talking about Ambassador Murphy who just won the New Jersey Democratic primary to replace Chris Christie.
	That's how you spell resistance, Jimmy.
	Goldman Sachs.
	Hey, Chi-Chi, I got to go help the movies unpacked.
	Lot of hard choices coming up.
	Like who gets what bathroom?
	Right now, it's eight bathrooms and nine bedrooms to split up between four people.
	Think of it as House of Cards to chase it.
	But without that totally ridiculous scene where Kevin Spacey does Cona Lingis like he's snively whiplash coming down on Betsy Ross.
	Bye.
	Hey, where's that panic room again?
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	you you So I was at the People's Summit at Chicago, and Jordan Cheriton was at the People's Summit in Chicago.
	And it seemed like a big progressive get-together.
	Some people made some noise that Tulsi Gabbard wasn't invited and Jill Steinwood wasn't invited.
	I almost wasn't invited.
	I got invited somehow.
	But what did you, overall, you know, I only spent part of Friday there and part of Sunday there.
	I had my own show to do Saturday, which you were on.
	By the way, Jordan got a standing ovation when he was introduced, which is fantastic.
	And so what was your assessment of the People's Summit?
	Yeah, I mean, I actually, I thought it was very well done.
	You know, there's a growing chorus on the progressive side that seems to never be happy with anything.
	And they thought it was too establishment.
	I mean, honestly, I was very busy, so I might have not been able to see every single group that was there and looked into their funding.
	However, I mean, I saw a lot of groups that are for what I'm for and what you're for.
	Single payer, free public college tuition, ending the wars, living socialist policies.
	Right.
	So, you know, at a giant conference, is everything going to be perfect?
	Great.
	No, but let me tell you something.
	Without conferences like that, dozens of progressive candidates that I interviewed are probably not going to get a platform.
	They're not going to get it from the corporate media.
	And without conferences like that, you don't have the opportunity to regalvanize and re-energize the troops like Bernie Sanders did in one place.
	And I just don't think that there's some dark, sinister, neoliberal cabal going on at the People Summit, that it's all just a sham for like secret super PACs, which is what I've heard from others.
	Yeah, a lot of people were saying that on Twitter.
	I saw that, and I was like, well, you know what?
	Good point.
	I thought this was being run by the nurses.
	I didn't look into who was financing it.
	But all I know is that, you know, it would be not in their interest to finance this summit because it was great for me to meet all the other progressive candidates that I hadn't been able to meet.
	I met the woman who was running for the chair in the California Democratic Party.
	She knew who the young Turks were and who this show was.
	And we got to interview Nina Turner.
	So I don't know.
	Danita Turner get duped.
	Did somebody give her talking points to say when she spoke?
	No.
	They had guys, you know who was there?
	The guy who wrote this book.
	Thomas Frank was there.
	Now, this book is what made me a radical.
	And if you read this book, it will make you a radical.
	Listen liberal by Thomas Frank.
	He was there and he was telling the truth about the Democratic Party.
	Bernie Sanders was there and he was telling the truth about the Democratic Party.
	Roseanne DeMaro was there and she was telling the truth about the Democratic Party.
	So was Nina Turner.
	So was Crystal Ball.
	There's lots of people there who were to the left of the Democratic Party's mainstream and they were telling the truth about it.
	And guess what we were doing?
	We were meeting up with each other.
	So that was also very good.
	Although I did not get to see Thomas Frank when he was there.
	I missed him.
	There were so many people there that I got to see so many that I missed so many.
	So yeah, I don't think it was a real, I don't think this was some kind of CIA plot to infiltrate the progressive movement and to upset it and turn up.
	I think it was a good thing.
	It was great to see you there.
	It was great to meet the guy running.
	Oh, I got to meet in person Jaffe, who's running against Nancy Pelosi and so many other candidates who are primarying corporate Democrats and the like.
	So to me, I just thought it was, I saw a positive after positive after positive.
	They allowed Draft Bernie people to be there and to be there very loudly.
	We were chanting in the foyer for a while.
	I mean, so it wasn't, I didn't, no one tried to shut us up.
	No one tried to shut us out.
	And we were allowed to say whatever we wanted to say and meet other progressives.
	So I felt like it was a success.
	Yeah, is there problems with things?
	Yes.
	I'd like to have seen Tulsi Gabbard and Jill Stein there.
	You bet.
	And I wasn't even aware that they weren't invited until I got there.
	So maybe they were in there.
	I don't know what happened.
	Who knows what happened?
	Do you know what happened with them?
	No, I don't.
	But Tulsi Gabbard spoke the year before.
	So I would have a hard time believing that in a year's time, she wasn't invited.
	Secondly, the National Nurses United pays for the conference.
	So unless you think the nurses are working with Trump, I think you need to relax on the funding sources.
	And thirdly, not just with the People Summit, but I see it a lot with people criticizing my reporting.
	These are not people who actually leave their homes.
	A lot of the people that were criticizing weren't even there.
	So I'm not trying to be arrogant, but it's like if you're not personally somewhere to see for yourself, how are you writing columns and tweets and all this stuff, ranting, when you can't even see the dynamic?
	I think everybody needs to focus on the real enemies, which are the EPA, neoliberalism, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton.
	I mean, I don't mean enemies like take them out.
	Right, but enemies of progress, enemies of progress.
	Right.
	And by the way, Jimmy, I just want to add, I feel, you know, we wish the congressman that got shot a speedy recovery.
	However, enough with that, enough with, oh, the dialogue is why this is happening.
	No, it's not the dialogue.
	It's the fucking guns.
	It's very simple.
	It's the guns.
	It's not the discourse or the dialogue causing maniacs to do this.
	They're maniacs and they have access to lethal weapons that could kill a lot of people.
	The guy had a history of domestic violence.
	So, I mean, that should be an automatic.
	You don't get a gun.
	You have a history of domestic violence.
	You automatically don't get a gun.
	We don't do that in America.
	They gave him a gun.
	And now, again, we're talking about every other thing except what we're supposed to be talking about, which is the easy access of firearms by anybody, including the mentally ill, including terrorists in the United States.
	So that talk about a banana republic.
	You talk about a government that's completely corrupted by corporate interests.
	That's why we don't.
	So again, how they proved in the study that we live in an oligarchy, that's proof because 90% of people want background checks.
	We don't get them.
	We're never getting gun legislation with the system as it currently is.
	So that's a great point that you made.
	Yeah, a lot of people, I noticed that too.
	A lot of people, the loudest people criticizing the summit weren't there.
	And by the way, it's not my summit.
	I don't have any.
	Just again, I don't, you know, when people came at me like when I was, I had Rokana on my show, people were coming at me like as if I'm the defender of Rokana.
	I'm a defender of positions.
	I'm a defender of policies.
	And if anybody is for those policies, I'm for those people.
	If tomorrow Newt Gingrich came out and said he was for single payer and free college and ending the wars and a livable wage, I would be for him, even though, but we know he's never going to do that.
	So I'm for positions.
	And if people want to come to those policy positions, then I'm for those positions and those people who are for them.
	But if you're not for those positions, I'm not for those people.
	And it seemed like the People Summit was for those positions.
	Everyone there I met was for those positions.
	I didn't meet anybody there who was against those positions.
	And every booth I went to was somebody more progressive saying even something more progressive.
	So there wasn't like the DNC.
	I didn't see a DNC booth.
	Did you see a DNC booth there?
	No.
	No.
	I just saw I just saw the New York Times underground writing nasty pieces and spreading chemicals above ground.
	Yes, okay.
	Yeah, yes, it's fantastic.
	Well, listen, so I, again, I think we need more of these things where progressives get together because as Chomsky taught us, what the establishment media does is reinforce, they're there to further the Plutocrats agenda.
	And they're not there for you, but the Washington Post is owned by a guy who's worth $80 billion.
	Don't for a second think that paper is there looking out for the working man.
	Because if they were, they'd be writing story after story about the horrible working conditions at Amazon.
	All right.
	But they're not.
	All right.
	Just so let's remember we need more places like that and less places like the DNC convention where I was wearing my lanyard was sponsored by Comcast And was held at the Wells Fargo Center.
	So these are the things we need to get away from.
	I'm okay with what happened at the People Summit because I think that the content of the People Summit was fantastic.
	I agree.
	And one more bow and arrow for you against that Washington Post owner.
	I've recently learned in writing my book, he lobbied $100,000 to stop a wealth tax in Washington state.
	And he's also a libertarian, from what my research gathers.
	So you got a libertarian, wealth tax-dodging guy who owns the paper that claims democracy dies in the darkness.
	Might have something to do with the 16-negative Bernie stories, Russia taking down Vermont's power grid, and all this bullshit from the Washington Post.
	Yes, it might be.
	So don't ever make the mistake that the establishment press is on the side of the people or progressives or change because they're not.
	They are the status quo.
	Jeff Bezos is the status quo.
	The New York Times is the status quo, and they always are always pro-war.
	And they just blame the shooting on Bernie Sanders and progressives.
	So again, we're to the point now, I think, where the establishment media has gotten so bad that when they do attack progressives, it just strengthens them like we just saw happen with Jeremy Corbyn, correct?
	Correct.
	And I also think we're at the point, Jimmy.
	I don't know.
	Come 2020, I don't know if I'm going to be allowed on that bus again.
	I made it.
	I made it in 2016, but I'm not making friends, which I'm happy about.
	I don't need to be on the bus.
	No, no, good for you, Jordan.
	Good for you.
	Don't make, again, we know what the establishment media is.
	Even if they don't want to be, that's what they are.
	They're there to defend the establishment.
	They are guard dogs of the establishment.
	And that no matter who you are, no matter where you are working in the establishment media, you will not be allowed to do or say anything that undermines their bottom line.
	And as soon as Rachel Maddow does a story that undercuts Comcast profit, she'll be fired just like they fired Phil Donahue, just like they fired Ed Schultz.
	Now Ed Schultz is on RT.
	If you listen to the Washington Post, now Ed Schultz is doing propaganda because he's on RT.
	All of a sudden, he was okay at MSNBC.
	He told the truth about the TPP, and now the Post smears him as a propaganda propagandist for Russia.
	That's fucking happening right now in America.
	They're smearing a guy telling the truth, Ed Schultz.
	It's amazing what's happening.
	And that's why we need more people like you, Jordan.
	Thanks for doing a great job.
	Everybody, check the link below for Jordan's new book.
	What's the name of the book?
	Corporate Conjob: How Mainstream Media Aids the Oligarchy.
	All right.
	Thanks very much, Jordan, and we look forward to having you back.
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	Hey, everybody, welcome to the Jimmy Door Show.
	I'm here with the miserable liberal and Ron Placone.
	I'm miserable.
	I'm happy.
	So, what happened in North Carolina?
	We just got word.
	We just did an interview with Jordan Cheriton, who's on the scene in North Carolina.
	DuPont Chemical is polluting the water with a thing called the Gen X chemical, right?
	Literally, that's what it's called.
	Weird, right?
	And what you need to know is that it causes cancer, and it's in the drinking water, and the EPA won't do anything about it.
	The state government won't do anything about it, and the mayor won't do anything about it.
	When I say won't do anything about it, they say they can't do anything about it.
	Really?
	So that's what's happening.
	People's water is polluted with a thing called a Gen X chemical, which is just a chemical that they put in when they're making Teflon and vinyl.
	It's a chemical they put in the river.
	So they put it in the river, the drinking water, and now it's in the people's drinking.
	It's unbelievable.
	And it's been going on for a while.
	So, and it seems like anywhere Jordan Sheridan goes in this country, he finds polluted water in the richest country the face of the earth has ever seen.
	Meanwhile, we're bobbing the shit out of the rest of the world right now.
	Thousand military bases all around the world.
	Can't even count them.
	But, you know, who's going to pay for that?
	Anyway, so Jordan Sheridan went down there, watch our video where he tells us all about it, what the hell is going on there.
	It's pretty amazing.
	He interviewed, he also interviewed the mayor of this.
	It's unbelievable.
	So here he's interviewing a woman who's affected by the water being poised.
	By the way, establishment media not even touching the story.
	They haven't, they haven't cut.
	So it's only, I mean, when I say establishment, I mean national media.
	Jordan Sheridan was the only national reporter at that press conference today to talk about this.
	The only one.
	Nobody from the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, MSNBC.
	They're not even talking about the update with Dapple.
	No, they're not.
	They're not even talking about that trial.
	No, it's remarkable.
	It is remarkable what they're not covering, correct?
	But the New York Times did take some editorial space to blame Bernie Sanders and his supporters for the shooting of Steve Scalise.
	But they can't get on this.
	Well, you know, all those left-wing gun nuts.
	I mean, it's always.
	It's always those left-wingers.
	They love their guns.
	Oh, those crazy progressives and their love of the killing machines.
	So, Jerry's Jones.
	So here's what's happening.
	Here's an actual voter person, swing state.
	And you think the Democrats would be making an issue out of this.
	Hey, let's get Pruitt and the EPA and Trump's EPA has not fixed nothing.
	Isn't that weird?
	It is weird.
	But what do they want to do?
	They want to put Russia's sanctions.
	They just voted to put Russia's sanctions and Iran sanctions.
	Here's Jordan Sheridan talking to an American who's being let down by their government.
	I do not care about Russia investigations right now.
	Like, that is not my concern.
	The people who are in my family, my friends, that's not a major concern.
	We want clean water.
	We want good jobs and living wages.
	You know, it's not right to put these corporations and the people who run them over us, the taxpayers who are here, you know, putting in effort to make our communities better and doing what society wants us to do.
	Why do we have to do what we're supposed to do?
	But corporations don't have to worry about anything that they do.
	Oh, I'll tell you why.
	And we have a bought government.
	That's why.
	Money, bought government.
	The Democrats, just as corrupt.
	That's what happened.
	They choose their donors over you.
	That's what's happening.
	That's what's happening.
	That's why Bernie Sanders gets a standing ovation when he goes down to that part of the country.
	Just do whatever they want.
	It's ridiculous.
	And the media needs to get up on it because they are not focusing on the right things at all.
	What are they focusing on?
	Let's hear what she said.
	Let me hear it one more time because this is kind of good.
	I do not care about Russia investigations right now.
	Like, that is not my concern.
	The people who are in my family, my friends, that's not a major concern.
	We want clean water.
	We want good jobs and living wages.
	You know, it's not right to pie in the sky.
	Oh, geese.
	What's the Kremlin paying her?
	I mean, come on.
	The kids today, huh, with the hair and the clothes and the wanting the living wage.
	And the clean water.
	And the clean water.
	Oh, what are they going to ask for next?
	Clean air?
	An end to the wars?
	Affordable education opportunities?
	A jobs program maybe to help rebuild America's infrastructure?
	No, no.
	I would fix something that's not broken.
	Everything's great.
	I hope they don't do any of that stuff and just focus on Russia and pretend that Russia's trying to try to invade America somehow.
	It's almost like Russia's poisoning our water.
	It's almost like, oh, but you know what, though, Steph?
	They're not.
	And you know how I know Russia's not poisoning our water?
	Because if they were, Rachel Maddow would be on it.
	Maybe if we told them Russia's poisoning our water, maybe the establishment press will cover it and maybe Congress will do something about it.
	But right now, neither of them are doing a dick about it because who gives a F?
	Russia, baby.
	This doesn't help your donors.
	The donors don't care about this story.
	In fact, the donors want this story to go away.
	Well, let's not forget the other reason corporate media always grossly underreports environmental issues is because you turn on any cable news station.
	It's not just Fox either.
	It's CNN.
	It's MSNBC.
	It doesn't matter.
	Every third commercial, and that's a conservative estimate.
	Every third commercial is the oil and gas company.
	You think they're doing that because they got to get the word out?
	Like, hey, we're poisoning your water.
	We want you to know we're in the neighborhood.
	No, they're doing that because, hey, we're giving you all these advertising dollars.
	Don't publish stuff that's going to make us look bad.
	Yes, the news media is very liberal, Ron, and it's being very liberal.
	The news media is very liberal, and it's being brought to you by oil giants, the military-industrial complex, and Wall Street, and Walmart, and Comcast.
	And Copcast, and Archer Daniels Midland.
	Why do they, why does Archer Daniels Midland advertise on Meet the Press?
	Are you in the business to own to buy something that Archer Daniel Midland sells?
	I don't know what.
	Well, you know, if I was in that business, I would think I'd already know who Archer Daniel Midland is and what I'd need to get for them, Steph.
	I actually just finished watching the PBS story covering the water crisis, and it was so good to know that the Koch Foundation was helping produce this.
	Oh, that was on the PBS on PBS.
	Oh, they also, oh, we got to do that story.
	PBS just ran a three-hour show on about why we should privatize education like Betsy DeVos wants to.
	That's PBS.
	They did that.
	Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep.
	Three-hour long show.
	Bill and Medelinda Gates.
	Don't forget about that.
	Fantastic.
	So there you go.
	That's a regular person talking about a real issue.
	Guess what?
	Guess what's not on her radar?
	Russia.
	Guess what they're going to call me for saying that?
	I'll probably be called a racist, misogynist, and violent.
	That's what they do to progressives.
	That's what's happening nonstop 24-7.
	And boy, I used to feel sorry for Glenn Greenwald, the way the establishment Democrats and corporatists attacked him unfairly and smeared his name because he was telling the truth about their side.
	And now not only do I feel for him, but I know how he feels.
	There you go.
	The Democrats should take the advice of this voter and work on those problems.
	The Democrats aren't going to do that.
	In fact, they're becoming shittier as we speak.
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	Now let's get on to the second half.
	Oh, geez.
	I hope this isn't former Governor Mitt Romney telling me that he's stoking speculation again.
	Hello, Jimmy.
	This is former Governor Mitt Romney.
	I'd like to tell you, I'm stoking speculation again.
	Okay, but about what?
	Please indulge me for a moment, will you?
	I shall tell you, but only under the condition that it's done through short-form improv.
	Short-form improv.
	Why?
	I've been taking a few workshops, Jimmy, to help strengthen my public speaking skills and instill personal confidence.
	Ring ring.
	Say yes or and, Jimmy.
	What?
	Hello.
	Ready?
	Ring ring.
	Hello.
	Ring ring.
	I answered the phone, mitt.
	I said hello already.
	Ah, sorry.
	Can we do a takeover?
	I mean, take a do-over.
	I get nervous sometimes.
	Yesterday, our instructor base fall into each other's arms.
	I couldn't do it.
	It's all about trust, Jimmy.
	You as a performer should know this.
	Ring ring.
	Hello.
	Hi, may I please speak to the decision maker of the house, i.e.
	the man?
	I am the man.
	Thank you.
	We're taking a poll today, and I'd like to ask you some questions.
	Are you ready?
	All right, sure.
	Who would you rather see as the next senator from Utah?
	Orrin Hatch, an old fucked up fart with only 30,000 Twitter followers, or me, Mitt Romney.
	Are those my only choices?
	What would you say if I told you Joe Biden just told me I, Mitt Romney, should run for Senate in Utah?
	I don't care.
	That's not yes and Jimmy.
	You're breaking the fourth wall.
	Okay, I'd say Joe Biden is part of the reason the Democratic Party is in shambles.
	And curtains.
	Got a good button on that, Jimmy.
	Well done.
	Wow, I am spent.
	It's going to take me a while to come down off this performance high.
	How do you do it every night?
	The roar of the crowd, the bright lights in your eyes, the smell of fear peeves.
	It just takes years of practice in front of audiences, Mitt, and the inability to relate to others on a one-to-one basis.
	Show business is a lot like politics, but without any health care.
	Well, good word, Jimmy.
	You're an inspiration.
	I don't know who to, but I'm sure you are.
	Thanks, Mitt.
	So are you going to take Joe Biden's advice and run for the Senate in 2018?
	Did you hear that?
	That was me sitting in silence while smiling.
	Well, most humans find that creepy.
	Those who know me get that I'm stoking speculation while at a posh ski resort with Joe Biden.
	Viva la resistance.
	I know how to speak French, Jimmy.
	I spent my draft years, I mean, formative years, in the wilds of France as a missionary.
	I risked my life trying to convince those people to abandon their socialist hell of universal health care and delicious food for the enriching lifestyle of a sexually repressed Mormon without access to coffee.
	Needless to say, I was pelted with stale baguettes and smelly cheeses.
	That sounds horrible, Mitt.
	Worst two years of my life.
	Well, you could have gone to Vietnam along with a lot of other men your age.
	Ring ring.
	Hello.
	Hi, it's Mitt Romney.
	We had a bad connection.
	I think we got cut off.
	What were we talking about again?
	No matter.
	And Curtin.
	Well done again, good sir.
	You really know your improv.
	Thanks.
	Well, it's time for my nap with The Lord, my father.
	Got to keep fit, you know.
	We have a lot of work to do if we're ever going to take back the Republican Party from the Democrats who encouraged us to run Donald Trump because they thought he'd lose.
	Are you going to run?
	What am I doing right now, Jimmy?
	Sitting there silently smiling?
	Darn right, Bikecrackers.
	Say, which campaign slogan do you prefer?
	Can rested and ready or old, moderately intelligent and covered with liver spots.
	I'm back, fuckers.
	And this time I'm going to give 147% of myself.
	No prisoners.
	Everybody gets baptized this time.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	you you Hi, everybody.
	Welcome to the Jimmy Door Show.
	I'm here with the miserable liberal Stephs Zabarano and Ron Placone.
	Hey, Audi.
	So guess what?
	I don't know if you've noticed.
	I live in the Los Angeles area.
	I'm originally from Chicago.
	And housing is unaffordable.
	They're not building enough affordable housing.
	So that's putting the pressure on renters.
	It's putting the pressure on first-time homebuyers.
	You know, I live in a not-affluent part of the city.
	Not affluent at all.
	Regular people live here next to me, regular, normal people.
	And our houses, we spend way more on our housing than we should.
	You're supposed, they say you're supposed to spend like 30% or less on your housing.
	That's what they say, whoever they is.
	And well, here's, they did a study.
	Harvard did a study recently.
	It's by Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University, the state of the nation's housing 2017.
	So they've come to some pretty good conclusions.
	Did you know that one-third of households in 2015 were cost-burdened?
	That's the term they use, cost-burdened, meaning they spend 30% or more of their income to cover housing costs.
	So I guess maybe it's even less than 30%, they say.
	I was always heard the number in my head was 30% of your income should go towards your housing.
	Maybe it should never be more than a third.
	Or never more than a third.
	It's like a third three, and it should never, ever be more than that.
	So here they say if you're spending 30% or more, you are considered cost-burdened.
	I'm just signing up and putting a bow on it.
	Yeah.
	Cost-burden.
	Like, dude, they're breaking my bank.
	Oh, you're cost-burdened.
	Poor fella.
	What happened to that guy?
	He's cost-burden.
	Poor cost burden.
	Of that group, of the people spending 30% or more of their incomes to cover their housing course, of that group, nearly 19 million people are paying more than 50% of their income to cover their housing needs.
	And I'm going to say most of that's probably happening here in the Los Angeles, the greater Los Angeles metropolitan area.
	It's amazing.
	So in my neighborhood, regular house, one toilet, one bathroom, two bedroom is almost, it's over a half a million dollars easy.
	What?
	So to buy that house, you got to come up with a frickin $100,000 down payment.
	Who can do that?
	So I don't know what's going on.
	I do not know.
	You know something else, so we can expand the reach a little bit.
	The sentence that I've heard before uttered was, man, I think I want to move to L.A. because it's a lot cheaper.
	Who said that to me once?
	My sister.
	She lives in San Francisco.
	So, I mean, it's crazy.
	I mean, and what she has to deal with.
	I mean, she has a studio pretty much with her boyfriend, and they pay like, I think like about $4,000 in rent.
	Really?
	Yeah, it is insane.
	Well, that's the big deal with teachers in San Francisco.
	Most of them cannot live inside the city.
	So that's the weird thing, right, Steph?
	So now they have to import their teachers to come teach their kids.
	Isn't that weird?
	Well, the high school that I teach at, their million-dollar homes across the street.
	You could afford to.
	What teacher can afford even trying to come up with a down payment?
	Who can come up with a down payment?
	So to buy a million-dollar house, the down payment is $200,000.
	Minimum, right?
	That's what you got to put down.
	If you have good credit.
	Who's got that?
	Who's got $200?
	You got $200,000 sitting in your top drawer?
	I don't understand.
	Rainy Day Fund.
	So here, there's more to this.
	It depends on household type.
	Families with kids.
	So here's what they do.
	So when people don't have the money, they cut back on stuff, right?
	So if you have to spend more than 30% of your, if you're cost-burdened, people start to have to, you have to cut costs other places.
	And it depends on household type.
	Families with kids, they cut back pretty severely on food.
	I guess who needs that?
	That's no biggie.
	That was said by Jennifer Malinsky, a senior research associate at the center.
	Older adults cut back a lot on health care.
	Once again, no big deal, especially as you get older.
	Richest country in the world.
	Our kids don't have food and our old people don't have medicine.
	Richest country in the world.
	You know what that's called?
	That's called a fucked up system.
	That's a broken system.
	Our capitalistic system right now, as it's working in America, is exactly what Karl Marx said was going to happen.
	It's freaking predatory, exploitive, and it eats itself, which is why we have six companies bringing us every newspaper, every radio station, every TV news show, every magazine, every radio show, six companies.
	So this is the system we're in right now.
	The system that takes the richest country in the world and makes old people not afford medicine and kids can't get food.
	That's the system we're in.
	Moving on, in 2015, there were almost 25 million children living in cost-burden households.
	Low-income families with children that are paying more than half their incomes to cover housing cut back the most on food, according to the report.
	They spend those families who are cost-burdened and are in poverty, they spend less than $300 a month on food compared with households with no cost burdens, which spend about $500 on food.
	So almost double.
	Isn't that something in America?
	Wow.
	I don't even think I could do that for myself, like as an individual.
	Like just $300 a month on food.
	$300 a month on food?
	Beans and rice, Rob.
	Oh, okay.
	I got a lot of friends.
	He says, H beans and rice.
	That's what Sean Hannity says.
	To make ends meet, these families often do not buy enough food for their households, or they substitute cheaper but less nutritious foods, either of which can jeopardize their children's health and development, the report stated.
	Low housing inventory levels have helped push up home prices as many markets struggle with the supply and demand imbalance.
	Bidding wars are common in some places.
	So what's happening is we know what the problem is.
	They're not building enough affordable housing.
	And the government goes, so my developer friend wants to develop luxury condos in Los Angeles.
	Guess what we're going to get?
	Luxury condos.
	If you're a real estate developer and you want to develop high-end rental properties, guess what we're getting?
	High-end rental properties.
	We're not getting affordable housing in Los Angeles or San Francisco or New York, nowhere.
	Which is why we're getting screwed in America.
	People in America have to spend 30 to 50% of their income on their frickin' housing.
	Home prices fell off a cliff after the 2007 housing crash, but they have been rising and last year surpassed their pre-recession peak.
	How scary is that?
	So the last time housing prices were this high, it was called a bubble that was manufactured by the predatory loaning of Wall Street and also their what used to be considered illegal practices.
	Now they're legal.
	They turned investment banking into casino hopping.
	And spoiler alert, guess what bubbles do?
	So we're back there now.
	We're back to where we were at the peak of the bubble.
	We're back.
	Feel good about that?
	By the way, Sears' stock went up last week.
	What?
	Sears closing stores.
	So something weird is happening.
	There's a bubble happening.
	I'm not a again, people like me, I think, disqualify themselves for going, well, I'm not an economist.
	Well, guess what?
	Every economist was 100% wrong about what the F was going on and what led to our crash.
	Guess who wasn't wrong?
	Me.
	I've told this story before that I was walking around my neighborhood in 2006, and I couldn't believe, like, wait a minute, there aren't a bunch of doctors and lawyers and movie stars moving into my neighborhood.
	These are still regular blue-collar workers in my neighborhood, teachers, right?
	Stuff like that.
	Nurses, right?
	Teachers, nurses, regular people live in my neighborhood.
	How can they afford these houses?
	How can they afford a $700,000 one-bathroom house?
	Well, it turns out the hostess that they weren't affording it.
	Turns out they had no money down, no interest-only loans.
	And then everything came crashing down.
	So I was asking that question: what?
	What's going on?
	Something's fishy because I couldn't afford to buy a house in my old neighborhood right now, and nobody's moved out, nobody's moved in.
	What's going on?
	So I was, we talked about this on our other podcast on comedy and everything else before we were doing the Jimmy Door show.
	I talked about this.
	I had a friend who was a mortgage broker who told me all about this.
	He says, yeah, it's all great.
	It's all crazy.
	There's no rules, and everybody's getting rich.
	So.
	You know, Jimmy, I just want to add one more thing.
	You know, as you're talking about these families that are food deprived and they forgo nutritional food for their kids, right now, in our neighborhood, three grocery stores have shut down.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Three huge grocery stores have shut down in our neighborhood.
	Huh?
	By the way, Jeff Bezos just bought Whole Foods.
	The guy was worth $80 billion just bought Whole Foods.
	Just so you know.
	Yes, but doesn't he want to do charitable work?
	He wants to do charity now.
	That's another video.
	Okay.
	Home prices fell off a cliff after the 2007 housing crash, but they have been rising and last year surpassed their pre-recession peak.
	That price appreciation has scared away many wannabe buyers.
	It hasn't scared them away.
	It's priced them out of the frickin market.
	They have been forced to rent.
	Demand for rental units has increased and push-up prices also.
	Okay.
	As a result, the report found that 11 million renter households pay more than half their income on housing, a 3.7 million increase from 2001.
	So what the F. So what's supposed to happen now is that this is supposed to be reported loudly and repeatedly until government does something about it.
	But this isn't going to be, and government isn't going to do anything about it.
	Just look at what the country, our freaking corporatized government has given us.
	People, the big GoFundMe, most of the GoFundMes are because people can't afford their health care.
	Old people are cutting back on their, the old are elderly.
	Kids can't get food.
	Half of our income's going towards housing.
	And nobody, nobody has a plan to fix any of this.
	Nobody's even freaking talking about it.
	We accept it as normal.
	Remember when we did a video about that GoFundMe commercial where the product of their commercial was, hey, our old relative needs a hip replacement.
	So they're going to go fund me.
	This is normalized now.
	Richest country in the world.
	It is.
	It is normalized.
	Here's the last part of the CNN article covering this.
	It says, Miami has the highest percentage of cost-burden renters.
	62% of the people renting in Miami spend more than wow.
	Followed by Los Angeles.
	Yay.
	Oh, yay.
	We're numbered.
	No.
	That's bad.
	So 57% of renters in Los Angeles are what they consider to be cost-burdened.
	That's almost six out of ten renters.
	Cost-burdened in a bad set.
	And there's no plans to fit.
	Eric Garcetti has no plans to fix anything.
	And 94% of the 57% in Los Angeles are comedians, too.
	So really.
	So there you go.
	I bring you that Harvard report.
	It could have told you what I actually it is kind of shocking.
	It's even worse than we thought.
	It's even worse than I thought.
	And you know, Jimmy, I have to add this because it's been very startling when you drive through Los Angeles and you see one home after another that's a tent on the side of a freeway.
	And they are growing and growing.
	There's 10 cities now in Los Angeles, right?
	So we should go out and do a video on those people, except I don't know if they want to be, well, we'll ask.
	Yeah, there was a tent community outside of my old apartment complex in Silver Lake.
	So in a pretty urban part of the city.
	Right.
	There was like a community just behind some woods.
	So where I exit off the two-freeway when I'm going to Hollywood, where I exit, there's a viaduct there and there's just tents.
	Everybody's living in tents underneath there.
	These are Americans.
	I've lived here all my life.
	Never saw that.
	I have never seen that.
	Never saw that.
	I've seen poverty.
	That's not what I'm saying.
	I haven't seen this growing population of people having to live on the streets.
	Okay, richest country in the world.
	Gonna spend another $55 billion on bombs next year.
	I mean, extra on top of.
	Gotta be looking out.
	Gotta look out.
	Gotta beat at least the next 13 countries.
	You know who is in the third?
	You got a reputation.
	Yes, that's right.
	You got a reputation, Ron.
	You know, those people sleeping under the bridge, you know who's not a threat to them?
	ISIS, Russia, Syria, Assad, Honduras, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Yemen.
	You know what is a threat to those people?
	Goldman Sachs, Amazon, The Washington Post, Wall Street, Walmart, the pharmaceutical industry, the health insurance industry.
	Most bankruptcies are caused by illnesses in America.
	Most bankruptcies are caused by illnesses, and then you end up living in a tent.
	That's the threat to America.
	The predatory capitalistic system that we all think is great.
	Nancy Puller, we're just capitalists.
	That says the way that no, we're fucking not.
	And we don't have to be.
	Hey, everybody, welcome to this edition of the Young Turks.
	I am here with the progressive champion, Nina Turner.
	Hey, Nina, how are you?
	Hey, Jimmy, it's fine.
	It's great to be here with you.
	I've admired you from afar.
	You say stuff that I can't, you know, you my off.
	I get to swear.
	I get to swear and say the F-word very loud because I grew up Catholic.
	All right.
	So now, I just wanted to, before we get into the meat of it, tell me about how much Jerry Springer helps the Democratic Party.
	Oh, Jimmy.
	I'm not going to.
	I'm just teasing.
	No, I'm serious because I want the viewers to know that I know the Springer show, and I know how he makes his money.
	He is an entertainer.
	But Jerry Springer, Jimmy, actually came into Ohio in 2014 and helped me campaign for Secretary of State.
	Oh, no kidding.
	He did.
	He really is a deep thinker.
	People are just judging him based on, well, you know, the show.
	Look at you.
	You educated me.
	He did.
	2014 came to help the system run for Secretary of State.
	He's a deep thinker, and I don't know if he would call himself progressive, but I would bet he's more progressive than people think.
	Okay.
	So tell me, that's fantastic.
	Now, everybody's excited about this conference and how you don't have to be ashamed to be a progressive.
	And this is what's happening.
	Be ashamed not to be.
	I mean, it's the opposite here.
	Right.
	Right.
	Yeah.
	So what do you see the progressive movement going forward, right?
	We just had another setback in California where they installed a pharmaceutical lobbyist as the chairman of the party over the wishes of the electorate, obviously.
	So what do you think we can do going forward to kind of reform the Democratic Party?
	I mean, we got to keep pushing.
	Jimmy, you bring up something.
	I was there with Kimberly Ellis, who was actually here somewhere in this building.
	And what she did was incredible.
	And that was really Bernie Kratz and progressives doing the work before the work, which is they were running in their respective districts so that they could be a part of the decision-making process so that when it came time to vote within the Democratic Party structure, they were there to be able to vote for her.
	She lost by 62 votes against an establishment Democrat, which says a whole lot for the force of the movement.
	So we must continue to move.
	We must continue to run in those spaces so that we are there to cast our vote.
	The Democratic Party, that's not everybody, but it's the set people who get a chance to run.
	But we can have influence in that same way.
	And we know that Ellis asked for an audit because she believes that the results might not be what they said that they were.
	But the bottom line here is, has she not tried?
	Have Bernie Kras and even some Clinton supporters, she was the bridge to bring those two sides together who actually voted for her.
	And I'm actually proud of what she has accomplished.
	But it is very telling that, you know, the pharmaceutical.
	I mean, so that gentleman who's now the chairman of the California Democratic Party literally took $100,000 last year from the pharmaceutical industry to fight against Bernie's bill for cheaper pharmaceutical drugs inside California, which he could have passed.
	He took the money.
	He fought against it.
	Now he's leading the resistance.
	So what do you think about when people use the term the resistance?
	What I say is that they're just resisting Trump, but they're not resisting corporatism.
	They're not resisting the military industrial complex or Wall Street or fracking or any of that.
	What do you say to when people say the resistance?
	No, that's it.
	It has to be holistic, Jimmy.
	This is not just about Trump.
	You know, if you ask people in Flint, is their water dirty because of Mr. Trump?
	They would say that three and a half years ago, the Democrats could have done something about that.
	So this is not just about him, even though he has proven himself up until this point to be unworthy of the office.
	Let me make that straight.
	But at the same time, there are other folks who've had the power a lot longer who could have done some things for people.
	Clean water.
	We could have fixed the Affordable Care Act a long time ago before now.
	And look what the Republicans are doing to throw 24 million people off of health care is inhumane.
	So no, this is not just about resisting Mr. Trump.
	This is about resisting establishment Democrats.
	This is about resisting policies that do not lift people.
	This is about resisting going backwards in this country.
	And that's from the local level to the federal level.
	So we got a Democratic mayor in this city.
	Don't even get me started about the South Side and West Side of Chicago.
	He's a bunch of stuff to resist.
	So you're talking about Ram Emmanuel, who is what we would consider a corporate Democrat.
	I mean, he's done gone top to the, he's privatizing parking meters.
	You know what I mean?
	Closing schools, 200 schools in Chicago, which are community centers.
	I mean, that's devastating to the community.
	It is to those communities, right?
	And no one really cares.
	So he's not a champion of public education.
	Neoliberalism commodifies everything, including education, and that's what we need to resist.
	Yes, yes.
	So do you want, now tell me how you do you think the, I don't know how close you followed it, but across the pond, Jeremy Corbyn had a huge victory and pushed back against the conservatives.
	People are, and I heard that there was another 150,000 people joined the Labor Party after the election.
	So there's a big groundswell.
	People are pushing back against neoliberalism and corporatism.
	Do you think that's a good sign for the America?
	I do all over the world.
	Revolution is happening all over the world.
	The masses are rising up to really say what Fannie Lou Hamer said, you know, I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired, that enough is enough and that we are going to use our collective energies to force it.
	And Jimmy, as you and I know, and I know people get discouraged, but change in this country and change in the world never happens from the grass tops.
	It always happens by the grassroots.
	And it's hard.
	It's hard work, but it's worthy.
	It's worth it.
	Even to the point of something as simple as, say, gay marriage, right?
	Let's remember that the Democratic leaders were some of the last people to come around to that, right?
	Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.
	They were one of some of the last people to come around to that.
	So even that, they don't push hard enough.
	So the establishment media is not a fan of progressives, right?
	The Washington Post ran 16 negative stories on Bernie in 16 hours.
	We saw what the establishment media did to Jeremy Corbyn.
	They tried to tie him to terrorism, right?
	But people saw through it.
	Do you think we're at a point where the establishment smears of progressives actually help progressives like it ended up doing for Jeremy Corbyn?
	In some ways, but that is why we need independent media, like you guys do.
	We also need everybody out.
	Everybody with a smartphone, with a phone now can report some stuff, the truth, and tell the story through their eyes.
	Yes, it does strengthen.
	But you know, Jimmy, Nelson Mandela said at one time that it always seems impossible until it is done.
	And so the candidacy of somebody like Jeremy Corbyn shows that if we continue to be, it's not just about resistance, it's about resilience.
	And that is what the progressive movement is about, resilience.
	If the unionist movement hadn't fought for an eight-hour workday or days off, they would still be working them to death, working children.
	If my ancestors hadn't fought for freedom and liberty and all that good stuff, then I might not be here sitting next to you.
	If women hadn't fought for their right to vote, progress happens, but it is every generation's responsibility to keep pushing until the day comes.
	And then we're going to have something else to fight.
	It is a never-ending battle, but progressives are on the right track, Jimmy.
	But we can't just be right about the issues.
	We have to start winning elections.
	And we are winning some.
	We are.
	But we've got to win more.
	So what do you say to the people who say that the progressive message doesn't sell in rural America?
	Do you believe that?
	Are you kidding me?
	No, I do not believe that.
	And I've traveled all over this country, as you know, for Senator Bernie Sanders.
	I've traveled in my state.
	And the people in Chillicothe, Ohio, which is in Ross County, which is a more rural district, want the same thing that the people in Cuyahoga County in Cleveland, where I'm from.
	They want to know that they can have a good life, not decent.
	People don't get up for decent.
	They get up for good.
	And why can't working class people have good?
	Is that only reserved for wealthy folks?
	They want to make sure that they have children, that their children will have a better future than what they have.
	And I've not had one person in rural America tell me anything different than somebody in urban America has told me.
	We cannot continue to let people divide us because what unites us is stronger and deeper than what divides us.
	I always try to tell people that, you know, they think, well, if you're in a red state or a rural place or a purple, you have to become more conservative to appeal to those people.
	And I'm like, well, the whole point of having an agenda or a progressive ideology is to go convince people that our ideology will actually make their life better because that's why we believe it.
	If we didn't think it would do that, why would we believe it?
	So I think if people make the case, in fact, when people are polled, we know this across the country, people are progressive on the issues, right?
	So people know.
	People see through the neoliberalism, I think, now, and they know that their lives haven't been getting better since 1980, coincidentally, right?
	So I would urge people to, do you think that candidates should push a progressive agenda, even in red, rural places, because it will help them and make their lives better?
	I do, Jimmy.
	There's no red or blue way to be poor, right?
	There's no black or white way to be poor, Hispanic or Native American or Asian, anybody that's suffering.
	Now, I will say that people of color, because of the history of discrimination and racism in this country, that I need my white sisters and brothers to understand that the suffering is deeper and more systemic.
	But if you were to ask somebody, if somebody, if you were a conservative and I was a liberal, or oh Lord, I want to be a liberal, progressive, right?
	And you needed help, you're not going to stop to figure out whether or not I'm progressive or not.
	You just want to know that I am going to help you.
	And that is what people who are running for office are going to have to do.
	You know, the millennial generation, which is the most diverse generation, the largest generation, they showed us what the future should look like.
	That's why Senator Bernie Sanders won almost over 2 million more votes than both Secretary Clinton and Mr. Trump combined is because the millennials know the kind of future that they want to inherit, that Medicare for all can happen.
	If we can invest $80 billion to house our sisters and brothers in prison, 2.2 million people in prison, why can't we take that same money on the front end and invest it in education?
	It always seems impossible until it is done.
	You got me on my roll, Jimmy.
	I'm sorry.
	When Jimmy Carter got out of the office, there was, I think there was 300,000 people in prison.
	Now there's over 2.2 million.
	So it increased sevenfold.
	And I don't think we had an increase of sevenfold in criminality.
	We just have started to criminalize poverty in America.
	To be poor in this country, they make you feel like a criminal.
	And I grew up poor.
	My parents were working class.
	My parents got married young.
	It didn't work out.
	And so I grew up the majority of my life in a single parent household, Jimmy.
	And my mother died at the age of 42 years old with her dreams deferred.
	And I was 22.
	My baby sister was 12.
	There's seven of us, and I'm the oldest of those children.
	And that is why I feel deeply because I know what it is like to watch my mother cry herself to sleep because she doesn't have money to buy seven kids Christmas presents or not to know where our next meal is going to come from or our electricity is cut off because my mother couldn't pay the bill.
	Our stories are our strength, Jimmy.
	And there are millions of people in this country who have the same story.
	The narrative might be a little different.
	The way they tell it might be a little different, but suffering is suffering.
	And unless we can relate to humanity, this is a human experience that we're talking about, not a red or blue or black or white experience.
	This is about humanity.
	And it is time that elected officials, people who want the privilege of having the people's power, stand up and start serving the people and stop serving their own damn interests.
	I'm just, I'm over it, Jimmy.
	I'm over it too.
	It's about serving the people, not the donors, and that's the problem, right?
	People care about the donors too much.
	We have, I've noticed over my lifetime that it used to be, because I grew up Catholic, and we had a.
	You swear so much.
	And so we, you know, we used to have to be charitable towards the poor and we tried to lift them up and there before the grace of God go high and all that stuff.
	But it seems now that we've shamed people who are poor and we've shamed work.
	Like people who have minimum wage jobs are like, somehow you should be ashamed of work and no one should be ashamed.
	And everybody, and by the way, dignity, human dignity does not come by selling your body to a capitalist, right?
	You are born with human dignity, right?
	You don't need to go get it from a company or a corporation or a capitalist.
	You have it inherent in your humanness.
	That's part of our social contract, right?
	That's part of what the founding fathers, even though at the time they weren't talking about everybody.
	Right?
	But we were able to build on that.
	But yes, human dignity.
	And we want everybody.
	You know, I think Helen Keller said it best.
	She said, one must never consent to creep when one feels the urge to soar.
	We want everybody from all walks of life to feel the urge to soar.
	We have got to start having those hard conversations.
	Everybody who voted for Mr. Trump, you know, we, you know, we have leaders that belittle the people that voted for Mr. Trump.
	That's not the way to win people over.
	I'm not going to win you over by calling you names, but I win you over by seeing your humanity and seeing your need and listening to your story.
	The stories are our strength.
	So I agree 100%.
	I think that people misread a lot of the Trump supporters because I think that they wanted to smash the establishment and that was the only way left to do it.
	And so they took that opportunity.
	And so everybody wants to smash.
	You know, Bernie Sanders' message actually did resonate with a lot of those people because they could tell he was authentic and he wasn't bought, right?
	That's right.
	It was authenticity.
	I've met and talked to voters who actually voted for Senator Sanders in the primary, but they voted for, you know, Mr. Trump in the general election because they were just over the, over, they want to have somebody and they wanted somebody in office.
	Now, they didn't get it this time.
	But he took over Senator Sanders' populist message in a way.
	Not to the, he went all the way to the negative with it, but when he started talking about trade deals, that spoke to people in my home state of Ohio when he said that the TPP was not going to work.
	That spoke to people in Ohio and Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.
	Now, make no mistake about it.
	He is unworthy of the office.
	But just fighting against him alone, after we fight against him, then what's left?
	Are we going back to business as usual before he got into office?
	Or will we have a vision and a purpose that is bigger and stronger than all of us?
	And that is really what the candidacy of Senator Bernie Sanders, and that is why he was able to capture the imagination of so many people, Jimmy, who were not even in the process before he dared to be, as Teddy Roosevelt said, the man in the arena, the doer of the deeds.
	And that is why we're at the People Summit right now.
	4,000 of our closest friends, Jimmy, are here.
	All right.
	How do we convince everybody to start thinking big?
	We're doing it right now.
	This is it, that the power is in their hands.
	You know, titles are good, but purpose is better.
	And if everybody feels as though they have a purpose, they have work, they have value, and to unite with other people who feel the same way.
	And for us to see other people's humanity before soft on people, hard on issues, soft on people.
	Now, Jimmy, you need to work on that because you hard on people and the issues.
	But I really do mean that we can't tear each other down to get to where we need to be.
	Now, if somebody's flat out of racist, then we call them what they are.
	They're sexists or ageists.
	And I want to say the ageism is not a good look because I know some folks talking about Senator Sanders can't run because he's going to be.
	Who cares?
	You know what I mean?
	Nelson Mandela, the great, you know, came out of prison after 27 years and spoke truth to power and pulled in even people who benefited from an apartheid system.
	He showed love to them.
	Truth and reconciliation, yes.
	And he took that country to a higher level.
	It always seems impossible, he said, until it is done.
	And that is what we need in this country, an understanding of one another to fight together, to pray together, not necessarily to fight each other, but to do this damn thing together.
	Jimmy, you got me cussing.
	I'm so happy.
	Neither, that's great.
	Let me get just a final question.
	I really appreciate you spending time.
	You're just an amazing force, and you're exactly what the country needs, and I don't mind saying that as loud as I can.
	So now, a lot of people are disenchanted with the Democratic Party because we see a rigged system because of the super delegates.
	And I just found out California has their own version of super delegates.
	And they just admitted in court that they don't have to run a fair primary.
	Cigar smoke room.
	And we did that Democratic Party just had their lowest fundraising month since 2009 because of that, I think, had a lot to do with it, that they admitted they don't run fair primaries.
	So what could we do to make sure we have a fair primary?
	Is there anything we could do?
	What should we do?
	Well, one of the things that we are working on right now is the Unity and Reform Commission.
	I want people to really try to give that a chance.
	I'm on that commission.
	Senator Sanders appointed eight kick-ass people to that commission, and I'm one of those.
	Nomiki is another one of those.
	There are others that are there, and we are working through that process.
	We're going to work on super delegates and other things that really came out during the primary.
	Hopefully we can make the change.
	But I do want people not to rest all of their hopes in an institution or an organization of systems.
	This is really about the grassroots continuing to demand of the Democratic Party.
	Make a demand.
	Frederick Douglass said power can seize nothing without a demand.
	But I do want people, I really do.
	Now, I'm a rogue Democrat, and they don't appreciate it.
	I am an unbought, unbossed Shirley Chisholm, Bernie Kratt.
	But I do want people to continue to push, push the Democratic Party hard to be everything that it is supposed to be, but give the Unity Reform Commission a chance.
	We're going to fight on.
	Okay, so I'm for pushing a holding there.
	If a lot of people wanted to hold Hillary Clinton's feet to the fire after the election, I'm for holding their feet to the fire.
	Right now.
	Right now, before the election.
	Right now.
	No, we got to do it right now.
	And if the Democratic Party just is unable or unwilling to go back to its FDR roots.
	I don't want it to go too far back, Jimmy, because if it go too far back, it ain't good for my folks.
	But just FDR.
	Yeah, right.
	We'll stop there.
	We're going to stop there.
	But they need to go back to their roots and really be that kind of party.
	And if they're unwilling and unable to do that, then they don't deserve the votes of the people.
	I agree.
	Maybe something else needs to be started.
	I hear there's a draft burning for a people's party going on.
	I'm on.
	I'm on that.
	We're trying to draft them.
	Yeah, maybe, maybe, I am too.
	I want them to do this.
	Let the battle of the 70-somethings commence.
	Let's do it, right?
	The most popular politician in the country.
	In the country, 80% Democrats, 73% African Americans, 60-something percent of our Hispanic sisters and brothers, over 50-something percent of women, like 54%.
	And you know why he is?
	Because he has heart-soul agreement.
	And he talks about that it's not, it's all about us.
	It's not me.
	It's us.
	And that's what this is about, Jimmy.
	It's about all of us.
	Okay.
	Thank you for your leadership, Nina.
	I really appreciate it.
	Thanks for stopping by.
	Nina Turner, everybody.
	And we'll be right back on the Young Turks Live.
	Thank you.
	You know, in the wake of Trump's recent cabinet meeting, I've been getting a lot of weird messages on my voicemail, and I really don't know what to make of them.
	Maybe it's Stockholm Syndrome or something.
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