California Senator Kamala Harris answers audience members' questions about the 2020 presidential race and the Trump administration's controversial immigration policies.
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Really how we can really really get it up. I have one question and then and then think of questions that you have as well and then I'll come to you in the audience. Please like this is like someone is running for President Salami, like what you favorite color, like think of, like a real question and then you'll get to ask if I have one question, which is a silly one, but it goes to what we spoke about earlier in terms of like what people consider scandal for everyone who is not from you on the breakfast club, and they asked you feel it ever smoked weed, and you said yes and then someone said to oh what music we listings doesn't want what you listened to when you are getting highly everyone. She looked forward at the same time,
and they came on- and you said either since new by this new cod II be Ellison, Tupac and then like Fox nuisance of came on and they were like. There was no tupac when you weren't clearly re it was crazy. It was literally my my communications team said to me there is this thing: that's going on out there that has happened and, as I said, I thought they were joking. I literally thought they were joking,
I don't listen, I don't I don't nor people just bored or do they not understand complex issues, and so they have to be distracted by those that really have no difference in the lives of other people. I genuinely think it's that people have gotten used to it. I think, unlike Trump, because regular politicians as a normal people, dont have the sky
Those that he doesn't you dont have a porn star, so we have to focus on my part of that. The scandal for me was how were you listening to Tupac and enjoying him as a prosecutor, because he said some things about prosecutors in his song.
Those like damn. We you never like personally offended money of course notified now I mean it. Listen, I mean to clap also saying about the love of a mother
let us true dear Mamma, may dear Mamma, ever I mean she would be dinner. She was she loved him right, and so that was the range of to pack into pop goes ahead as Beria connection, and so there was a pride that was associated with it, but to park was prolific. He really wasn't. He died far too young. I mean you know he. It would be interesting to see where that whole genre went had. He lived longer because he was so smart in the way that he understood politics.
Social Justice issues. You know, and if you know his background of his family was active or yes, so he actually was speaking to large numbers of people with a historical context and some idea about where we should be, but also really well, articulate about that this social injustice that was happening at that moment, which include-
did the war on drugs, which included what was going on in terms of massive incarceration of young black men, in particular any spoke to that he was right, ignoble, no, imagining Tupac just like the round today,
a business man I mean I began my internet where it has all of them have become very like I'm and you look at how Rep has changed and evolved Pinatubo just like in the boardroom,
Now I mean shining holders to pay. You back, I think about your questions. What what do we have you? A jumping up there? You are jumping up hard. I am an attorney. Also, currently twenty years gone inspired, didn't you
basic people who have no imagination all or don't appear to be able to imagine themselves liking somewhat of color, not caring about what bathrooms uses. Those kinds of pigs worked with. What is your plan, because these people need to go to war? Were so that's, that's! That's an interesting point. Here's! How would I think about it? First of all, I especially to your point in this moment where we have such powerful voices that are trying to say
hate and division among us. I is really important that we reject that and we rejected in a way that also speaks the truth, which is that the vast majority of us have so much more in common than what separates us, and I know that to be true in the way that I think of it, and I talk of it wherever I go whatever the demographic of the group, I'm speaking when is this at a time when the context of the middle of the night
some people call them three in the morning thought other people caught the witching hour. You know in the middle of the night when you wake up with that thought, that's been weighing on me. Sometimes wake up in a cold wet! That's when from tweets,
well right, and so for that reason, some of us wake up just exactly panic, but for the vast majority of
when we wake up in the middle of the night with that thought one. It is never through the lens of the party with which we are registered to vote. It is never through the lens of some demographic opposed to put a thin and for the vast majority of us more, we wake up. Thinking that thought it has to do with one of just a very few things are personal health, the health of our children, our parents and I get a job. Keep a job pay the bills by the end of the month, retire
with dignity. The basement, our students. Can I pay off those student loans, so many families in America? Can I help my relative get get off of the opium goods that have addicted them. The vast majority of us have so much more in common than what separates us and so part of how we get to that play
as we start with that as our premise and really know it in our heart, in our minds and our soul and end, then go
from there and it's gonna be about unifying the country around the commonalities that we have there are certain people will never be able to talk with on in and on any extreme spectrum rights. But I'll tell you as it as another kind of story about the campaign trail. Yesterday I was in
New Hampshire, and when I was there, the reporters, the first line of questioning I got was you're New Hampshire. We heard you're not gonna, come to know Hampshire. We thought you were going to try and computer knew him
and what no one said, but the inference was well. The demographic of New Hampshire is
who you are in terms of your race and who you aren't.
I know I am competing in New Hampshire. I'm gonna be here, and I want to tell you something to them
one of the universality and and the commonality of the message I got to New Hampshire Travel,
there was a line around the block. There are fifteen hundred people shut up far if you had overflow wish all of you, but but an end. What that tells me it reinforces for me the commonality that then the demographics don't matter when it comes down to it,
is going to be about that when we're at will awaken up in the middle of the night or at the kitchen table, you notice after dinner, trying to pay the bills and get through the weak. The biggest issues that concern us are the same
and that is not to say that we also should not talk about and dont need to deal with the issue of race in America. The issue of sexism homophobia, Transphobia Anti Semitism, because those all our real too- and if nobody was clear,
bout that then Charlottesville in the tree of life, synagogues and mother Emmanuel charge should make it clear to everybody that
still have a lot of work to do on those issues as well, but I find that most people, regardless of their demographic, want to have that conversation and are willing to have a conversation.
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so, first of all his suits. Thank you for your courage to speak up and speak out
moment and to do what you're doing cuz that's really important and I think part of how we will get to the place that we need to be, but also the place we're going to get. History is going to show that they're a bunch of people right now we're on the wrong side of history. On this issue of emigres,
the reality is that we are a nation of immigrants. It has been a source of our strength and part of the way that we do. It is that we have a plan and we stick to the plan, but we Congress has not passed a bill around comprehensive immigration reform and by every indication this present one sign it. The way we get there is. We have to pass comprehensive immigration reform. We have to put in place the rules that are consistent and equally apply to everyone around how people get on the path towards citizen ship. How people apply? What are the qualifications? As you know, this is also not the immigrant population coming to the United States is not a monolith. There are people who come with eight one be visas. There are people who are Dhaka, like yourselves young people who you still have to qualify for Dhaka. You went through a process, a new path that process. That's why you got the darker cover. It.
And we have to keep our promises. Part of the failure of our system right now- is that this administration is not keeping America's promise to you as a doctor student or adopt a young person and we're not keeping our promise to whom we are as a nation, by having a meaningful path for citizenship or on comprehensive immigration form. But what we have through Congress has to act in the present. Has the sun bill I'll? Ask you one question true that before you leave, there was a time when the negotiation landed in the round a wall in exchange for darker, and it was give us this one time payment and we will give you darker in exchange you one of the three soda does, I think who voted against that? Yes, some would say centre the house, why? Why? Wouldn't you give Trump his war in exchange for
all of these people to receive the darker and to stay in the United States, because I did not agree with holding these kids ransom and that's what area made up com is to these kids. He can tell you in a longer conversation how he went through a process of answering a multitude of questions about the circumstances of of his arrival about what kind of life he is living right now is a living, a productive life. Has he ever committed a crime? They went through a whole series and when they vetted and passed, we told them that they would receive protection and one of the most important aspects of what we told them is we told them? If you answer these questions to qualify, we will not share that information with ice. We will not deport you'd, that's what we told these
People and now this administration is prepared to break that promise and share that information with ice. That is wrong, and I'm not going to support that. I'm not going to support that and that's why I voted against it
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