It is now
2024, as you are
well aware, in an election year.
I want to play for you,
President Biden's
first campaign
ad of the year is being released
in conjunction
with the anniversary of January 6th.
Something dangerous happen in America.
There's an extremist movement
does not share
the basic beliefs in our democracy.
All of us are being asked right now,
what will we do
to maintain our democracy?
How potent
do you think that will be for voters
Well, I think it's very important,
but I think it also
recognizes that democracy is
a personal issue.
Freedom to whether it is to
to have access to health care when,
if and how to have it expand your family.
Freedom to be in the workplace.
In a very strong way
because you have health care
and you have childcare.
So we have to relate democracy
to the kitchen
table, to the people's personal lives.
And that's
what I've been doing in this break, is
we don't agonize. We organize.
What's his name was running
for president said.
Obamacare sucks.
We say no Affordable Care Act cures.
So all of these things are related.
And what happened on
January 6th was a manifestation
of an assault on the personal freedoms
that we have
because it assaulted
the Congress, the Capitol
the Constitution of the United States.
But it isn't all of his message,
his messages
about what we need to
do as we go forward.
And freedom gives us that opportunity.
The kitchen
table issues are our motivation
and our mobilization
to get the job done, win the election.
And I want to ask you
about the economy in one minute.
But while you mentioned what's his name
and in case our viewers didn't get it,
you met Donald Trump.
Two states, Colorado, and Maine,
have now removed
Donald Trump from their primary ballots.
They cited his role
in the January six insurrection.
Trump is challenging these decisions.
The Supreme Court will likely decide.
Do you think it's a good idea
for states to remove Donald Trump
from their ballot?
That's up to the states.
What I think is a good idea for us
to make sure people know
what is at risk in the election.
I won't go into the courts and the law
and all of that.
Different states have different laws.
We have a different law in California
relating to that.
But what's important is
what matters to the American people
and their families at that kitchen table.
And you have to keep
bringing it back to that
because that's
what is important to our country.
But what happened on January 6th
is related to that.
Do you believe, though, just putting.
I know you're
don't want to talk about
the constitutional questions,
but just on the Raw Politics of this.
Do you agree with some who worry that
trying to take him off
the ballot is making him a martyr
and emboldening Donald Trump even more
Now,
again, that's in each of those states.
That's a matter
that they will have to deal with.
He adds, Martyrdom is martyrdom.
Is his thing. Oh, you.
He cannot be absolved
from his risk, his
accountability on all of this.
No one is above the law
and neither is he.
So this these are manifestations
of people saying that
that's up to them, to say it's up
to the American people
to honor our oath of office, to protect
and defend the Constitution,
to to address the kitchen table issues.
And the economy is big,
a kitchen table issue.
So let's talk about that access
to health care and its costs.
Okay.
Yeah, let's talk about that,
because Joe,
I want to just say,
and we've been saying this on this show,
every time we see new
numbers, the economy continues to do
well in many respects.
The stock market is up.
Gas prices are down.
The inflation rate is at the lowest
that it's been in three years.
You joined me on State of the Union
back in July.
I asked
why the American people weren't giving
President Biden the credit
that maybe
he thinks he should have on the economy.
You said a lot of it is about messaging
and you added
that Biden just has to get out there
it is.
Now six months later,
the administration is still struggling
on this issue.
Why
Well, I think it's time to get out there.
We've had our holidays with the elect.
The campaigns are beginning now.
This is when people will pay attention.
And I think that the president, again,
I have always said to members,
people don't vote for you
because you deserve it.
But what you have done gives you
the legitimacy to say,
this is what I will do.
And the president has said
we have more work to be done.
And let's have a debate
on who's there for the American people
to save the Affordable Care Act,
to save the pensions
that Joe Biden enables to happen.
When people go talking to Trump,
labor guys
talking to Trump,
they have to remember
he refused to pass the pension bill
to support the pension bill.
So, again,
the elections have ramifications.
Let's talk about that.
Let's not talk about what happened
last July.
Let's talk about what's happening
now as we go forward.
I just got off a call with organizers
for the Affordable Care Act.
We are so excited
for what it means to our veterans
When we passed the packed act,
what it means for a
for all women,
when you see the Supreme Court
ruling against them and the Congress
not one Republican vote
to help women in that regard,
when when women are anti-jobs,
they are pro-democracy.
When we are talking about
good paying jobs,
we're talking about freedom for people
to live their lives.
I am very excited about what
Biden has done.
We were a part of that,
but more importantly, what he will do.
And that's the message
people want to hear.
Again, none of us deserves it.
All of us has to prove what we will do
as we go forward.
As you mentioned,
some of the statistics
that we also did pension reform
that that made a difference
in the lives of so many people
and so many people.
So I understand the difference.
A pack that 34 Republicans
and you feel comfortable
for in the House.
Forgive me but you feel confident that
the voters are going to start
to kind of digest
that and feel better
about the economy in a way
that they just don't feel now
and that that disconnect will be bridged
Well, we have to do that.
We do our inside
maneuvering to protect
present legislation and the rest.
But the outside mobilization
is the most important part of an election
to make sure people know.
President Lincoln,
as I've said on your show before,
he said
public sentiment is everything with it.
You can accomplish almost anything
without it, practically nothing.
And we have to make sure people know
we have to respect them.
We have to listen to them.
We have to build a community, continue
to build community with them.
I'm very excited about the credentials
the legitimacy,
the leverage
that Joe Biden has given to America's
working families.
And that's the message
that campaigns are campaigns
towards term. Yeah.
You have to go out there and fight.
Speaking of out there and fight.
Speaking of war,
I want to just ask you one question
about what
you as a member of Congress
have before you going forward.
And that is, among many other
things, the question of
aiding and funding Israel and its war.
Your colleague
Bernie Sanders,
is now urging Congress
not to pass
any additional funding for Israel while
Benjamin Netanyahu's
government is conducting the war in Gaza.
Do you think it's time
for new leadership in Israel?
Oh, well,
I thought it's time for new leadership
and for a long time.
So I but now post October 7th is.
That's not the issue.
The issue is,
is it in our national interest
to support Israel?
Yes, I think that that has been clear.
They are our ally in the region.
And we.
Yes, I think we should support that.
I think the president
has spoken eloquently to this point
with knowledge
and with strategic thinking about it.
I don't think that now who represent
let's not even go into him.
I don't like to talk
about those kinds of people
as I said about what his it.
But I do think that we have
to make sure the public understands
that we have and the president has in his
proposal for for the supplemental
millions of dollars to help the refugees
in Gaza,
millions millions of dollars
to help the refugees in Gaza.
The Republicans will
not bring up the bill.
They do not want to
support the
they have told me
we do not want to support the refugees.
And yet the president bears
the brunt of people saying in a cease
fire, this, that
and the other thing
I wish they'd say, free the hostages.
Free the hostages.
Let's find our common ground
to do inhumanity.
Give humanity
to how we have a two state solution
so that the Palestinian people can live
in freedom.
I'm glad
that you brought up the hostages
because there are still many hostages and
including Americans
that we should not forget about.
We're out of time, Madam Speaker.
But before I let you go,
I just want to mark today,
because it is January 4th, back in 2007.
We are putting up video right now of
you getting that gavel
for the very first time.
The first woman to serve as
speaker of the House
17 years ago,
now, 17 years ago.
And so actually
four times I've received the gavel.
It's pretty exciting.
Now, Excited
about our new leadership
in the House, Hakeem Jeffries, Kathryn
Aguilar, Ted Lieu, all of them.
They're so fabulous,
so representative of our community.
And when you do
when you make a commitment
and you do a job,
you want to make sure
that whoever comes next
has even more opportunity.
So we're very proud of them.