Impeachment Hearing not like C-SPAN

we got we got to sit down in the front
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row there were three empty seats are my
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sister and my friend and I we were all
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there and we sat there for four or five
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hours watching the debate and in the
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vote and I’m telling you it’s not like
it is on c-span
these fan is such a you know
two-dimensional flattens everything out
very strictly framed you don’t get the
peripheral vision on c-span one of the
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things I tell my crew and I if I if I’m
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allowed to when I’m invited to the film
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schools to talk to students I always
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tell them that you’re gonna find more
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truth in the peripheral hmm then in the
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in the spot-on because in the spot-on
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you’re getting the official story you’re
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getting me you know whatever it is they
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want you to report but what’s going on
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over here what’s going on around you if
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you have a sense of trying to pay
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attention to that you’ll find these
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things that that you’ll never see in a
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documentary or in a movie or on the
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nightly news and so what I saw from that
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front row of the gallery last Wednesday
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was both a bit exhilarating and
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frightening exhilarating in the sense
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that you could see that on the
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Democratic side that they many of them
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had found the courage of their
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convictions had found their their soul
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their guts to stand up for this even
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though the polls show it’s kind of a
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50/50 in the country on impeachment a
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little more in favor of it but
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nonetheless a risky proposition
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especially for a number of Democrats in
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swing districts the fact that they would
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take that stand in such a profound way
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electoral states remember Hillary only
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lost Michigan by two votes per precinct
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that’s it and it’s not because lunch
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bucket Joe stayed home you know or voted
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for Trump it’s it’s because the the when
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they talk about the working-class Amy I
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just accessorize me crazy oh you know
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Trump won all these working-class votes
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in Michigan in Pennsylvania no what
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happened was is that the Democratic
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Party didn’t stand up in the way that
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they should have for what the youth
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wanted for what people of color needed
and and the the there are 90,000 people
in Michigan almost 90,000 who went to
the polls mostly Democrats and very
large numbers of them in Detroit Flint
Pontiac Saginaw all these are all black
cities majority black they stood in line
in the cold for two to three hours to
vote they went in there and they voted
for state Rep state Senate County
Commission we don’t have dogcatcher we
have drain commissioner the person in
charge of the sewage that’s the lowest
name on the ballot
they stood there they voted for the
Democrats all down ballot and left the
top box blank 19th only lost Michigan by
10 11 thousand votes 90,000
wanted to send a message to the
Democratic Party you forgot us a long
time ago out here and we will not put up
with us anymore we’re not gonna vote for
Trump but we’re not gonna we’re not
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going to tolerate you sending us another
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Republican White Democrat if we go that
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route if we go that route it’s
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guaranteed we will lose the electoral
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college we will win when we put somebody
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on that ballot that excites the base
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women people of color young people when
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they wake up that morning they feel the
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way that many of us many of you watching
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felt the morning that you were gonna in
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2008 and you were gonna get to go and
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vote for Barack Obama and you couldn’t