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US POLITICS REP. JASMINE CROCKETT CBS TEXAS: Dallas Congresswoman Crockett's new high profile assignment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBXO-pk-Zi4' target = _blank > PLAY YOUTUBE VIDEO Original article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBXO-pk-Zi4 Peter Burgess COMMENTARY Peter Burgess
Dallas Congresswoman Crockett's new high profile assignment CBS TEXAS Aug 30, 2024 418K subscribers ... 400,112 views ... 16K likes Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett, D-Dallas, is a new National Co-Chair for Vice President Kamala Harris and Governor Tim Walz's campaign. People 4 people Jasmine Crockett American attorney and politician (born 1981) Donald Trump President of the United States from 2017 to 2021 Joe Biden President of the United States since 2021 Kamala Harris Vice President of the United States since 2021 Transcript 0:08 you please welcome Texas representative Jasmine [Applause] Crockett um it was probably the scariest thing I've ever done um you know I usually don't get nervous and I've spoken in front of some really large crowds um but this was a little different it was different for a number of reasons one of the reasons being that um this is this has never been done they've never put a freshman black woman prime time at DNC um and so it was it was a gamble for some folk and I wanted them to win on the gamble um in addition to that I'm always thinking about what happens after me and I didn't want to foreclose on other opportunities for young kind of new voices to be heard on the stage so 1:01 um it was pretty intimidating and then the the final thing that was a bit intimidating is that I don't do teleprompters so um having to speak from a teleprompter was a little different um but I was very happy to have it done and so this as you know the the the poles are very tight right now they've grown tighter yeah and so I'm wondering what do you think is going to be the key that's going to make the difference between you know the winner and the loser so interestes interestingly enough one of the conversations that's come up is How Deep The Bench is for the Democrats as it relates to surrogates you know for the most part um Maga is the party of trump and they only really get excited about Trump and so Trump physically has to show up and engage them even his own vice presidential candidate is not doing very well with kind of pulling in a crowd but when it comes to the Democrats um they can deploy a bunch of us I have been 2:00 traveling the country I was traveling the country so much for President Biden and now I'm traveling the country for vice president comma Harris and we can talk to people so it doesn't always have to be the principles I think that that's going to be very helpful that means that we can actually stretch ourselves a lot further I think also it will be really good for a debate to happen if it does happen to kind of highlight number one that she really does have a full grasp on the issues and I think the natural prosecutor in her is going to call out Trump when he fails to answer questions about what he's going to do for the middle class um how he's going to help the economy how he's going to help with food prices how he's going to help with housing I think she is going to say Mr Trump that wasn't the question maybe you didn't understand let me help you they're looking for an answer um and I think that it will demonstrate really who the adults in the room is and there's no question about it that it's 3:02 kamla Harris and where are you going and you know where do you continue to see yourself going or are you focusing on certain States on behalf of the Harris walls ticket they send me everywhere um I ended up being the top requested surrogate uh when Biden was at the top of the ticket I have no idea where I am now but they really um struggle with the number of requests that they get from me so um the day after the convention they sent me to Michigan so I campaigned in about four different cities in Michigan um I've been to Philly probably about five or six times uh the elected officials there keep kidding with me and asking me when I'm going to get a place there um I have to do three cities in one day next month in North Carolina which North Carolina had been asking for me for a while um I have been to Phoenix in fact um the last city that I went to was on that Friday with the second gentleman um right before the president announced that he was going to actually withdraw his candidacy so I've been to 4:06 Phoenix a couple of times they've tried to get me to uh Nevada a number of times um and so I'm actually going to LA this weekend and that is on the fundraising side of things for them and then most likely I'll end up campaigning in Nevada um I know that they want me in Wisconsin we've had a number of requests for me to go there as well so all the battle so I yes absolutely and so let me ask you uh as far as um the record uh inflation we saw in 2022 yeah what is the answer that Democrats have for that and is there any way to lower the prices inflation has gone down but prices haven't and what and and the polls have shown that voters trust Trump more than they do the vice president so how do you turn that around yeah so it's tough right because the Democrats are in control and so regardless as to whether or not we caused it or didn't cause it we're the 5:05 ones that are in control um so I think that it's more so just about educating people right I'm glad that you pointed out that inflation is actually down inflation was something that we struggled with globally this was not something that was just limited to the United States which that does happen sometimes depending on who's in power what we're seeing though is a lot of price gouging and I think that this Administration has done a good job of explaining that we will not tolerate price gouging even when you look at the inflation reduction Act and the fact that there was a cap on the cost of insulin a lot of people are seeing relief but obviously that's only if you have diabetes and need insulin you're on Medicare and if you're on Medicare but here's the interesting part that it reveals is that this Administration will go toe-to-toe with those that are just literally price gouging we know that insulin only cost about 10 cent or so to actually create but people were getting charged thousands of dollars we're seeing the same thing when it comes to things like food but if I'm going to be honest one of the other issues that we 6:05 have is that we have made um migrants The Boogeyman and the reality is that when I go into a room I ask people how many of you are raising your kids to go and work on farms I usually don't get any hands to be raised well the reality is that food doesn't just appear on your table um it's a matter if somebody has to actually go and work the farm and so since we have been demonizing migrants and acting as if all of them are criminals and all of them are coming to hurt us instead of actually trying to sh up our immigration system so that those people that want to come over they actually come over and they work the farms and honestly when I talk to Farmers they tell us listen we are in a crisis like we need to hire more people same thing with housing we know a lot of times um our migrant commun Community comes in and they help out when it comes to building our homes well the reality is that if you have less people that are coming in to do those jobs then the cost of the labor that you do have goes up 7:05 and so we really need to be smart about how we're communicating that immigration actually helps us we are a country of immigrants and I tell people all the time if you don't believe me just go look at Japan Google Japan and immigration and you'll see the harm that was done to them when they decided that they were just going to keep people out so um I think that we've got to turn the page on how we talk about immigration and start to connect the dots for people that's something that probably I and my colleagues will end up doing more of because it's not something you can do on a sound bite therefore there usually isn't a conversation about immigration and the the complexities to it and how it benefits us even when we start talking about Social Security and Medicaid and Medicare you know we pay into that when we get our paycheck then there's money that goes to that and people keep saying especially the Republicans they're like we can't afford 8:00 Social Security so they really want to cut it out the reality is that if we do immigration right then we have people that are working they're working legally they're paying into these systems but because they're not citizens they don't end up drawing down on it so it also helps us in that way um but overall I think looking at the fact that we were able to reduce inflation and telling people that it didn't happen overnight the inflation reduction Act was something that happened in the first two years of their Administration and asking people to trust us and then also with her pointing out the fact that she wants to offer $25,000 um to assist those that are trying to move into homes to defay the cost of home ownership right now which there's a lot of reasons that home ownership is high from the interest rates which we don't control that's something that the FED independently controls to the fact that literally uh things that I talked about is such as workers is an issue you mentioned price gouging and and uh her policy came under 9:02 ridicule even by some of the the large newspapers um and so they they they ridiculed it they they didn't think it was really much of a policy and so I mean when you look at the grocery store chains for example their profit margins are reportedly 1 or 2% doesn't seem like they're bringing money hand over fist um so so how do you deal with that yeah again you know there's for me there's layers to what's going on number one your food doesn't go straight to the grocery store it has to be grown somewhere um and so we've got to make sure that we are being smart about how this gets done again I sit on the ad committee um and so even when we look at the input cost which is something that I talked to my Farmers about so gouging doesn't necessarily just mean the grocery store if the input cost for our Farmers goes up then the farmers have to charge more so there's definitely so many layers to this and we've got to keep whoever within the chain is gouging 10:05 we've got to stop them from gouging um so that's one of the things and we have some levers that can be pulled because when we look at Federal programs right such as snap um then we can say we will only pay x amount of dollars for this or that um that does the same thing that we've seen happen with um insulin right because again it's only a select group but because it's a a large enough group we were able to negotiate that cost well guess what you start to set the cost for the market because what we saw is insulin prices um even in Private Industry they fell because they wanted to be competitive um let me ask you about you mentioned border security immigration Etc again the polls show that people trust Trump more than they do the vice president when it comes to border security and the record numbers of people crossing the border during the 11:04 Biden Harris Administration so why should voters trust kamla Harris over Trump yeah so a couple of things about this number one um I applaud President Biden because President Biden is a true legislator um this is someone who came up in the US Senate with that being said he believes in actually putting forth actual policy actual laws and so he worked in a bipartisan way to make sure that he could get a bipartisan bill um I can't say that I was in love with all parts of the bill if I'm being perfectly honest but nevertheless he worked in a bipartisan way it was a very conservative bill um and he was willing to sign it into law it was Trump that killed it now here's the deal um the president then once Trump killed it which it took a long time to negotiate this bill in a bipartisan way and to get it to a place in which it could pass both Chambers um you know once Trump killed it he decided to use some of his 12:04 executive power the thing with executive power is that it's not law right like this isn't something that is going to last um and be permanent throughout the years this is what he's used his pin for in a moment and he definitely prefers to get things done by passing laws than just doing things with an executive order but the reality is that the numbers are lower than what the border crossing numbers are lower now than they were when Trump left office so he has been effective in what he did but more importantly what people need to understand about kamla Harris is that as attorney general and as a prosecutor on um the district attorney level this is someone who understands cartels she understands the bad guys she's prosecuted the bad guys she knows how they work and so with her understanding the inner workings I think that she will be um uniquely qualified to handle 13:00 border security because people can flate the two right we we're having a migrant crisis yes but what is the crisis we've got a couple of things that are going on we've got folk that are in destabilized communities back home for instance we know that we saw the Haitians that tried to cross that was towards the beginning of the um Biden Harris Administration what happened in Haiti there was a destabilization of their government there was an execution of their president by gangs right and so there were people that were fleeing not because they were trying to hurt us in the United States but because they literally did not know if they could survive and I think in recent times we've seen some of the images where it's been covered about what's happened in Haiti the reality is that America has to do its part some people may disagree with it but we are big brother and one of the things that we do is we make investments into other countries and our dollars go a long way we make investments so that we can hopefully stabilize some of those younger 14:02 democracies number one which allows them to build out their middle class we do smart trade deals which means that they've got money coming in but that also keeps us from being overrun so that's part of immigration and part of the migrant crisis and then you have um The Gangs you have the cartels and what they're doing is they are trying to overload us so that they can sneak all of their bad things in whether it's drugs or whether it's usually the guns are actually coming from us to be perfectly honest we actually cuz we do too much on guns so we actually send more guns out than they actually send in but definitely the drugs they end up coming across well when you overload the border and you know I found this out on the oversight committee where I sit is that they spread misinformation and disinformation so that people will start to flood our borders um but understanding how they act we know or I believe believe that KLA Harris is best 15:00 prepared to know this is what the bad guys will do and these are the people that are simply seeking refuge and the migrant crisis is a combination of the two border security doesn't necessarily um coincide with people that are seeking refuge and trying to seek a better life border security deals with the bad guys that's going to be our cartels I hear what you're saying as far as um you know the the the variety of factors at work here but the Republicans point out uh that this has been going on this started back in 2021 as soon as President Biden and vice president Harris entered office and the numbers exploded and it only took until this year for President Biden to put in this executive order for the numbers to go down why did it take so long again I think that it took so long because he is a real lawmaker this is 16:00 somebody that wanted something set in stone so that we can have something that we can rely upon something that we know is going to work not just for the time that he is there but for the Long Haul and it's the difference in um using a Band-Aid versus using an actual Stitch he wanted to Stitch things up um and in essence he had to do a Band-Aid and the Band-Aid is stopping the bleeding but it ain't going to fix it I mean you really need to be stitched up and so you know another thing that will be that is left out of the conversation is co and where we were with Co right because Co came in in 2020 I want to say it was March of 2020 when um really we kind of finally acknowledged that Co was happening and so was it was on Trump's way out well also the fact that the United States finally had an Administration that was leading the way and making sure that people could live that was another thing that exag masturbated the numbers that people kind of leave out in 2021 because we were the 17:04 ones that ended up with the best and first vaccines that we could actually get out not every country was doing that and again the United States is usually the one that leads on this in fact as I've traveled recently I was in Africa and one of the things that we discussed was how much the United States helped in making sure that the covid vaccine got out over there so that's another thing that people aren't really talking about and as people talk about how businesses were shuttering here everything that happened in the United States happened in the rest of the world the difference is it wasn't as bad in the United States and people literally thought it was the end of the world in the United States it was even worse in other countries so again um we tend to be the land of opportunity and so it is where people were seeking really to to hopefully save their lives that's usually what is happening the last part that I'll add is recently I want to say just this week 18:02 there are conversations about um potential strain relationship with Mexico um and so it it is important that people understand that we've got to keep all these relationships um as in check as possible and so with you know a change in the way that Mexico is kind of going about their courts and concerns about what they may do for their democracy um you know people have to understand that immigration is a combination of so many things it's Democratic principles it's economics and it's also security um we tend to balance a lot and unfortunately we can't do it all in a Tik Tock um and so with us not being able to communicate in that way you know one of the things that our office does is we're very aggressive about communicating and I'm trying to come up with more creative ways to start taking some of these very complex issues 19:01 and making them more sound like so that people can take in just 30 second a minute kind of sound bites and start to better fully understand kind of what's going on let me ask you about reproductive Freedom obviously Reproductive Rights abortion rights is a big issue for Democrats and I'm wondering why do you think it's going to be different this year uh as opposed to 2022 which was you know the same year that roie wave was overturned at least in Texas yeah so I will say that reproductive access is a big issue for all people sure um not just Democrats because when we look at the numbers it's over 70% of the country believes that there should be some sort of abortion access the numbers start to break off about when and how and you know whatever but it is over 70% and we've seen in States like I went to Ohio when they had abortion on the ballot um to help campaign on that issue it pass in Ohio a 20:03 state that most people aren't talking about as being a Battleground Republicans supported it it passed in Kansas yet another state um that is not considered to be blue so I think that the reason that Republicans decided to change their platform after 40 years which for 40 years in their platform it said that they would seek a National Abortion manage because they realize they are not on the side of History um so I I think in 2022 we actually saw great games we were supposed to have this red wave and we were supposed to just get you know beat out of the house it didn't happen that way and we're talking about in a year where we went through redistricting um and with the new lines we ended up with some very creative Jerry mandering um in in a number of Southern States and we still ended up with the Republicans only having maybe a five or six seat majority when we walked in um I think that we 21:01 will take the house I think that America has had enough of the clown show known as the Republican caucus that have has led the house from kicking out the first speaker in the history of this country to threatening to kick out their second speaker to um you know having our credit rating downgraded because um they waited so long before they finally agreed to do something like raise the debt limit when we know $8 trillion of the debt that we needed to raise the limit for was ascertained under Trump's 4-year Administration more than any other president has ever accumulated in one four-year term which is one of the reasons that I think that um once they are on that debate stage that KLA Harris will highlight that while you may perceive him to be better on the economy he is not um he is not Fally responsible he's run our debt up in a way that it's never been run up um and frankly the Trump tax cuts which are basically 22:03 allowing for people that make a lot more money than me and you um for them to be able to start paying their fair share you know to have an effective rate that is I want to say eight% you may have to fact check me all I know is it's way less than mine um is is wrong and those Trump tax cuts they expire in 2025 and so we have the ability to do what needs to be done for all people in this country if we just decide that we will stop making the people that are struggling at the bottom be the losers and make the people that are continuously making money off of the people at the Bottom's backs um whether it's literally their labor or whether it's them giving their money to make sure that they can pay for cars and pay for food and pay for housing and actually give them a little bit of a break and the people at the top guess what they'll see better profits anyway they'll still make more money because if 23:01 the people that they're making money off of are doing better then that means that they're going to do better just to follow up real two two things real quick so you said that you believe Democrats are going to take the house I do uh what about the Senate I'm nervous about the Senate um you we we barely had a majority um I say barely because we had Senator mansion that I don't I think he switched over and became an independent um and then Republicans going to take that seat Republicans will absolutely have that seat um and then I think uh Cinema seat I think that R gyo is going to do well because the Republicans they just love to do the same thing over and over and over and expect a different result listen Carrie Lake ran Statewide this last time uh she ran for governor she's a terrible candidate she lost um polling doesn't have her do it doesn't look like she's doing very well now um and she tends to tick off some of the Republicans uh she's told the mccan 24:00 Republicans she doesn't need them she probably does um and so I think that we'll take that seat but you know here's the deal if we lose West Virginia and if we hold everything else that puts us in a spot where we are at 50 so we need to win the White House to get to that 51 um I don't really see an opportunity to pick up any new seats um this cycle unless we um actually show up to the polls in Texas and we take Texas there's an argument that Florida may be in play I don't know that I really believe that but there's a couple of things going on in Florida number one they have repo on the ballot they also have marijuana on the ballot something that I wish we could do in Texas is actually do petitions and do our own ballot measures cuz then I'm sure a lot of these repressive um policies that the Republicans are pushing would never go through but nevertheless they were allowed to do petitions in Florida and uh what they decided to do though is raise the threshold they may regret that so they raised the threshold to 60% well 25:04 I think that that means that it's requiring an over performance so if you want to get to Repro access if you want to get to marijuana access then you've got to get to 60% which hopefully means that at least we can get to 50% um for that senate seat so there is a question about whether or not um he can hold on to it and supposedly uh polls are tightening um even in the presidential in Florida I personally stopped believing in Florida since the hanging Chads but you never know um Debbie Marcal sko may be able to to pull it out and Colin may be able to pull it out the most recent polls had him two points behind I just think that Texans especially Texas Democrats kind of just get deflated a lot of times and don't believe in themselves even though we see our attorney general purging the roles um and and you know they're doing it in an aggressive way and it just so happens to be during the presidential this is 26:04 after they decided to you know introduce these voter suppression laws I mean they're telling us that they are afraid of our power yet for whatever reason um so many Texans sit back and they seeed their power and they just give it up and just on the abortion issue do you see it having a impact here in Texas this cycle I don't know that I see it being a motiv this cycle because again I think if we could put it on the ballot absolutely and that's one reason we can't if they would put it on the ballot they'd be wiped out because you're seeing you know for the longest there was this Boogyman about who was getting abortions right like they wanted to make it as if it was some promiscuous you know un uh American um unchristian person that was who saw sought abortions it wasn't little girls that are raped it wasn't women that 27:02 already have children and um simply are facing complications and actually want this child it wasn't your suburban white moms that's not who they made the face of abortion to be and now that reality is being put out front I think that it is educating people about abortion you know I've talked to women before that have said I was one of those pro-life people until I had my own complications and did not realize what that meant for me didn't realize that it meant that it may foreclose on my ability to have a child in the future didn't realize that it meant that I may die they didn't realize it and you know um Republicans play games and it's really unfortunate because kind of like what we saw in the midst of covid-19 we have experts we have people that have gone to school that have studied the medicine that see this day in and day out they know what they're doing instead we have ignorant people some of them have never gotten a college degree let alone 28:05 a medical degree and they are making decisions that really should be left to medical professionals the fact that our Supreme Court for whatever reason in my opinion decided to trample on our constitutional right to privacy is a travesty to me and the fact that Texas was one of those states that was leading the way to um criminalize women that are simply seeking Health Care is insane knowing that roie Wade is a Dallas case knowing that Henry Wade was the one that was going after women um that were seeking abortions over 50 years ago and somehow a supreme court over 50 years ago uh was more intuitive and more enlightened than this court this court is an example of where the Republicans want to take us they want to take us back to a preow world 29:03 and that's what they've done so far and so you know I don't think that the future looks really bright when we are ignoring those that want to talk to us about climate you know I have to talk to my Farmers about climate we know that we've seen wildfires we've seen freezes we've seen droughts we've seen it all right but like the Republicans don't want to be led by experts at all I'm not saying this because I'm an expert in science I listen to The Experts whether it's climate whether it's healthare um or or otherwise and it's very frustrating that we can't just agree that science is an absolute and we should listen to experts and then we should be guided in our policy based upon what they tell us congresswoman Jasmine Crockett of Dallas thank you so much thanks Jack we appreciate it good to see you good to see you

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