good evening and welcome to the van jones show. we have another great show for you tonight. we're going to hear from 10 time nba all-star, three-time olympic gold medalist. the great carmelo anthony. i love this guy. he's making a huge difference in real people's lives off the court. we've been hearing about the

need for a new type of candidate to help the democrats win their elections in the fall. i've got four fresh faces on this show tonight. they want to change the country, the party, i want to get a chance to talk to them. first, i want to talk to you. >> this summer has turned out to be shocking, even by the standards of the trump era, okay? just this week we had a cnn reporter who was barred from a white house event for the crime of doing her job and asking some tough questions of the president. also, you had trump threatening to yank away the security clearances from former top intelligence officials just out of smit, they didn't do anything wrong. and we got to hear recordings of trump two months before being elected president of the united states, talking about how to pay off a playboy model. and before that we had the horror in helsinki, where the president of the united states played lap dog to vladimir

putin. i don't know how this meeting even happened. there was no agenda, how do you have a superpower summit and there's no agenda. now you got american intelligence officials having to spy on the russians to find out what america's president told putin in a secret meeting. this stuff is so crazy, it wouldn't fly even as a plot line on "scandal" or "house of cards." that's where we are. don't forget on a sad note, the children who got ripped away from their parents at the border, many of them are still suffering, after all, you said to yourself, how can anybody support this guy. well, take a listen. >> i think as the leader of the free world, he's shown strength, and i think it's about time we stop this witch trial about russia and get on to the major issues. >> he's put people back to work. record high employment for the whole country. >> the money's -- the economy's

good, the money seems to be flowing pretty well. >> i think people are pretty happy with that. >> now, listen, these are all fair points. the economy is growing at its fastest pace in 2014, the dow is up, 40%. you have to give trump some credit, these valid points miss a bigger point. in exchange for tax cuts, economic growth, some right wing judges, republicans are now in danger of losing their core conservative principles and even their moral principles. republicans hated deficits under obama, remember the tea party? trump's nearly trillion dollar deficit, no problem, all good. the conservatives hated obama, they called it socialism. they're fine with trump doing a $12 billion bailout for farmers. please remember the only aren't

farmers needed a bailout is because they started a trade war. trump's solution to the problem he created it moving american farmers from wealth to welfare. they're suddenly very quiet when it comes to flat out lies, adultery and bowing down to foreign enemies like putin. what is going on here here's the answer. too many republicans have decided to let the good stuff blind them and silence them on the bad stuff, and that's dangerous, it's dangerous for conservatism and america. no patriot should let themselves be seduced by short term promises of gain if it's going to cause long term decline for america. that's the danger we're in. meanwhile, the democrats are making the opposite mistake they let all the bad stuff blind

them to any good stuff take a listen to the liberals. >> he seems like a bigot and a massagenist. i haven't heard much come from lips that i admired or made me think he's a decent human being. >> the economy is doing good on trump, we're still in the after glow of the obama years. >> i don't care what positive short term gains we have, he sews a seed and lays a foundation of corruption and evil. >> is there anything he could do that would change your mind? >> resign. >> now, look, both some good points there, not mad. that kind of talk might motivate the base voters for am, sure. in many districts, don't forget the base voters who like that stuff are not enough to win a midterm election. implying nothing good is happening in the trump era could make it harder for democrats to pull the voter as way. i'm hoping my first guest can

shed some light on this he knows a lot about both sides. he's a lifelong democrat who voted for donald trump. he's running for congress in west virginia. this guy knows a bunch. welcome to the van jones show richard ojetta. >> look, you're a desk rated veteran, i want to honor your service and honor you for choosing to run for office. why you vote for trump? >> i will tell you, van for me, it was looking out my window, and looking at the people i know and i love. i live in the coal fields. everybody that lives in the coal fields, that's the only opportunities they have. don't hate the coal minor for going after the only job that will allow you to feed your

family. >> that's right, you know. and other than that, have you to have three jobs and it's part time work and low benefits and things like that, i was looking at people that i grew up with, people that were part of my family, people that i loved, and they were struggling and hillary clinton come down there and she was talking about job training. the training she was talking about were of jobs that do not exist in west virginia. coal mining is a job where you can start making $90,000 a year. you want to tell a person that makes that that can feed their family to now go ahead and settle for moving out of state or to take a job making minimum wage. that's not going to do it. donald trump said he was going to get the coal miners back to work. >> how do you evaluate him now.

are you proud of that work? >>. >> let me state that i do not want him to fail. he's the president of the united states of america, and anybody who wants the president to fail wants the aircraft we are flying on to crash. i want him to listen to his people that he surrounds himself with. successful leaders surround themselves with intelligent people. in terms of the coal in west virginia, the coal trucks are moving, the train cars are moving and they're full of coal. every coal miner is working. in that case i have to give him a thumbs up. there's a lot of things i'm not happy about, i'm not happy he's not listening to the people he's surrounding himself with. >> listen. >> i'm listening to you talk, and it seems to me people are in pain. they voted for donald trump.

why should they vote for you. if everything is going so well now, why are you running for office? >> i relate to the people. i come home from the military, the reason i got into politics, i spent a lot of time away from my wife and kids. i found out i have kids in my backyard that have it worse than the children i saw in iraq and afghanistan. the village will raise the child. but here mom and dad's addicted to drugs and grandma and grandpa are on social security and trying to raise a grandchild, they're already cutting their meds in half. >> you have mexican heritage. >> yes, i do. >> your grandfather came here undocumented, made a good life for yourself. you voted for a guy who hasn't said a good thing about a mexican that i heard. why was that not a barrier for y you. >> once again for me it was about the people that -- >> i understand that. when i think about donald trump, i can't help but mainly relate

to him as someone who seems hostile to muslims and immigrants and black football players. how did that land in your heart when you heard that rhetoric when you were -- even today. how do you and folks in west virginia feel about building the wall and that kind of rhetoric. >> first of, the wall is not high on my priority list, it's into the going to put people in west virginia to work. people want to feed their families where i come from. we need to realize a lot of people look at the united states of america. that's a beacon of hope for them. we need to give people the ability to be placed on a path toward citizenship that doesn't take 20 years. there's a lot of things out there that i don't agree with. we can do better. >> in your state you got the governor who used to be a democrat, he jumped to be a

republican. joe manchin, he's on a bicycle trying to get away from the democrats a lot of the time. what is the advantage for you running as a democrat? >> i'm a real democrat many i believe if the democratic party gets back to what the democratic party is, we'll be fine. taking care of the sick, the elderly, and finding those in poverty to elevate them with a hand up not a hand out. that's what the democratic party is supposed to be, and we've gone away from that. >> you were viciously and physically attacked and assaulted almost beaten to death because you're out there talking the way you're talking. >> help me understand how we got this divided and what can you do to bring us back together when we can't have somebody like yourself speak the way you're

speaking without possibly being killed? >> a lot of times it's old politics. it's the way politics are ran across this country. i happen to start saying the things that need to be said and it ruffled the feathers of the people who didn't want to be ruffled. they saw this as an opportunity to try to scare me to get out of politics or take me out. >> i might have considered a different job if i ended up in your situation many. >> i spent 24 years in the united states army. i have tattoos on my back of soldiers that didn't come home. they didn't die for this. i lived in a bubble, i thought every time we went overseas and fought for this country. we were doing it because we were trying to give people a swliver of the greatness we have here in the united states of america. i realize that my brothers did not have their hopes and dreams bleed out on a battlefield so we could have corrupt politicians

that have their hands in the cookie jar blatantly and nobody can do anything about it. i can't tolerate that i got children in my backyard that are struggling, when we're supposed to be great. i can't do it. >> i wish more people had your passion. we got a lot more to talk about with richard, his take on how to help teachers. and how to fight the opiod epidemic in west virginia, when we get back. (vo) why are subaru outback owners always smiling? because they've chosen the industry leader. subaru outback holds its value better than any other vehicle in its class, according to alg. better than rav4. better than grand cherokee. better than edge. make every adventure a happy one with subaru outback. get 0% apr financing on the 2018 subaru outback.

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and you're running as a democrat. i want to get deeper into the reason you ran and that you're running? this opiod epidemic that is killing so many people, how do you evaluate the trump response and what would you do to make it better? >> i think that he has definitely been lacking in that. right now i have 75 beds to address the opiod epidemic. yet my area, my people were targeted by big pharma. they threw their oxycodone on west virginia like tic tacs. i have one person on my team that both parents have died because of the opiod epidemic. i have another person on my team that found his brother dead due to an overdose. it's destroyed and ripped us apart. >> what can be done about it that is not being done right

now. >> we need to check big pharma. we lost more lives in the united states of america than all of the vote flax war. big pharma goes into the capi l capitols and greases legislators products. >> you won't take their money? >> let me tell you something. they will never be allowed in my office. >> you can -- i applaud that. we don't have people who do their party, that are willing to stand up to money. the fact that you're willing to do so. what about -- some people say medical marijuana would do a better job -- what do people say in west virginia about medical marijuana? >> my bill is what made west virginia the 29th state to become legal for medical cannabis. that's a nonaddictive form of pain management. states that accepted medical cannabis have seen a decrease in

opiod apost. it can help with parkinson's, ptsd. 24 soldiers are committing suicide every day. it's my duty to reduce that to 0. >> you mentioned being a vete n veteran, how do you evaluate trump as commander in chief, especially this whole situation with russia and helsinki. >> successful leaders surround themselves with intelligent people. he has two brilliant military minds. he needs to listen to them. >> i notice -- you seem a little hesitant to be directly critical of donald trump. is that because you have a lot of love for him in your heart? you're concerned that your constituents care about it 1234. >> most democrats come out boom boom on trump. you're a little less boom boom. >> from where i live, he's done pretty good for southern west

virginia. my people are working, and that's my family, i have to give him a thumbs up on that, there's a lot of things i'm not happy with. if donald trump has a good idea i will support it wholeheartedly, if he doesn't i won't. that's the way i am with anybody. >> i share your passion to make sure the coal minors are treated right and well. you also have a climate crisis. and the whole global warming situation. how do you deal with that issue? >> i believe global warming exists. when it comes -- you know, in terms of coal mining, what i say is that the most important thing that ever comes out of a coal mine needs to be the coal minor, i expect for you to protect my water and my air, as long as you can do that, we can find that balance. we still need coal. make no mistake about it, this country suffers from infrastructure issues. we have a military mite that is crumbling right now, if we want to fix those, we want steel.

and we want the best steel to be fix those issues. and the best steel comes from coal and that comes from my mountains. >> there is a way for us to work together. i'm glad you recognize that. >> you were out there before a lot of other people helping these teachers, who were suffering from budget cuts, not enough supplies. this movement spread like wildfire. i've never seen so many teachers in red states standing up for themselves. i want to play a clip of you -- >> it's time for us to start looking past the faces of the people that are here that are fighting for nothing more than profits for the people that aren't even from our states that are making millions and billions that don't care about us. and start looking at those faces in the gallery.

>> do you think the fire and the passion that you saw when you were out there leading those movements is going to translate to the ballot box? it's a different thing to march and hoot and holler than to go and vote. >> the 55 strong will remember in november. >> that sounds -- that's a mike drop. thank you for being here. i want you -- good luck on your race, it's a tossup now. coming up, we have the 10-time nba all-star, carmelo anthony. he's making big moves on the court and off the court. we'll talk with him when we get back. connected. or keep tabs on them. he skipped orientation for the beach? he takes after me. join t-mobile, buy an iphone 8, get an iphone 8 on us.

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if you've been following the sports headlines this week, you've been hearing a lot about carmelo anthony. he's a three-time gold medalist. 10-time nba all-star, a scoring champion, but it's his major efforts off the court that to me are even more impressive than anything he's doing on the court. you may not know this, carmelo has been leading a philanthropic effort to provide hurricane relief in puerto rico, to aid the people dealing with the water crisis in flint, michigan.

his commitment to charitable work started with the vow he took as a young guy. take a look. >> first of all, welcome to the van jones show, obviously, a massive hero on court with all the accolades and whatever, i didn't realize, though, how much heroic stuff you're doing off the court. you are putting puerto rico on your shoulders, baltimore on your shoulders, doing stuff in south africa. before we get into all that, why are you doing this? why are you using your platform in a way that you are? >> i think understanding what my platform is and what i'm capable of doing. and how strong of a voice i have, once i realize that, the rest of it was easy for me, was just going and doing it. you know, i felt like i had a vow to do it. >> you talk about this vow. how old were you when you made this vow? >> the vow was to -- like my

crew. it was like, when i make it, this is what we're doing, we're giving back. it was more so to them, being that they're still there, i always feel obligated. >> i got some news for you, though. everybody says that, everybody says -- i know you thought you were special everybody says it, nobody does it. >> when you're from there, it's easy. you're a product of that environment, you know what's going on, you know the struggle, and the cry, the cry out for help and those people, if you're not from there, then it's easy to say you're going to do it and shy away from it. >> the thing i think for me, i didn't realize the depth of your commitment until you walked out on stage that time at the espys. and it was like you and lebron and dwyane wade this is like the titans coming out. what are they talking about? >> why did you do that? that's not -- never been done before, never been done since.

it was an iconic moment. what was your thought process to say, we're all going to walk out here and take this stand for justice. >> where we was at at the time, and we still there, it's like, you had all the athletes in one place at one time. so that was a perfect place to do that, to send that message, deliver that message. and almost a call for hip, it speer headed something, not just with athletes but with everything. >> a lot of athletes back in the '90s, they really stads out of politics. '60s they were political, 70s, 80s, 90s, not so much political. why do you think so many athletes, not just yourself, why are athletes stepping to the forefront in a different way? >> i think the game has changed as far as the business of the game, the focus of the game. i think one good thing we realize as basketball players, we are the league. there's no league without the players. we support the owners, they support us, most importantly,

our commissioner. adam silver does a great job of supporting our causes, he would never try to interrupt, he would try to team up with us. he gives us a -- you know, that freedom of speech to go out there. >> at the end of the day he understands that we are those people, and some way, somehow we are affected by it too. >> you're going to be a part of this documentary series on trayvon martin, rest in power, the rock nation pull together. >> trayvon became the face of our community. we had to go to war for him. >> why is that an important thing for you to be a part of. why is that issue so important to you? >> we all know what happened to trayvon martin, to even speak on that is touching, it's hurtful. but at the end of the day it was almost a sacrifice. i had an opportunity to meet the family. you know, so i know the mom, i know the -- father and i know the hurt that they was going through at that time.

i met with them right after. the tragedy, so to see where they were at at that point in time, to see where they're at right now, to see how society gathers around them, rallying around them, uplifting them, kind of -- they are the voice for that. i mean, other families, you know, who have been through the same situation. they're to be the backbone and be their strength as well. >> do you feel like we're making progress from those trayvon martin days? are we still there? do you see much improvement yet? >> not at all. >> it's actually gotten worse. now we're seeing it live on our fingertips, so we feel we have to do something. and i think that's the upoar. >> is that why you sent -- i think you have 4500 kids go to the march for our lives. you're trying to help the next generation find their voice? >> yeah, at the end of the day, i know how powerful the youth voice is, now is it the time where we're going to start hearing more and more voices

from the youth. they understand how powerful they are now. and they can move and shake, they can make things happen. a lot of people are tired of hearing the adults talk, when you hear the kids speak, you hear the youth speak, it's a little more touching, and people feel obligated to get something done. >> when you were growing up, did you see gun violence, that kind of stuff, was the neighborhood that tough? or is that something that's gotten worse? >> i would like to talk about it, it's easy, but neighborhood was called the pharmacy for a reason. they made a tv show about my neighborhood, the wire. a lot of those teams before tv, a lot of those things were real. just the drugs, the prostitution, the fighting, the killing, the police brutality, the school system, and the prison system, i've been a part of all of that growing up, so i know what that feeling is like,

and it almost -- you almost become immune to that when you was growing up, now that i'm able to step back and see exactly what i was going through, dealing with, i feel like i have to do something out there. >> i want to walk-through some of the stuff you're doing, i think a lot of people that are watching the news, they feel completely helpless. talk about this tools for teachers, why are you trying to give teachers better tools and technology, why are teachers in your heart? >> i mean, let's face it, it's -- teachers get treated like -- we all know what the teachers get treated like, the education system, the school system turns their back on the teachers, when you go around and actually talk to these teachers and listen to their stories about their relationship with the kids, as far as having to give kids utensils and book bags and books and -- >> how about food? >> at the end of the day, they become kind of one of their parents or their chaperone, somebody they have to look after

more so than just a teacher to a kid. when you hear those stories, you want to give back, and i mean, that was the easy part, giving pencils and pens and book bags and books. arts and craft supplies, those things go a long way. >> you're also helping the kids. you do the courts for kids stuff. 20 plus courts save spaces for kids. what's the story for that whole idea. >> the idea came out -- i played on an outside court. nowadays people don't play outside. i wanted to bring back that community field, and put up a basketball court. basketball -- sports in general kind of connects everything in life. >> why south africa, though. you're way outside the lines. you don't have that many homeboys in south africa, why are you doing court dms south africa? >> i think it makes sense. i've been to south africa a

couple years ago, i did the whole safari thing, and fell in love with the -- i took my kids there too, look. they're taller than you. >> once you see that, and you see the other side of things, this is what i want to be a part of, how can my foundation help? >> you mean the poverty? >> it's another place i wanted to add on to my foundation. >> we've also done stuff in puerto rico. you have a real puerto rican heritage. the hurricane really tore up puerto rico, and yet i didn't see the white house responding to that in a way they should. does that bother you to see the white house missing in action during a crisis? >> it hurt. someone who spends a lot of time down there on the island, got an opportunity to talk to those people. over the years i've been down there, 10 plus years i've been

going back and forth helping out. to see our government turn their back to that. >> puerto ricans are american citizens. >> they're american citizens, if you turn your back to your own american citizens, can you do anything. that was something that i felt like, it was a low blow kind of -- to me and to all the puerto ricans down there, we can't control a hurricane -- we just couldn't control that, the least you can do is send the resources down there, and we did a great job, we sent airplanes down there with supplies, tools down there, we teamed up with a couple other big companies. trying to get the supplies down there. >> it was a lot, and sad that we had to go through that in order to help you. >> you can't do everything, i get that, you can't help everything and help everybody out. the things and people that really need attention to, that's what you're supposed to be giving our attention to as far as the government, as far as our

leader of our country. puerto rico is part of this country. and i felt like -- the government completely turned their backs. >> we all have platforms, you're using your brilliantly. >> thank you, man. >> can i have a hat? you're wearing those hats. >> we'll send you one. >> all right. >> we'll send you a couple. >> i love that guy. listen, 2018 is became called the year of the woman in politics. we have a record number of women running for office, state level, national level, local level. we're going to hear from three millennial women who have unseated men who have more experience in their quest for public office. find out what's motivating them when we get back. a steak. perf. and three ways for perfect shrimp. introducing steak & shrimp, starting at $15.99. whether you choose bbq, garlic butter or sweet & tangy shrimp, it'll be perfect. hurry in! steak & shrimp ends soon.

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there's a lot of momentum on the far left wing of the democratic party, with bernie sanders. championen democratic socialism, that's a concept that's new to a lot of people. and a lot of traditional democrats are worried about their party being taken over by a bunch of marxists. i put together this explainer video to hopefully ease some of your fears, take a look.

the term socialism has been scary for people on the right and left. >> governor palin accused me of socialism. socialism. >> you may hear it and think of stalinist russia or monthist china. democratic socialism is not communism or authoritarianism. think sweden, democratic socialists have controlled that government for decades. now, socialism is an economic system not a political one it allows for citizens to control the country's production, industry and trade as a collective. the goal is to minimize economic inequality and allow everyone to benefit. denmark and finland observe free education, universal health care and public pensions. their citizens have to pay a much higher tax burden. business and industry are

cntrolled by private owners and corporations for personal profit. >> we cannot continue to have a government dominated by the billionaire class. >> some dictators and strong men have given socialism a bad wrap, forcing the system on people through brutality and violence. democratic socialists denounce all that. the key word for them, democratic. they believe the government and the economy should be run by the people by way of the ballot box. that means voting on whether to use collective tax dollars for free college tuition, paid family leave, affordable housing or raising the minimum wage. >> in the modern, moral and wealthy society no person in america should be too poor to live. >> we have some real life democratic socialists who are joining us now. three women who demolished their

establishment in democratic primaries for state representative in the beautiful state of pennsylvania. each of these women are regular working folk, they're not backed by big donors. summer lee, she's running in pennsylvania's 34th district outside of pittsburgh. sarah running in the 21st district, also the pittsburgh area. and elizabeth feedler, running in south philly. >> before we get into the whole socialist thing. >> go straight to it. >> i've been in politics my whole life. incumbents are hard to knock off. how did you do it? what is your secret? >> for my campaign, it was working really really hard. i was told in the beginning that it was impossible this is someone who's been in office for 25 years, it's impossible you can't do it.

that made me really angry. >> we knocked on 53,000 doors and i knocked on a lot of doors myself. i have two little kids. i knocked on the doors with my kids with me. i'm a regular person, i'm their neighbor, i'm invested in public schools. >> is that what you did? >> absolutely. it's also trusting yourself, i worked in nonprofits and community development. i knew the groups and i knew my neighbors really well, and i knew we weren't being represented from someone who had a shared value system. it was tuning out the professionals and consultants that said this was unwinnable and trusting my gut. and using the time that we had and the resources we had to knock on doors. we didn't knock on as many. i think i came in third place. about 35,000 doors during our campaign. >> what about you?

>> 40,000, probably. really, just doing it. it was -- that's really what it is, that's the secret, you can't win a seat you don't run for. most of the time, these folks sitting in these seats, no one runs against them. any time someone does they say you can't do it, why don't you wait, go back home, try some other time. why not do it right now. >> i mean, it's so inspiring, and i know a lot of people at home they watch the news, they feel frustrated. don't think they can do anything. you guys are doing stuff. you're inspiring people and freaking a lot of people out you've all been endorsed by the democratic socialists of america. comey says, democrats please don't lose your minds and rush to the socialist left. this is a bad idea. how do you respond to people who look at you guys and they don't

feel hope, they feel fear. >> we reflected on that quote from comey earlier today, for me, these are human rights, these are things that we should all have that's something i'm deeply invested in, and we need to have politicians that are fighting for those things. >> socialism used to be something democrats ran away from. >> when it's a one on one conversation, what do you care about? more than likely, they're going to talk about health care, they're going to talk about education, they're going to talk about the lack of affordable housing. >> i have the same schizophrenia as anyone else. i want real rich people to get taxed, but i want to keep all of my money. how do we deal with the price tag, the stuff you're talking about. free this, and free that i'm scared to pay for it many how do you deal with it? >> we talked about at the state level and pennsylvania, specifically.

we have and we spend more money on encarcerating people than we do on educating them. this is talking about reprioritizing money we already have. our first instinct is not to say, we're going to tax everybody. which is also not the worst thing in the world. but it's not saying that's what we're going to do. >> when you think about the direction of the democratic party beyond the doors you're knocking on. you have people like conner lamb, and he's running and he's not running as a socialist, he's running much more to the right. is conner lamb wrong? do you think he's a problem? >> it's funny to be going do a democratic primary, you see all of these people in pennsylvania at different events. i've spoken with conner and we know where we differ, but we need to have a conversation and we need to say what -- my goal is to try to push him further, to challenge where he is at, but

also recognize that his constituency looks different than mine. >> absolutely. >> personally, yes, i do believe we need to have a conversation. and perhaps our constituency looks different. maybe his constituency looks whiter than mine. they're not poorer than mine. who doesn't deserve a living wage? everyone deserves a living wage. reproductive rights are for everyone. you don't have to run that way because it's a more conservative district. >> people are struggling with the opiod crisis, they want pharmaceutical companies to be held accountable. they want all of these same things and i think we need to have a democratic party that talks to us about people. working people share so much in common and if we unite then that's when we really win.

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jones show. democratic socialist women but they're running to be state reps in pennsylvania. summer lee and -- welcome to the "dan jones show." look, i'm curious. you're millennials, you're young, you're female. new generation. do you think the democratic party needs new leadership that top? do you thing it's time for people like yourself to replace the nancy pelosi's of the world? >> throughout the party we need more representive party, more representive congress. so leadership should also reflect that. i'm the first black woman to come out of western pennsylvania. i mean we exist. we should be represented wherever we go. so i feel like we need younger, more color. >> are you running for office because trump's president. >> i'm not. >> why not? >> my community has the same

issues whether it was trump or obama, fdr or regan. they're timeless. we're worried about who's that bottom. >> what about you? >> yes, i was shocked when pennsylvania flipped to trump but i had been excited about what was happening for a long time. i thought if i'm going to stay in my job where i'm relatively comfortable, who is this other person who's going to run for office and push the policies that i want to see. >> i did a little research on you guys and you guys are weird in that you're running for office. they have their own career. they all think they're going to be president. but you guys are actually helpinging each other. you're sharing resources. you have a group chat. what have you learned -- this is a very millennial, very possibly female, very new way of doing things. what have you learned from each other? >> we learned that the narrative

of scarcety -- if we're willing to share that we can actually move in an agenda and we can actually bring more people to the table. because if it's just one race, then it's not as exciting but it's two, three, a whole movement, then people start to believe that another world is possible. >> i appreciate your being here. summer, sarah, elizabeth, good luck to you guys. i'm going to be watching your races. peace and love for one another. see you next time. who would have thought, who would have guessed? an energy company helping cars emit less. making cars lighter, it's a good place to start, advanced oils for those hard-working parts. fuels that go further so drivers pump less.

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