00:00Mike Rogers, during Trump's come-up, used to talk about how dangerous Donald Trump was.
00:06And now, he does not see a policy that Donald Trump wants that he is not willing to kowtow to
00:11and rubber stamp.
00:13He's willing to lick all the boots, so long as Donald Trump will keep giving him a thumbs-up.
00:19This is Donald Trump's Mike Rogers.
00:22Make no mistake about it.
00:24He is a corporate shill and a Donald Trump suck-up.
00:30And in November, we'll send him back to Florida where he belongs.
00:37It is clear, just based on his own record, that he is among the most corrupt candidates for U.S.
00:46Senate in recent memory and certainly in Michigan history.
00:52This is a guy who took more than $5 million from big corporations to run his campaigns while he was
00:57in Congress for 14 years.
01:01He was actively taking money while voting to do the bidding of those exact same corporations.
01:07Voted, what, 19 times to make sure that you kept paying more for your prescription drugs?
01:14Helped to move legislation that expanded the spread of opioids in the midst of an opioid epidemic?
01:26Voted to gut options to stand up to big corporations time and time and time again.
01:34And the real payoff wasn't just the $5.4 million he took to run his campaigns, but the $14.6
01:41million that became his net worth after he left his job in Congress.
01:49He was trading on the relationships he built while he was a congressman from this state.
01:54And he took that money and he moved to Florida, bought a McMansion, and one yacht wasn't enough for the
02:00man.
02:00He had to buy two of them.
02:03I mean, you could only be on one yacht at a time, am I wrong?
02:06What'd you need the second one for?
02:07A security yacht?
02:09Meanwhile, you've got the basic economic security that people rely on.
02:14You know, there's been an effort, I think, to divide people against each other.
02:19And unfortunately, you see the consequence of that.
02:23To tell us that some group or another group have to be counterposed because there's not enough for all of
02:28us.
02:28I am Arab, I'm also African.
02:30My family immigrated to this country from Egypt.
02:33I'm proud of my African heritage.
02:35And when people try to divide us based on identity or ethnicity, sometimes we miss the nuances that make us
02:42whole and that make us human.
02:44And regardless of what my name is or what my heritage might be, when I look at my daughters in
02:50the eye,
02:51the question I'm always asking is, how do we build an America where they and all of their sisters and
02:58brothers,
02:58regardless of the color of skin or where they grew up, have the basic things that they need in their
03:02lives?
03:02And my work has entirely been about dignifying that.
03:06I left a role in the academy to come to rebuild a health department in the city of Detroit,
03:10to serve what was at that point 85% black city.
03:13Because I also understand that if we're not serious about racial equity, we're not serious about building the kind of
03:17America that America is supposed to be.
03:20Put glasses on tens of thousands of kids' faces, took on big corporate polluters, inspected schools when their boilers weren't
03:27working,
03:28made sure that they weren't drinking lead in their water, eliminated medical debt.
03:33And that has been about a service that is rendered to communities that might not look like me or pray
03:39like me.
03:40But we certainly hold this space, this America together.
03:43And when anybody suffers for lack of the kind of government services they deserve, all of us suffer.
03:49So that's been the vision that I've operated on my whole life.
03:52Now, there's always going to be folks like Donald Trump or J.D. Vance who want to divide us and
03:56tell us
03:56that if one community has any success, the other community loses it, that only some groups of people can thrive
04:04here.
04:05But I've always believed in the kind of America that I saw in my own house.
04:08I grew up in a house built by Mohammed and Jackie, an Egyptian immigrant from the northeast corner of Africa
04:13and a daughter of the American Revolution whose family's been here since before the Revolutionary War.
04:18And I saw what they built together, a home that's greater than the sum of its parts.
04:22So I'm really grateful for that.
04:24And the only way you oppose the kind of zero-sum politics that tell us that there's only enough to
04:30go around for a few
04:31is to come together with communities believing that what we can gain together is so much bigger than what we
04:38fight for alone.
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