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
00:11to and rubber stamp.
00:13He's willing to lick all the boots, so long as Donald Trump will keep giving him a thumbs
00:18up.
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.
00:35A man who's taken us to a war he can't seem to figure out how to get us out of,
00:40that's
00:41taught the Ayatollahs how to squeeze our energy, raised our gas prices to near $5 a gallon.
00:49And Mike Rogers, during Trump's come up, used to talk about how dangerous Donald Trump
00:54was.
00:55And now he does not see a policy that Donald Trump wants that he is not willing to kowtow
01:00to and rubber stamp.
01:02He's willing to lick all the boots, so long as Donald Trump will keep giving him a thumbs
01:07up.
01:08This is Donald Trump's Mike Rogers.
01:11Make no mistake about it.
01:13He is a corporate shill and a Donald Trump suck up.
01:19And in November, we'll send him back to Florida where he belongs.
01:25So with that, I'd be happy to take any questions that folks might have, Joey.
01:39The last time I saw Jake Lang, he had tried to pull a similar stunt at one of our canvas
01:46launches.
01:48And I wouldn't have noticed them except for his anklet.
01:53Because this is a convicted January 6th terrorist.
01:59And when we realized who he was and what he was trying to do, we also realized that he
02:05actually, his issue isn't with me or people like me.
02:09His issue is with America itself.
02:11His issue is with free and fair elections.
02:14His issue is with the idea that America can be a big place where we come together around
02:20ideals.
02:20What does I Pluribus Una mean in the first place?
02:23And so, yeah, he's going to continue to pull stunts on behalf of people like Donald Trump
02:27and Mike Rogers, who believe that America is a small place, that your name or your family
02:35heritage should dictate whether or not you belong here.
02:38But I'll tell you this, I think I speak for all of us who have uncommon names or uncommon
02:46heritage or who love in ways that folks like him don't understand or don't look like the
02:53picture perfect of what he thinks America cannot include.
03:02And the America I know, the Michigan I know, is full of open-minded, big-hearted people.
03:09They're less concerned with how you pray than what you pray or you hope for.
03:14Less concerned with what your name is and a lot more concerned with whether or not you
03:17care to know their name.
03:20People like him are afraid of that kind of America.
03:23And there's been a long effort by people like him, Donald Trump, J.D. Vance, Mike Rogers,
03:28to make America smaller, to make us smaller, to limit what we can be.
03:33And I believe in a big America.
03:36I believe in the America where people come together, not despite their differences, but
03:40because of their differences, understanding that the things we need, we need together.
03:44That when we look at our kids in the eye, we want the same things for them.
03:47That we love in the same way, that we hurt in the same way.
03:50And that when America works for all of us, it works better for any of us.
03:54So, people like that can keep trying to limit what America is, but they keep showing themselves
04:00for who they are.
04:01And America will keep showing itself for who we are.
04:04An America that is big enough for everybody.
04:11Two more questions.
04:29You know, there's been an effort, I think, to divide people against each other.
04:34And unfortunately, you see that, the consequence of that.
04:38To tell us that some group or another group have to be counterposed because there's not
04:42enough for all of us.
04:43I am Arab.
04:44I'm also African.
04:46My family immigrated to this country from Egypt.
04:48I'm proud of my African heritage.
04:50And when people try to divide us based on identity or ethnicity, sometimes we miss the
04:55nuances that make us whole and that make us human.
04:59And regardless of what my name is or what my heritage might be, when I look at my daughters
05:05in the eye, the question I'm always asking is, how do we build an America where they and
05:12all of their sisters and brothers, regardless of the color of skin or where they grew up,
05:15have the basic things that they need in their lives?
05:17And my work has entirely been about dignifying that.
05:20And I left a role in the academy to come to rebuild a health department in the city of Detroit,
05:25to serve what was at that point 85% black city.
05:28Because I also understand that if we're not serious about racial equity, we're not serious
05:32about building the kind of America that America is supposed to be.
05:35Put glasses on tens of thousands of kids' faces, took on big corporate polluters, inspected
05:41schools when their boilers weren't working, made sure that they weren't drinking lead in
05:45their water, eliminated medical debt.
05:48And that has been about a service that is rendered to communities that might not look
05:54like me or pray like me.
05:55But we certainly hold this space, this America together.
05:58And when anybody suffers for lack of the kind of government services they deserve, all of
06:03us suffer.
06:04So that's been the vision that I've operated on my whole life.
06:07Now, there's always going to be folks like Donald Trump or J.D. Vance who want to divide
06:11us and tell us that if one community has any success, the other community loses it.
06:16That only some groups of people can thrive here.
06:20But I've always believed in the kind of America that I saw in my own house.
06:23I grew up in a house built by Mohammed and Jackie, Egyptian immigrant from the northeast
06:27corner of Africa and a daughter of the American Revolution whose family's been here since before
06:32the Revolutionary War.
06:33And I saw what they built together, a home that's greater than the sum of its parts.
06:37So I'm really grateful for that.
06:39And the only way you oppose the kind of zero-sum politics that tell us that there's only enough
06:44to go around for a few is to come together with communities believing that what we can
06:51gain together is so much bigger than what we fight for alone.
06:54So I'd love the opportunity to sit down with that gentleman.
06:57I really would.
06:58I'd love the opportunity to understand his perspective and what he fears.
07:01Because at the end of the day, I care as much that he has Medicare as I care that you
07:05have Medicare, that I care that everybody here has Medicare because I want Medicare for
07:08all, I care as much that our government is bought off so he doesn't have to pay an inflated
07:12DTE bill or an inflated Blue Cross bill, as I care that anybody here doesn't have their
07:17government corrupted by a few corporations.
07:19I care that he has a union just like everybody here deserves a union.
07:22Because it's when we think together about our differences to come across them, to build
07:27beyond them, that's when we make America what it really is and we fulfill that promise.
07:31So I appreciate you asking the question.
07:32I hope someday I get to sit down with him.
07:33I'm sure we have an amazing conversation.
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