Abdul El Sayed’s Fiery Response SILENCES Mike Roger On Trump Corruption

Do you think that they're equally dangerous to the world? I think they're both very dangerous. Let me just be clear about that. You know, if you're walking in the woods and your friend decides to poke a bear, and now you're running from the bear or you're fighting the bear, is it the bear or your friend? I'd say it's probably both. And a friend who pokes a bear when you're out on the walk, inadvisable, probably you've got to question whether or not that's actually a friendship. So I've been very clear. I think they're both dangerous. I think the fact that we're fighting the war in Iran is a function of what the prime minister of Israel wanted. He literally was invited to the Situation Room to pitch the case. We find ourselves now seven months into a war that we should not be fighting. We're paying for it in our taxes, we're paying for it at the grocery store, we're paying for it in gas. And ask yourself whether or not this makes sense to you. And how do we get out? Well, nobody knows. And guess what? We were at peace with Iran. We had a JCPOA that had sustained the nuclear threat, had contained the nuclear threat. So we didn't need to do this. But Donald Trump ripped up the JCPOA and then he took us to war we shouldn't be fighting. exactly the kind of foreign policy, by the way, that people like Mike Rogers have been pushing for a very, very long time. He is on the record, back when he was in Congress, advocating for war with Iran. We're going to go to Fox 17. So is that equally dangerous then, going back 50 years, the revolution? I would say that any of those dangers, but let's be clear that we should not be in the first world because of both actions. One of your campaign staffers You've said that the questions and comments that you've heard of the campaign trail are different than the ones that have been asked and said at the debates. What's something from the campaign trail that has not yet been said or asked at these debates so far? You know, I don't think I've gotten a question from the press about child care. Not once. It comes up almost every single town hall in some way or another. You know why? Because it's one of the biggest drags on women in the economy. You know, too often because it's so expensive, right? One family member or another has to leave the workforce to take care of a kid. And more often than not, it's women. and I get asked about that every day now y'all don't don't ask me about that question but it is a fundamental issue for so many people and I really wish that more of our conversation was more trained on the issues that every day people face we go to CBS right here yeah no You're good, you're good. Ben, we'll go to you. One of your campaign staffers said you'd be able to take foreign donations. Is that true? We're going to go to Ben. Why did he say it? Mike Rogers has said a lot about his ability to chip into the Democratic base in this race. Are you concerned about his campaign's ability to do that thus far? And what have you done to shore up the Democratic base to vote for you? We feel quite confident about having shored up the Democratic base. What we're finding in this particular moment is that he really does have base problems. I mean, when you're getting 1,300 people in Marquette, 500, 600 people in the eastern and western UP, he really has base problems. Now, I don't know if you saw this report. I think CNN went to his Detroit office two days later after the big fanfare of opening it, and there was nobody there. So, look, he's going to make a show out of things, and he needs something to grasp on to make sure that the corporations keep funding his campaign. But look we are actually campaigning. I mean you've been on this trail which of the two campaigns is more aggressive more active Which of the two it's an important question. I can't say you can't say Dr. Olson. Also, why bring Obama into town I think having him come in support is a good thing and I'm excited to to have him on the stump And I think look we have an opportunity to continue to have conversations Like, we actually do events on this campaign, right? I do more events in a day more often than he does an entire week. Thank you for financial aid and being able to pay through college, including us as well. What are your plans for that? Look, I believe in a debt-free, tuition-free pathway to higher education. I believe in an era of AI to be able to do that. As we watch AI trying to automate away the nature of the work that you're training to do. You know, we have had a challenge with higher education for a very long time because we've been actively defunding it under the policies of people like Donald Trump. When you defund the Department of Education, what you're actively defunding are programs for people in college. And what a lot of folks don't realize is that we used to fund higher education in a lot of different ways, in far bigger ways. And we've watched as the overhead of higher education has just increased. And so I think we need policies that are going to be invested in students, invested in institutions of higher learning, and also to put a cap on the extra spending on things that don't really improve education. right? Maybe, you know, five flavors of Froyo instead of 19, right? But too often, these are the big projects that you're getting donors to come and fund, but they impose a lot of overhead on higher education. So I think we need to address that as well. So it's time for one more question. We're going to go to CBS. You've made Medicare for All a central tenet of your campaign. And I'm curious, you know, Rogers is going to incur on Michiganders. What is that cost going to be? And do you think this can actually get passed in Congress in today's day and age in the next two years? Let's talk about what the costs are now. The average family is paying, what, $2,000 a month for a premium. And then their deductible is $4,500. The median family makes $72,000 a year. So that means you're losing a whole paycheck to pay for the health care you paid for every single paycheck. That's the reality of health care in America right now. And I believe that we can do a lot better. Now, where does that money go in our system? More and more of it is getting sucked up by the overhead in the insurance industry, pharmaceutical industry, hospital industry that's going to CEO pay. When the CEO of a health insurer makes tens of millions of dollars, every single one of those dollars was a dollar somebody paid for health care for their family. So if I can tell you that your overall costs are going to go down, because right now you pay a premium like it's a tax. It goes off the top of your paycheck, and it goes into the back pocket of a CEO. If I told you you could pay less and get durable health care that wouldn't leave you if you lost your job, wouldn't leave you if you turned 26, wouldn't leave you if you got a job, lost a job, wouldn't leave you if you got married, got divorced, wouldn't leave you if you turned 65, it'd just be there for you. I think the vast majority of the American public would be like, yeah, that's a trade I'm willing to make. And when I tell you that we can do that and we can do that for 25% less cost than we pay right now off the top and we can reduce the speed at which our health care gets more expensive, that's a good deal. It's a reason why nearly 70% of the American public supports Medicare for all as it stands right now. Now, the reason we have a bipartisan consensus against Medicare for all, even though the public wants Medicare for all is because of politicians like Mike Rogers, who take money from the health insurance and from the pharmaceutical corporations. He's taken money from big pharma has taken money from big insurance. And yes, of course he is going to oppose this policy. It tells us too expensive, even though he's voted what 19 times to keep prescription drug prices high. This is the problem with our politics. The thing you'll get with me is I don't take money from the corporations, so I'm going to call it how it is. We can have better than what we have right now. The vast majority of the American public understands that.