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Van Jones
@vanjones· Jul 28, 2019

I think what's really going on is you have a lot of African-Americans who are parked there for Biden and they are waiting.

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Scott Jennings
@scottjennings· Jul 25, 2019

There is huge concern about that. I mean, this is one of the down the road, you know, I told you so that could happen if Democrats win the White House.

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Scott Jennings
@scottjennings· Jul 25, 2019

I think it validates the president's position. He said the border issues are a crisis and national emergency all along.

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Scott Jennings
@scottjennings· Jul 25, 2019

Yes, there is a lot of dimensions to the victory, Anderson. Number one, it's a political victory when the president came under some attack for not building the wall so he'll be able to check the box.

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Van Jones
@vanjones· Jul 24, 2019

I really do wish he would talk more about what he did during those eight years of Obama rather than getting drug back to the 1990s and the Clinton crime bill.

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Van Jones
@vanjones· Jul 24, 2019

But, look, nobody will be happier than me to see Joe Biden come out and be the Joe that everybody is looking for to be that Trump killer.

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Jon Stewart
@jonstewart· Jul 22, 2019

We can never repay all that the 9/11 community has done for our country, though we can't stop penalizing them.

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Scott Jennings
@scottjennings· Jul 18, 2019

We don't have to win ugly. We can debate the ideas and I think win an election on our policies and on our record. We don't have to be ugly to win and I hope the President understands he's got something to run on other than this.

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Jon Stewart
@jonstewart· Jul 11, 2019

Passing the bill in the Senate will be a chance to exhale, but it doesn't fix the grief obviously for these responders to continue to experience going forward.

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Van Jones
@vanjones· Jun 25, 2019

She's the populist, she's the other populist. Donald Trump is a populist. Sanders is a populist. Elizabeth Warren, the third populist.

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Van Jones
@vanjones· Jun 12, 2019

If somebody is standing up representing the government, representing the White House, standing in front of the White House, wearing that honor, they should be doing the people's business, not the party's business, not the politicians'…

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Van Jones
@vanjones· Jun 12, 2019

We do not want people who have the imprimatur of the U.S. government who are being paid by taxpayers to do the people's business to abuse that office, to abuse that opportunity, to abuse that platform to play petty politics to crap on…

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Jon Stewart
@jonstewart· Jun 11, 2019

Your indifference costs these men and women their most valuable commodity, time. It's the one thing they're running out of.

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Van Jones
@vanjones· Apr 25, 2019

I don't think the President understands how painful this is and how dangerous this is like this is, you know, the worst people in the country, the hatemongers, the violent fringe love when he does this.

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Van Jones
@vanjones· Apr 24, 2019

Well, listen, I say welcome, welcome, welcome. I mean, to hear his voice really calling us up, he's calling Trump out, he's really calling us up and I think I felt like you know, help is on the way.

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Candace Owens
@candaceowens· Apr 8, 2019

He was dishonest when he said that the President refused to condemn White nationalism.

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Van Jones
@vanjones· Mar 7, 2019

At every stage of our criminal justice system, if you are a person of color, you get worse treatment even when you control for income, even when you control for neighborhood, even when you control for educational attainment.

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Van Jones
@vanjones· Feb 4, 2019

The bullets that are being fired and the people who are being killed are being killed too often now by right-wing extremists in our country who sometimes feel encouraged by Donald Trump.

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Van Jones
@vanjones· Feb 4, 2019

As you look out into that chamber in the Senate and the House, and again, there is 300 people there and 400 people running for office, as you look out there, I hope they were taking notes tonight, not on Donald Trump, but on Stacey Abrams.

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Scott Jennings
@scottjennings· Jan 22, 2019

It was a powerful speech. And it sounded exactly like a speech you might give at the convention this year as why the American people should not vote for Donald Trump for reelection.

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