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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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1531 total appearances

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It's Open with Ilana Glazer
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

And so he met with them, and we โ€“

It's Open with Ilana Glazer
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

We worked with organizers, everyday people.

It's Open with Ilana Glazer
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

This is what I'm saying, like how we can actually make a difference.

It's Open with Ilana Glazer
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

So there were these everyday organizers and people that had submitted FOIA requests.

It's Open with Ilana Glazer
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Because anybody can do that.

It's Open with Ilana Glazer
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Freedom of Information Act request to ask for emails in the EPA about this.

It's Open with Ilana Glazer
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

And they found them.

It's Open with Ilana Glazer
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

And they found the meeting notes online.

It's Open with Ilana Glazer
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

from the senior advisor to Lee Zeldin, who had met with Bayer to have a pre-meeting before Lee Zeldin met with them and said, this is what we're gonna talk about.

It's Open with Ilana Glazer
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

And one of them was that they were talking about how they wanna take on the Supreme Court.

It's Open with Ilana Glazer
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

They wanna bring their case to the Supreme Court so Americans can't sue them anymore.

It's Open with Ilana Glazer
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Legal immunity for Bayer and Monsanto at the Supreme Court.

It's Open with Ilana Glazer
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

But their case rested on the EPA not warning or saying that basically the EPA never said this was carcinogenic, so no one should ever be able to sue us for this, which is, even if that were true, still crazy.

It's Open with Ilana Glazer
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Like what not should be the bar, right?

It's Open with Ilana Glazer
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

This is all just big money and power and one hand washing the other.

It's Open with Ilana Glazer
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

But we got these emails.

It's Open with Ilana Glazer
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

So Lee Zeldin comes, and what was important is that he comes before the committee.