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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 whenever someone's coming before the committee, you have to think, what am I going to ask this guy?

It's Open with Ilana Glazer
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

There's no shortage of things to press him on.

It's Open with Ilana Glazer
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

But what I had seen was that the uproar around glyphosate was bipartisan, right?

It's Open with Ilana Glazer
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

maha this is this big issue and like maha has organized around this and so when i talk about like these core truths it's like this stuff is real like corporations are and people know about this right and they know that that these companies are poisoning us whether it's pfas or glyphosate or whatever it is and they know that they're paying off the government or or exerting power to not be accountable to it and to not let us know so what happened with you and zeldin in congress

It's Open with Ilana Glazer
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

So he comes before and I asked him, have you ever met with the Bayer CEO?

It's Open with Ilana Glazer
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

And he goes, absolutely not.

It's Open with Ilana Glazer
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

And I reach for a paper.

It's Open with Ilana Glazer
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

I probably did it too soon.

It's Open with Ilana Glazer
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

And then he goes, and he sees me reach for the paper.

It's Open with Ilana Glazer
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

And he goes, oh, it was very brief.

It's Open with Ilana Glazer
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

It was a meeting, but it was very brief.

It's Open with Ilana Glazer
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

because he would have perjured himself.

It's Open with Ilana Glazer
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

So he sees me reach for the paper because he didn't know what I had.

It's Open with Ilana Glazer
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

I said, oh, did anyone who works for you have conversations with them too?

It's Open with Ilana Glazer
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Because that email said that they had already met with Bayer and prepped all the content already.

It's Open with Ilana Glazer
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

And Bayer was thanking him for getting rid of the glyphosate warnings

It's Open with Ilana Glazer
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

likely so that they could set up the Supreme Court case, which was happening this week.

It's Open with Ilana Glazer
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

So, you know... To give Americans cancer.