Governor Tim Walz
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241 appearances
14 recordings
8 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 19 Apr
Governor Tim Walz’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Well, we knew it was coming, but it's still a day that I dreaded. I dreaded it as a teacher, as a parent, certainly as a governor now. And the sad part for me about this is Donald Trump doesn't know anything about education. This has been a
a longtime dream of the far right to crush the public education system, to take that money and transfer it to private schools that don't exist in a lot of areas or rural areas, and to undermine some of the missions of the Department of Ed, making sure everybody gets an education, regardless of race, religion, or abilities.
students like my son who depend on IDEA and individual education plans to make sure that they're treated equally and get the best possible education they can. That's a hallmark of America. I think America's great contribution to the world is our public education system. And of course, Donald Trump doesn't care. And I appreciate you showing that photo because it's so obscene that he would
put a mock classroom. We all know he's never been in one. He wouldn't last for a minute. He's never done it. He's surrounded by people who know nothing about education. And they want to make this about bureaucracy and cutting. This is about children. This is about broadband access in their schools. This is about the research you were talking about, pedagogy, things that we learn.
And then it's about the Civil Rights Department at the Department of Education. that makes sure that we don't have a situation where a Ruby Bridges is escorted to school with police. And so we're back in an area where we can segregate. And he knows that curriculums and those decisions are made on a local basis, but they muddy the water.
So look, just like your previous guest, thanks for having her on, but it's chilling. They don't care about law. They don't care about where the American public's at. And that kind of segues to why I'm getting out there and There's a reason that these Republican Congress members aren't holding town halls, because this is so unpopular they can't defend it.
But I'm going to make sure that the voices of their constituents are heard.
Yeah, these folks just, and they want to be heard. I think a town hall is healthy. People say it in front of their neighbors. For example, I was in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, and a retired couple, both teachers got up and they talked about the times where in their classroom, they provided a little extra money into accounts for kids so that they could eat. They're worried about that.
They're worried about who's going to go into teaching when they see folks demonizing it. There's folks standing up a woman with Parkinson's disease, another that worried about his brother who needed special services through Medicaid. And they're terrified. They're terrified because of the chaos. They don't know what's going to happen. And there's no plans for this.
They're not putting anything in place. We fire people, then we hire them back. You know, we get rid of people working on bird flu, and then we hire them back. It's all about chaos. And the thing that's most troubling to me is... especially with this Department of Education move. This was all written down in Project 2025. This is a very, you know, systematic effort to undermine us.
But look, these are regular people, people standing up. I had a young airman, specialized service, flying on intelligence missions. She is not going to be able to serve because they have decided that they don't like who she is, simply who she is. And the spouses of service members who have all been fired. And you know how this works on military bases.
The spouses usually work at the commissary, the hospital, the school, whatever it may be, and those have all been laid off. And so it just goes on and on. A lot of these folks who are coming there did not support Donald Trump, but a lot of them, even if they didn't support, said that we didn't know it would be this bad.
Just the absolute disregard for folks who want to serve our veterans and can't. So it's... It is a mess. I do believe, though, that I've been given a platform running and the privilege of running with Vice President Harris, given a platform to list folks up and they are coming out. These are folks that are coming out. They're making their voices heard.
And these members of Congress are going to dodge it. Donald Trump doesn't have to stand in front of the voters again, but these folks do. And we need to make it clear that this cannot stand. And we'll challenge them on all fronts. We'll challenge them in the court of public opinion. We'll challenge them in the courts. It's simply not what America's founded on.
Again, I go back to that previous story with the attorney and the absolute disregard for all rule of law and human rights. This is stuff that Americans need to pay attention. I'm an optimistic person, and I'm not trying to paint this too terribly, but I think we have to assume the very worst in everything that this administration does, and we need to prepare for it.
Well, speechless would be the word. I don't know how to convey. I don't possess the language ability to convey how far out of the norm this is. Like nothing that people listening like, look, this is those of us who served the background checks from the FBI just just to receive clearance as an artillery agent.
enlisted soldier was extensive to get that background and then the level of information that you can get or as a member of Congress to be able to have access to this type of information. These are closely guarded secrets because our national and our global defense depends upon them. And once again, we have this
I don't know, the character, the world's richest man with the world's most fragile ego. And I don't understand where the Republicans, where are Lindsey Graham's? Where are these people who know how this works to not be terrified of where this is at? And again, seeing the Commerce Secretary today tell people to go buy a specific stock and not jesting, not in that.
And look, I have to be very careful because I'll be candid. I think this guy is is deeply damaged, a buffoon, but I also don't want to elevate him. He is unelected. He does not know how this stuff works. And Donald Trump is being reckless with the most sensitive data. So I want to try and provide some assurance to the American people.
But I also think our leadership needs to be very clear about not not sugarcoating this. And Donald Trump obviously disrespects the American public. He thinks they're not smart enough to understand this and doesn't care. I do believe the American public knows. And I do believe when they see stories like this, that this is why these town halls are growing so big.
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