Randi Weingarten

And you saw...

A week and a half of Mike Johnson and others trying to basically scare the bejesus out of people to not go to no kings.

Oh, they're terrorists.

Oh, they're Hamas supporters.

I mean, like for weeks until the hostages arrived back in Israel, I wore a necklace that said, you know, bring them home.

I mean, like, how dare you call those of us who care about freedom terrorists or Hamas supporters, both of which we are completely condemn.

But that's calling names wrong.

creating fear, isolation, apathy.

That's the playbook of the autocrats.

The playbook that I have is how we create community, how we listen and lead, how we fight together for the things that Americans need so that they can get ahead and their families will have a better life the next generation than we had our generation.

That goes back to affordability, opportunity, dignity, and democracy.

Valerie will get you everywhere today.

Well, I think that we discount the fact that culture plays a huge role in everything that happens in communities and everything that happens in terms of elections.

And when I say culture, I mean, you know, people think that they're voting in their own self-interest.

It's very, you've got to meet people where they are, not where you want them to be.

And I think that when what we see, particularly take health care,

You know, health care, and I don't want to get into right now, you know, should we have Medicaid, Medicare for all or not?

There's, you know, lots of reasons why, you know, you can't, once you've settled on a private insurance as the basis for a health care system,

It's very hard for that system to change in a way that creates consistency in a good way and that reduces costs.

But, you know, that's... So I don't want to... I'm not sitting here saying we should adopt a Medicare for all system, even though, personally, you know, I support it.