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0:49

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0:51

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0:53

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and screen superstars George Clooney

1:00

and Patty Lepone see a

1:02

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1:06

I'm an optimist. Oh, yeah.

1:08

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1:10

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1:29

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Navarro, love this

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And Alyssa Farrag Griffin.

2:08

Now, let's get things

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started This version

2:12

of me Stronger than

2:14

I thought I'll

2:17

sing a lot of things I'll

2:19

be the Beautiful I love,

2:21

I love I love

2:23

this version of me I

2:26

I love the Beautiful I

2:28

see this vision of me,

2:30

it's all about love. I

2:32

see my dream, I dream.

2:34

Well, hello, hello, hello, and

2:36

welcome to the view, y

2:38

'all. Welcome to the view,

2:40

and welcome view. And

2:44

nice to see 'all. So

2:47

let us tell you what

2:49

is going on now. Thanks.

2:54

We love you back. We love

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you back. So birth rates

2:59

to decline in America, the

3:01

White House is looking

3:03

into offering $5 ,000

3:06

cash bonuses, expanded

3:08

access to IVF, along

3:10

with other incentives for women

3:12

to have more babies. Why?

3:19

And, Okay. I

3:23

am incredibly insulted by

3:25

this, because because clearly

3:27

they don't know how

3:29

women's bodies work and

3:31

they don't know what

3:34

it costs to raise

3:36

a child, or just

3:38

have a child. And

3:41

$5 ,000? I

3:44

don't know what $5 ,000 is

3:47

supposed to do. And it's not

3:49

even $5 ,000 because you have to

3:51

cut it in half because you

3:53

got to pay taxes on it.

3:55

So offering you $2 ,500 to

3:57

have a baby. Now don't forget,

3:59

about all the stuff they've cut. Yes,

4:03

you have a list. So I'm supposed

4:05

to say to you all, and are

4:07

you ready for this? What

4:09

do you think of this proposal? Does

4:12

it address the reasons why perhaps

4:14

people aren't having children these days?

4:17

But aren't you excited about it? Well, I'm not

4:19

gonna turn down a $5 ,000 check, but I think

4:21

there are, I feel like. I think you will.

4:23

Well, you already have. gonna

4:26

have more them. You're missing my point, that was

4:28

a line. Thank you comedians for ruining that. I'm

4:32

gonna say is it's like putting a

4:34

band -aid on a deeper problem. We

4:36

don't have paid family leave in this

4:38

country. We don't have subsidized childcare. We

4:41

have the highest maternal

4:43

mortality rate. And the next,

4:45

it's... 55 % higher than

4:47

the second place. That's a lot for the

4:49

one of the wealthiest country in the

4:51

world. That's a problem. That's where we could

4:53

work on some of these programs and

4:55

that $5 ,000. So when you look at

4:57

Caesarean section. 2 ,500, babe. Okay, it's even

4:59

worse than that. It depends on your tax

5:02

bracket though. It depends on your tax,

5:04

but adding like essential supplies on top of

5:06

your medical costs, whether you're covered for

5:08

insurance or not, you're looking at about 16

5:10

,000 in the first year and that's a

5:12

conservative estimate. So it's just not touching

5:14

the. surface on this, but I'm one of

5:16

those people that I feel that the

5:18

Earth is overpopulated. So when it comes to

5:20

- Then why do they want us to

5:22

have more babies? Well, they want more

5:24

babies because it affects not only the workforce,

5:27

but paying into entitlement programs. The social

5:29

safety. But what I would say is this

5:31

is a short, they're missing

5:33

the greater point. AI. is gonna

5:35

be a problem for our entitlement programs

5:37

way before the birth rate. What entitlement programs?

5:39

So like the Social Security, if you

5:41

have less people working in the workforce, you

5:44

have less people paying into a system

5:46

that eventually has to pay, it's gonna

5:48

bankrupt the social services. The problem here

5:50

is AI is gonna defeat that way

5:52

before our birth rates are. So they're

5:54

missing something greater, they have to rework

5:56

our social system. Well they need to

5:58

track. actually need billionaires for one thing.

6:00

That would help. Incorporation. Yeah. Maybe they'll

6:02

have to know what to say. Which

6:04

Donald Trump has asked, actually floated taxing

6:06

billionaires. He floated? He suggested it. He

6:08

floated. People that are more

6:10

than a million dollars a year as well, he

6:12

wants to tax. I actually generally support this

6:14

policy, and that may surprise you guys. The number

6:16

one concern I hear from young people is

6:18

that they wanna have kids, but they don't think

6:21

they can afford it, and we could argue

6:23

over whether it's enough money or not, the 5

6:25

,000, but both Italy and France do this. You

6:27

get a one -time payment when you have a

6:29

child, and what it could go toward. pay

6:31

$5 ,000. What could go toward the out -of -pocket

6:33

cost for delivering? a child which ranges between about

6:35

$1 ,503 ,000. If you put it in a

6:37

529 savings account when that child is born, by

6:39

the time they're 18, you'll have twice that.

6:42

You'll have about $10 ,000 based on current market

6:44

conditions. We also have policies like

6:46

this in place. We have the child tax

6:48

credit, which gives you a tax credit

6:50

back for the number of children you have

6:52

and the earned income tax credit. Because

6:54

of this idea that our social safety net,

6:56

so social security, Medicare, Medicaid, rely on

6:58

the younger population keeping up with the older

7:01

population. they can pay into it. But

7:03

here's my caveat. This would need to apply

7:05

to gay couples, not just to women

7:07

who have children and to adoptive parents, not

7:09

just people who have children naturally. And

7:11

finally, they said that they're going to

7:14

look into ways to lower the cost of IVF. I'm

7:16

gonna need to see it, to believe it, but it

7:18

is too expensive. So many women deal

7:20

with infertility and they do need to

7:22

find a way to lower the cost. I

7:24

wanna reframe the issue a little bit

7:26

because when I look at something like this,

7:28

these proposals, I wanna know why. And

7:31

I want to know who's making them. And

7:33

so when I looked into that, they're

7:36

saying that the US birth

7:38

rate is declining. However, in

7:40

2024, there was a 1

7:42

% increase in US births.

7:44

But that increase was with

7:46

Hispanic mothers and Asian mothers. So

7:50

they don't seem to

7:52

be concerned about. that

7:55

increase, they seem to be

7:57

more concerned about a decrease

7:59

in other populations. Say it.

8:01

No, I think I said enough. It's

8:03

not based that. Well, it's

8:06

just based on a

8:08

study. it. And so the other

8:10

thing, I will they said that anywhere, I

8:12

feel like would be fair. Yeah, it's just fair

8:14

to hope. Have they said that

8:16

this is to target only white families? Oh, I didn't

8:18

say that. We have to read between the lines.

8:20

I just gave the stats. I'm not gonna say it.

8:23

They're wanting people to pay in. I'm

8:25

just giving facts. And so

8:27

also, when I think about who's

8:29

advocating, Project 2025,

8:32

remember that? Which

8:34

was tied to the Heritage

8:36

Foundation, the think tank

8:38

that led Project 2025? They

8:41

open up the Project 2025.

8:43

Before anything else, talking about family

8:45

issues, the first chapter promises

8:47

to restore the family as the

8:49

centerpiece of American life and

8:51

the Heritage Foundation in particular has

8:53

been researching this issue for

8:55

over two years and is preparing

8:57

to release a report in

8:59

the coming weeks on how it

9:01

believes the administration should counter

9:03

declining birth rates. So I

9:05

just leave that with all of you.

9:07

They're global declining birth rates. Yeah,

9:09

but I think when we're talking about

9:11

the United States, we need to

9:13

think about the... proposing it and why?

9:15

They want future consumers. I will

9:17

say this. I paid in my

9:19

money. I want my money back from Social Security.

9:22

I'm sorry. You

9:26

know, it is not anybody

9:28

else's responsibility, but mine

9:30

to make sure that I keep my payments

9:32

up. That's the first thing. But let

9:34

me talk about some of the things that

9:37

the administration has slashed, which is why

9:39

I am so not only insulted by that

9:41

amount of money, because $5 ,000? Yes,

9:43

it sounds like a lot of

9:45

money, but if you can't pay

9:47

your rent, if you can't pay

9:49

for your after school programs for

9:51

your kids, if you said to

9:53

me, But isn't something better than

9:55

nothing, I guess? No, not in

9:57

this case. I feel like if

9:59

Biden proposed this, we would all

10:01

be saying it's groundbreaking. No, no,

10:04

I'm sorry. I don't like the

10:06

idea that somebody is saying, you

10:08

need to, I'm gonna pay you to

10:10

have more kids. I know we're not allowed

10:12

to bring up the other times people

10:15

suggested that. But I will tell you, this

10:17

is not the first time country. It

10:19

feels little handsmaid's tale. But let me just

10:21

tell you this, one billion

10:23

in funding for schools and food banks

10:25

to buy food was cut. With

10:28

Drew funding for investigating

10:30

child sexual abuse and internet

10:32

crimes against children, cut. fired

10:35

the entire staff running a program

10:37

to help low income households pay

10:39

their heating and cooling bills. Now

10:42

these families already exist. Head

10:44

start. They haven't touched it

10:46

yet, but they're threatening it.

10:48

My point is, it

10:51

seems to me that this, everything

10:53

this administration seems to be doing is

10:55

telling people not to have children. Why

10:58

not make sure that kids that

11:00

we already have have a shot at

11:02

good schooling? If

11:04

you want us

11:07

to, you know

11:09

what I mean? I know it's

11:11

time to go, but if

11:13

you want people, if you want

11:15

people to have children, you

11:17

have to not scare them by

11:19

cutting all these programs that

11:22

they may need. These are not

11:24

black or white or Hispanic,

11:26

these are human children. These are

11:28

human children. And

11:30

I just, And I am

11:32

insulted by that amount because you

11:34

even go to the hospital

11:37

for $5 ,000 for goodness sakes.

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there are a lot, there's a

15:15

lot of uncertainty as we've been saying

15:17

about where the country's heading under

15:19

this administration. And apparently George Clooney just

15:21

sat down with Patty Lupone and

15:23

they talked about their predictions of where

15:25

they think we're gonna go from

15:27

here. Take a look. It's fine. We're

15:29

going to get through it. I

15:31

am... Do you think so? I'm an

15:33

optimist. Oh, yeah. See, I'm a

15:35

half... You're half -empty? I'm a glass -empty.

15:37

Well, let You've been around long

15:39

enough to remember 1968. Every city in

15:41

the United States was on fire.

15:43

It's not nearly as hopeless as it

15:45

was at that moment in time.

15:47

The authoritarian, the demagogue, it goes

15:50

away when they go away, and he will

15:52

go away. And we will... And they don't

15:54

have anybody that's as charismatic as him. He's

15:56

charismatic. There's no taking that away from him.

15:58

It's a television star. I'm an optimist about

16:00

all of that. I'm so glad you are.

16:02

And I believe in it. I believe. So

16:05

let me first say, you know

16:07

George is on Broadway. That's why his

16:09

hair is black. Yeah. Okay. I

16:11

just felt, because when I looked, I

16:13

thought, uh -oh. But then

16:15

I was reminded. So I guess

16:18

the question is, you know, what

16:20

do you think of what they saying? Well, as much

16:22

as I'd like to take $5 ,000 and have a baby

16:24

with George Cleary. There

16:28

you go. I must disagree with

16:30

him. I have to disagree with him.

16:33

Because I was around during those days

16:35

and I remember exactly what happened.

16:37

They were assassinating leaders of the country,

16:39

Martin Luther King, John Kennedy, Robert

16:41

Kennedy, et cetera. There was a tremendous

16:43

discord in the country. People were

16:46

rioting against the Vietnam War. My

16:48

husband now had to go into the

16:50

National Guard. It was a terrible time

16:52

for people. And that is true. And

16:54

we did get through that, but right

16:56

now, We're talking about

16:58

the lack of a constitutional

17:01

republic. We're talking about no checks

17:03

and balances. We're talking about

17:05

the fact that half the country

17:07

watches fake news. We're

17:09

talking about the fact that the

17:11

Republicans at that time got

17:13

rid of Nixon and the Republicans

17:15

were not complicit in this

17:17

charade that's going on with Trump

17:19

right now and just rubber

17:21

stamping every illegal thing that he

17:23

does. So that's why we

17:25

survived it because the... the

17:28

country held up in those days. It

17:30

is not holding up now. So, George,

17:32

I still love you, but you're wrong.

17:36

I agree with you.

17:39

In general, I'm not a glass half

17:41

empty person. I try to be pretty

17:43

optimistic, but I am also a realist.

17:45

And to your point, Joy, we are

17:47

in the middle of a constitutional crisis.

17:49

I don't care what anybody says. And

17:51

there are facts to back that up.

17:54

There's been a benchmark survey. US based

17:56

professors rate the performance of American democracy

17:58

on a scale from zero, which is

18:00

a complete dictatorship to 100, which is

18:02

a perfect democracy at this point. in

18:05

Trump's second term, that figure

18:07

is now 55. So So

18:09

on scale of five. Hey, nine glasses

18:11

have four as I see it. It's

18:13

55, but if you think about it,

18:15

the indicators of a democratic performance, including

18:17

whether or not the government interferes with

18:19

the press, punishes political opponents, whether the

18:21

legislature and the judiciary can check executive

18:23

authority, it's not happening. But he couldn't

18:25

get away with it because the Republican

18:27

party stops him. Exactly. That's the difference.

18:29

I don't have much to add to

18:31

this other than I went to the

18:33

opening of Good Night and Good Luck,

18:35

and it's exquisite, and it's an important

18:37

story for our time, because it talks

18:40

about Edward R. Murrow, and him pushing

18:42

back on McCarthyism, so it's an expensive

18:44

ticket, but if you can see it,

18:46

I recommend it. I have to believe

18:48

that you always say, life cycles, we

18:50

get through this stuff. I can't exist

18:52

or live if tomorrow's doomsday, so regardless

18:54

of what's happening, everything I've learned in

18:56

history from this point on says we

18:58

get through things. I believe in the

19:00

country, I believe we're watching. some things

19:02

hold from courts to there are people

19:04

speaking up now, there are people protesting.

19:06

Those are all indicators that the country

19:08

is working. It may not feel like

19:10

it right now. Don't misunderstand me. I'm

19:12

an optimist and I believe - That

19:14

was your optimist? Yes. I'm

19:17

an optimist, I am, because I believe

19:19

that we will eventually pull ourselves out

19:21

of this, but we have to keep

19:23

speaking it. Well that's where I

19:25

we have to keep resisting. You know what,

19:27

there were millions of people marching. of the weekend,

19:29

I could not see any of it on

19:32

any of the TV show. And

19:34

I will also say this, this

19:36

is a taste for, oh God.

19:38

Go ahead, knock it out.

19:40

Really, this is a taste of what

19:42

it's like to be other in this

19:44

country. People are recognizing

19:46

what it is like to

19:48

be other because now we're

19:50

all other. So. That's

19:53

right. We must.

19:56

Make sure we continue to get

19:58

out and speak out and resist. Because

20:01

unless we do this together, we're

20:03

going down, y 'all. Unless we stand

20:05

up and say, hey, I'm looking out

20:07

for you. You're looking out for

20:09

me. Because this is our country. We

20:11

beat it up. We can say

20:14

what we need to say. And right

20:16

now, it's still legal to have

20:18

an opinion in the United States of

20:20

America. We'll be right back. Thanks,

20:30

Georgia Senator Raphael Warnock has

20:32

been speaking out on the Senate

20:35

floor and taking it to

20:37

the streets to stand alongside Americans

20:39

protesting the policies of current

20:41

administration. He also has a

20:43

message for the next generation in his

20:45

new book. We're

20:48

in this together, Leo's

20:50

Lunchbox. So please

20:52

welcome back Senator Raphael Warnock.

21:23

Welcome back to the view.

21:25

much. And you're a political

21:27

leader. You're also a

21:30

pastor at Dr. King's former pulpit

21:32

at the Ebenezer Baptist Church, and

21:34

we just lost another great spiritual

21:36

leader in Pope Francis. And

21:38

I know that you also had the chance

21:40

to meet with him last year, and you shared

21:42

a laugh, because he's a cat who liked

21:44

to laugh a lot. Is it funny? It's funny,

21:47

huh? Tell us it. Hello,

21:51

everybody. So,

21:54

yeah, I met with the Pope

21:56

a year ago, almost to

21:58

the day. Someone looked it up,

22:00

I think it was a year before his death,

22:02

and I was deeply honored to meet with

22:04

him in the Vatican. He's someone that I have

22:06

admired a long time. He's

22:08

a great spiritual leader who

22:11

centered the things that Jesus

22:13

centered, the poor, the marginalized, the

22:16

mal -treated, and he was committed to that.

22:18

And I think it had something to do

22:20

with the fact that he's the first Pope

22:22

from the global south. And

22:24

so he took the sensibilities of the

22:26

world's poor to his work. And we

22:28

had a great meeting. We

22:31

talked about the relationship

22:33

between faith and politics.

22:36

Here I was, a pastor all of

22:38

my life, suddenly finding myself in this

22:40

world elected to the Senate. And

22:42

so I said, I think I know who knows something about faith

22:44

and politics. And so he

22:46

was kind enough to give me

22:49

an audience with him. We had

22:51

a great conversation. He

22:53

had a wonderful sense of humor. When

22:55

we got ready to go, he said, let's

22:57

pray. And I thought, great, the

23:00

pope is going to pray for me. He said, you

23:02

pray first. Then

23:06

he said,

23:09

pray for me. Don't pray against me. And he

23:11

and I had a big laugh about that. And

23:13

then we prayed together. I prayed for him, his

23:16

health, his ministry, and his work.

23:18

He's such an important voice. He

23:20

prayed for me. We prayed for

23:22

the world. And that

23:24

was something I'll never

23:27

forget. Wow, amazing. He was

23:29

great. Yeah, great

23:31

man. You are

23:33

a pastor, of course, and you

23:35

call yourself a Matthew 25 Christian. And

23:37

for those that don't know that verse, that

23:39

verse says, I was a stranger and

23:41

you welcomed me in. But

23:43

you have warned that right now

23:45

in this country, people are trying to

23:47

weaponize despair. And we

23:49

are seeing migrants being sent to

23:51

a notorious foreign prison without any semblance

23:54

of due process. We

23:56

have Kilmer, Abrego Garcia,

23:59

a Maryland man sent to that very

24:01

same prison based on an administrative

24:03

error. And now the government here says

24:05

we can't get him back. What

24:09

do you make of this

24:11

country welcoming in

24:13

strangers. Well, I

24:15

have to tell you as I am

24:17

a Matthew 25 Christian, and Jesus said,

24:19

the way you treat the folks who

24:21

are on the margins, that that is

24:23

the asset test of your spirituality. That's

24:25

what that text is all about. And

24:28

as I witness

24:30

and watch what's

24:33

happening, and in

24:35

a lot of it, it seems that cruelty

24:37

is the point. Yeah. And

24:39

so when I watch this

24:42

and hear it coming from

24:44

folks who have a lot

24:46

to say about their Christian

24:48

identity, I have to

24:50

say as a pastor, whoopie, that I

24:52

think Jesus is the biggest victim

24:54

of identity theft. Yeah,

24:58

yeah. Because I don't

25:00

know who this Jesus

25:02

is, they're talking about. You

25:06

know, the Jesus I know

25:08

was born in a barrio

25:10

called Bethlehem. Raised

25:12

in a ghetto called Nazareth. He

25:16

was an immigrant, smuggled into Egypt.

25:19

And in his very first sermon, he

25:21

sent it to the poor. It's good

25:23

news to the poor, deliverance to

25:25

the captives, preaching the year of

25:27

the Lord's freedom. And so that's something

25:29

that I try to do and

25:31

embody in my work as a United

25:33

States Senator. I

25:35

think that our country is going

25:37

through what I call a kind

25:39

of soul weariness. I know folks

25:41

say we're in a constitutional crisis.

25:43

We're definitely in a spiritual crisis. And

25:46

you know how sometimes you wake up

25:48

in the morning and you just feel

25:50

bad. You can't quite put your finger

25:52

on it. I think after

25:55

years of COVID, 20

25:57

years of what felt like

25:59

endless war, and then piling

26:01

on top of all of

26:03

that, demagogues who traffic

26:05

in division because they have

26:07

no vision. I think the weight

26:09

of it all, it's got

26:11

folks on the left and the

26:13

right. Just kind of feeling

26:16

soul weary, like a low grade

26:18

fever. And what we need

26:20

is leaders who can remind us of

26:22

who we are when we stand together. I

26:24

still believe in this country. I

26:26

still believe in the heart of

26:28

what we seek to represent. E

26:30

pluribus unum out of many one.

26:34

and the COVID pandemic reminded us

26:36

of the ways in which

26:38

we're all connected. If my neighbor

26:40

got the virus, that meant

26:42

that I'm potentially imperiled. That doesn't

26:44

make my neighbor my enemy.

26:46

Actually it means that I have

26:49

an enlightened self -interest. in

26:51

the well -being of my neighbor. Her healthcare is good

26:53

for my health. And so that's the kind of

26:55

spirit that I try to bring to my work.

26:57

No, Senator, I wanna ask you about the economy,

26:59

because you sit on the Senate Banking Committee. Since

27:02

Donald Trump sparked this trade war, the

27:04

Dow is set to open at the lowest

27:06

April since the Great Depression. People are

27:08

feeling the economic hardship of these tariffs. Yet

27:11

polling suggests that more Americans still

27:13

trust Trump on the economy rather

27:15

than Democrats. How do you think

27:17

you turn that tide and convince

27:19

voters otherwise that they should trust

27:21

the Democrats? And why? Look, I'll

27:23

let the pundits do the punditry.

27:25

And I have to tell you,

27:28

maybe because I'm a pastor, I'm

27:30

focused on the people, not the

27:32

politicians. So I'm not, I'm not

27:34

worried. You

27:36

know, I'm a part of a party,

27:38

but you know, I think Americans

27:40

sitting at home thinking about the price

27:42

of groceries, which is going up

27:45

as a result of these tariffs. and

27:49

they're watching the coverage. And

27:51

so often our news coverage in this country,

27:54

it's framed in such a way that

27:56

the politics is actually about the politicians.

27:58

Who's up, who's down, who's in, who's

28:00

out. I think folks sitting at home

28:02

trying to pay their bills asking, who

28:04

cares? Who's thinking

28:07

about me? And who's

28:09

gonna be focused on trying to lower

28:11

my cost? So this

28:13

is why I'm focused

28:15

on, The work that

28:17

I'm doing, a couple weeks ago

28:19

I introduced the child tax credit.

28:22

I'm proud of the fact that when I went

28:24

into the Senate in 2021, we

28:26

passed the expanded child tax

28:28

credit, without which literally there's some

28:30

people too poor to get

28:32

it. And so we fixed

28:34

that in 2021. And when

28:37

we passed that piece of legislation, we

28:39

cut child poverty in this country by more

28:41

than 40%. Now I know that those

28:43

folks are watching he's saying, well, we didn't

28:45

feel it. Well, we only did

28:47

it for six months. Folks

28:49

were getting checks, they don't know who sent it, why

28:51

they got it. Can I tell you why you got

28:53

it? You got it because I won. It's

28:58

true. Yeah, hold on now, because

29:00

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29:02

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30:58

are back with Senator Ralph Walnut. Something just

31:00

ran through my head, I'll tell you at

31:03

the end. Sarah has a question. Yes, Senator,

31:05

let's talk about your new children's book. We're

31:07

in this together, Leo's Lunchbox.

31:10

Now, we understand it has some

31:12

divine inspiration. Tell us why

31:14

you wrote it and what it's about. Well,

31:16

it's a modern day story based

31:18

on the miracle of the loaves

31:20

and the fish, the feeding of

31:22

the 5 ,000. And

31:25

I preach these passages every

31:27

Sunday. I still lead my church.

31:29

I say to folks that I still return

31:31

to my pulpit every Sunday because I

31:33

don't want to spend all my time talking

31:35

to politicians. I'm afraid I might accidentally

31:37

become one. So this

31:40

book is about me teaching the

31:42

lessons that I want to teach to

31:44

my own children. I have an

31:46

eight -year -old daughter and a six -year -old

31:48

son. They're the brightest stars in

31:50

my universe. And...

31:55

This book

31:58

is about compassion.

32:00

It's about

32:02

kindness. About treating others

32:04

the way you want it. You

32:06

want to be treated. Leo is

32:08

a food insecure kid. And he's

32:10

tired of those bologna sandwiches. Every

32:13

single day. With that cheese. And

32:15

one day his mom gives him

32:17

a lunchbox and something special happens

32:19

in the classroom. based on

32:21

the miracle story in the gospels. And

32:24

the kids learned some lessons about sticking

32:26

up for one another. And I hope

32:28

we can pass those lessons on to

32:30

adults as they read the story to

32:32

children. Well, to that point, it's hard

32:34

to believe that. In today's America, one

32:36

in five American children don't know where

32:38

their next meal will come from. That's

32:40

right, one in five children. in five

32:42

children. Food insecure. And the most, as

32:44

she says, the richest country in the

32:46

world. It used to be, we'll see

32:48

how long that lasts. And the studies

32:50

show that when kids get breakfast at

32:52

school, they have better attendance, better behavior,

32:54

their math scores go points. Why would

32:56

they cut that? Because they don't want

32:58

that to happen. They don't want children

33:00

to eat or what? sighted. Who votes

33:02

for people like that? Right

33:04

to now. Well. People

33:09

who misunderstood what they were

33:11

facing voted for people. so?

33:13

Yeah. Well now they know.

33:15

And now they know. But now

33:17

we can say thanks to Senator

33:19

Ralph Warnock, the new book is

33:21

called We're In This Together, Leo's

33:23

Lunchbox, and it's available now. And

33:25

you can order it by scanning

33:27

the QR code on your screen.

33:30

And you know what y 'all?

33:32

You're so good, you're so present.

33:34

We love you so much, everyone

33:36

in our audience. Shanola

34:05

Hampton plays a PR specialist

34:07

who has a very unorthodox

34:09

way of finding missing people.

34:12

Season two is taking the

34:14

drama to a whole new

34:16

level when she finds out

34:18

that her former kidnapper, who

34:20

she turned the tables on,

34:23

has an accomplice helping

34:25

him get revenge. Take

34:27

a look. Jenny, what

34:30

happened, sweetie? She

34:34

asked us to call you. Poor thing

34:36

ingested rat poison. Rat poison? Jenny,

34:39

can you talk? Gabby,

34:41

I... I had a client.

34:44

A woman named Lena. Can

34:47

you give us a minute, please? I

34:50

met her at a bar

34:52

for drinks. But after a

34:54

few sips of wine, I

34:57

started to feel nauseous and

34:59

woozy. Lena took me

35:01

to the bathroom and I collapsed. begged

35:05

her to help me. Of course

35:08

she wouldn't. She's sending a message

35:10

to me. Welcome,

35:34

Shanella. Tell us about the show and what

35:36

initially drew you to the role. And why are

35:38

people giving other people rat poisoning? That's crazy.

35:40

Well, first of all, Whoopi did a great job

35:42

of telling about the show, so I don't

35:44

need to go back to there. But what drew

35:46

me to the show is I did a

35:48

show for a really long time called Shameless. I

35:54

don't know what it meant, but I knew I

35:56

wanted to do something with purpose. I met the

35:58

showrunner, NK, to be a director, and then she

36:00

said, oh, wait a minute, I have the show.

36:02

Told me the premise, so many people in underserved

36:04

communities don't get the media attention. I

36:06

was like, this is the show with purpose, so

36:08

it manifested itself in this way, and then there was

36:10

a man in the basement, and I was like,

36:12

sign me up! You're

36:16

very close with your co -star, Mark

36:18

Paul Gossler, also known as Zach

36:20

Morris from Save by the Bell. Now

36:22

in the show, he played your former

36:25

high school teacher and kidnapper. Yes. Important detail.

36:27

What was it like working together? Cause

36:29

I hear he likes to roast you. I

36:31

can't stand him. I don't know

36:33

where you got your information from that

36:35

we're close. Not true, no. Mark

36:37

Paul, he does things like, he's a stick

36:39

in the mud, let's be honest, and then

36:42

there's me. No, I'm just kidding, he's not.

36:44

But he really, he one time told

36:46

people that I auditioned or I got

36:48

a part in Ghostbusters because I was

36:51

wearing a jumper and the whole crew

36:53

believed it. He roasts me nonstop, but

36:55

we get along very, very well. I

36:57

do that to Sunny. She's the

36:59

sister I never asked for. Yeah,

37:01

never want it. You mentioned Shameless, which

37:03

we all loved you on. You played at

37:05

the Neighbor Veronica Fisher for 11 seasons.

37:07

Wow. And I understand that you admit that

37:09

success didn't come overnight for you. It

37:11

was more of a journey along the way.

37:14

So what did Shameless mean to your

37:16

career and what was your moment that you

37:18

were like, okay, I've made it? When

37:20

I was in graduate school, a woman came

37:22

and did a speech and she said

37:24

that it'll take 10 years, 10 years before

37:26

you make it. And I was like,

37:28

10 years, I'm 20, it's not gonna take

37:30

me 10 years. 10 years from the

37:32

moment that I went. to LA to when

37:34

I book shameless. That's how long

37:36

it actually took. And no, they didn't find me in

37:38

a coffee shop. And no, I wasn't on someone's sidewalk.

37:41

It was a lot of hustling. It was a lot

37:43

of tears. And it was a lot

37:45

of like being really, really sick from not getting

37:47

the part. But I always knew that this

37:49

was the calling on my life. I really did.

37:51

So you just persevere. So when I knew

37:53

I made it, I think was most recently when

37:55

Mark Paul and I presented at the Critics

37:57

Choice Awards. And you're there with all of your

37:59

peers and you walk out and my dad

38:01

is with me, my family. only is everything, okay,

38:03

so they come with me everywhere. And my

38:05

dad is with me and I'm walking out and

38:07

I'm like, oh, they know who I am

38:09

as well. She's made

38:11

it. You

38:14

were known as the Mama Bear

38:16

on set at Shameless. Did you take

38:18

anyone under your wing? How did

38:20

you get that name? Because I'm the

38:23

Mama Bear is everyone and I'm

38:25

still Mama Bear to this day. The

38:27

Shameless. We are still

38:29

a family to this day. It was such

38:31

one of those experiences that you don't really

38:33

get. We really are still close. Right when

38:35

I landed here in New York, Jeremy Allen

38:37

White was on my telephone. And

38:39

Steve Howie's my, so we're all

38:42

very close. Emma Rose Kinney

38:44

and Ethan, they were nine years old

38:46

when I met them. And I'm a

38:48

grown woman married, okay? No babies,

38:50

you're gonna be in this business. I'm

38:52

going to protect you. And you'll see that

38:54

often and throughout their life. I still

38:56

run it. All of them. Run everything

38:58

past me. No, may not buy that house. That's

39:00

right. So I heard that before you were a

39:02

big star, you were a bartender. Is that true?

39:04

Oh girl, yes. And big star, I don't know

39:06

about that. But bartender is a bag. And

39:09

they said he was a non -alcoholic bartender.

39:11

What does that mean? The bartender doesn't

39:13

drink. He serves drinks. That's right. Well, because

39:15

I don't drink at all. She doesn't

39:17

drink. Yes, but I don't drink at all.

39:19

I don't like the taste of it.

39:21

But oh, make a good drink and do

39:23

a martini shake when I do it.

39:25

I had a steak. Look at your moves.

39:28

We don't just, you see, the

39:30

thing about a bartender is you

39:32

are a therapist, you're a counselor.

39:34

I worked at this, we were

39:36

talking about not being found in

39:38

a coffee shop. I was bartending

39:40

for 11 years. I thought kids

39:42

grow up, that's divorces and remarriages.

39:44

So alcoholics. So many of those. All

39:47

the things. All the things. Well,

39:50

that was a good 10 years.

39:52

It was a years. Because it prepared

39:54

you. Yes, it did. And you

39:56

are where you're supposed to be. Thank

39:58

you. Yes, thank you so much.

40:01

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40:03

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41:29

okay, so I have a big announcement. Next

41:32

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41:34

Whoopi Goldberg will be joining the cast

41:36

of my off -Broadway play. My

41:39

first ex -husband to just one performance, because

41:41

she's too busy to do more. It's

41:43

going to be next Wednesday,

41:45

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41:47

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41:49

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41:52

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41:58

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42:00

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42:02

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42:06

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42:10

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42:12

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42:17

I don't have a real answer

42:19

for this, but Anna is on

42:21

our podcast today. Yeah. Where

42:23

I she? I don't know. Even though she's

42:25

not here. That's right. Well, she's here for

42:27

tomorrow. Oh, OK. So we want everybody to

42:29

have a great day, take a little time

42:31

to enjoy the view, and don't forget you're

42:33

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42:35

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Each man must make a personal

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commitment to excellence and to victory.

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Will be fulfilled on this iconic

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stage at Lambo. The perfect NFL

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track, the 2025 NFL Draft. Begins

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Thursday, April 24 at 8 p

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.m. Eastern on ESPN, ABC and

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NFL Network.