42 - Right Now (w/ Jeffrey Sachs & Ari Rabin-Havt)
Hear the Bern
Bernie 2020
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🗓️ 28 January 2020
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
With less than a week until Iowa caucuses, Briahna sits down with economist Jeffrey Sachs to talk about the decades-long project to ward off popular, commonsense policies like Medicare for All. Then, deputy campaign manager Ari Rabin-Havt offers a glimpse behind the scenes of a Bernie rally.
Jeffrey Sachs on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jeffdsachs
Ari's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/onajourneywithbernie/
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| 0:00.0 | I'm going to ask you to be open to getting to know the human being to your left and your right. |
| 0:06.1 | The human being that you've been fighting for, the human being that has been fighting for you, |
| 0:10.8 | the human beings who form the most powerful movement in the history of electoral politics. |
| 0:17.5 | If you've ever wondered where your next meal might come from, please squeeze your hand. |
| 0:22.6 | If you've ever been harassed or cat called as you walk down the street, please squeeze your hand. |
| 0:28.6 | If you've ever fallen ill and self-medicated or ignored it because the bill might hurt more than the ill, please squeeze your hand. |
| 0:36.6 | If you've lost a job, please squeeze your hand. If you've lost a job, please squeeze your hand. |
| 0:40.8 | If you've ever been assaulted, please squeeze your hand. |
| 0:45.7 | If you've ever sat in a Planned Parenthood or a free clinic waiting alone, please squeeze |
| 0:49.9 | your hand. |
| 0:52.0 | If you've ever been pulled over by a police officer and prayed to God that you'd make |
| 0:55.5 | it home, please squeeze your hand. |
| 0:58.7 | If you believe that there is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come, that |
| 1:03.0 | the long arc of the universe always bends towards justice, please squeeze a hand. |
| 1:08.4 | If you are ready to work every day as a creator of your life, to do everything |
| 1:12.6 | in your power to build a political revolution that will shake the very foundation of this |
| 1:16.6 | empire, please squeeze a hand. Now raise them. Now repeat after me, power. |
| 1:25.6 | Transformation. |
| 1:28.1 | And miracles. |
| 1:30.2 | We wanted. |
| 1:32.0 | We need it. |
| 1:33.6 | We need it. |
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