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Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté

80s Grooves that Explained the News w/ Touré

Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté

Useful Idiots, LLC

News Commentary, Politics, News

4.64.5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to Youth FliDi, it's I'm one of your host Katie Halper.

0:08.3

And I'm Aaron Matti, Katie breaking news from the Youth FliDi at the universe on your show,

0:13.2

the Katie Halper show. You got to scoop the other day.

0:16.2

Indeed Aaron, indeed I did. And I interviewed a friend of show who's been on the show, although not

0:22.4

while you co-hosted, we'll have to get him back on the show. Brother Cornell West, who of course

0:26.8

is running for president, he was initially running with the MPP, the movement for People's Party.

0:33.5

And there was some pushback about that and let's see what he's saying now.

0:37.7

I wanted to ask you of course about your presidential run. And there's some exciting news I believe.

0:44.5

So last week Chris Hedges, friend of the show Chris Hedges, said during an event for Worker Strike

0:49.9

Back, which was organized by Shama Soent, he said that he wanted you to run as a green party candidate.

0:56.8

And you of course, when you announced you were with the movement for the People's Party, the MPP.

1:02.0

Do you have an update about this?

1:03.4

Oh yes, no one of that, that process is very much in movement and I look forward to it.

1:11.0

You know, I'll always have gratitude for the tremendous work of the volunteers of the People's

1:16.4

Party and so forth. But there was so much going on internally and therefore we had to be able

1:23.5

to keep the focus where it belongs. And so we're still, I am still deeply committed to a broad

1:29.9

co-illitional sensibility and the United Front. And so I invite variety of different organizations

1:36.4

and I'd include the People's Party. But I'm certainly moving in the, not just for, but

1:43.4

look forward to being a part of the nomination process of the green party. And I look forward to

1:49.2

being able to already be in a very rich conversation with my dear brother Barack and my dear sister

1:55.8

Stein, sister Jill and brother Ajamo, who I have great love and respect for. So that's true,

2:02.4

that is new. And which means when it comes to infrastructural institutions, much broader and deeper

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