Ep. 366 - About our meeting with the Biden-Harris transition team

The Breakdown with Shaun King

The North Star

News, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 30 November 2020

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Happy holidays everybody. I wanted to take a few minutes today to unpack and explain the meeting we hosted with the Biden-Harris administration on mass incarceration and police violence. We've had several follow up meetings in the days since the meeting and are hopeful that some of our policy ideas will be integrated into their plans. I am cautiously optimistic. I understand that Biden is moderate, but we will move forward knowing that we did our best. Thank you to the hundreds of thousands of you who signed our petition and made countless phone calls to the transition team. We wouldn't have had the meeting without you.
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0:00.0	Happy holidays everybody. Glad to be back. We had the week off this past week.
0:05.0	And there was something huge that I wanted to tell you about, but we didn't get the chance.
0:09.0	And so now I want to take an opportunity to tell you about the meeting that our team at the grassroots law project
0:16.0	had with the transition team of the incoming Biden Harris administration.
0:22.0	It was a productive and insightful meeting.
0:27.0	We're still tempering our hopes based on some of the things that we heard and saw.
0:35.0	We have had follow-up meetings with the transition team as well.
0:39.0	And those meetings have also been productive.
0:42.0	And we're talking about issues of justice, of holding police accountable, of reducing the footprint and size of mass incarceration.
0:52.0	I want to tell you how the meeting went and give you some details. This is Sean King and you are listening to...
0:58.0	The Breakdown.
1:00.0	The Breakdown.
1:04.0	The Breakdown.
1:06.0	The Breakdown.
1:08.0	The Breakdown.
1:10.0	Before I jump into the meeting, I want to give a major, major shout out to the hundreds of thousands of you
1:25.0	who signed our smart petition at BidenJusticeDemands.com to all of you who sent emails and made thousands and thousands of phone calls
1:38.0	to the members of the Biden Harris transition team.
1:41.0	Thank you.
1:42.0	Of course, our job is not over because at this point, obviously the Biden Harris administration is not official.
1:52.0	They have not been sworn in yet.
1:54.0	But as you see, they are hiring key leaders in all types of departments.
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