What was 1-6 like for you? What happened to you that day?

When I saw the noose hanging up there, it was really strange for me because I just worked with

Lee Daniels on the United States versus Billy Holliday, where she was singing, you know,

strange fruit based on the lynchings that she has seen.

And then I also thought about, I just read the book The Devil, you know.

And that, the lynchons that he talked about, the 5,000 or so lensions before the Civil War.

And I'm thinking and looking at that noose and looking at them, I said, well, they say that that's supposed to be for Pence, that they're going to hang him. But I wonder, I wonder, first of all, if they're going

hang a white man. And secondly, I wonder how many of us they would hang if we showed up and got in

the way. I just thought that, yeah, certainly I would have been killed.

Maxine Waters has been an incredibly important congressperson for a very long time.

I could not wait to talk to her about raising the minimum wage, getting COVID relief out to people,

and just how she is able to find success as a congressperson. Couldn't wait to do this

conversation. It's Congresswoman Maxine Waters on Toray show.

One of the things that people have been talking about since the beginning of this is what are we going to do for renters?

How are people who are renters going to survive when a lot of them are not able to work or they're working at far lesser wages?

And a lot of homeowners have been helped. We were able to pause our mortgage

for three to six months or more last year. And now you're trying to get something done for

renters. What have you been able to do? And how did you do it? Did you have, because I know

there's horse training that goes on, did you have to give away certain things to get the protection for renters?

Well, thank you very much for asking the question,

because rental assistance has been a priority of mine.

And I started out when we first had the CARES Act,

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