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Toure Show

Maxine Waters - I'm in the House

Toure Show

DCP Entertainment

Society & Culture, Arts, Performing Arts

4.8880 Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Throwback Episode: Maxine Waters is one of the most powerful and charismatic people in Congress. But how do you get important things passed when Republicans want to obstruct everything? We dig into how she fights and the legislation she cares most about. And her experiences on 1/6 when domestic terrorists had her afraid that she would be killed. For even more of me and Maxine go to Patreon.com/toureshow and subscribe for just $5 a month and get Friday Patreon exclusives. Your support help us keep this show going! Patreon.com/toureshow Instagram: @toureshow Twitter: @toure Toure Show Original Episode 225 Host & Writer: Touré Senior Producer: Jackie Garofano Assistant Producer: Adell Coleman Editor: Ryan Woodhall Photographers: Chuck Marcus and Shanta Covington Booker: Claudia Jean The House: DCP Entertainment  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Support the show: https://www.dcpofficial.com/toureshow See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:31.8

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0:38.9

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0:45.0

ahead and get involved. Grab a Coke, drink it in. What was 1-6 like for you?

1:05.5

What happened to you that day?

1:07.6

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

1:16.6

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

1:22.6

strange fruit based on the lynchings that she had seen.

1:26.6

And then I also thought about, I just read the book

1:29.8

The Devil, you know, and that the lynchings that he talked about, the 5,000 or so lensions

1:35.5

before the Civil War. And I'm thinking, and looking at that noose and looking at them, I said,

1:41.0

well, they say that that's supposed to be for Pence, that they're going to hang him.

1:45.0

But I wonder, I wonder, first of all, if they're going to 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.

2:00.8

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

2:06.2

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

2:12.3

and just how she is able to find success as a congressperson.

2:20.8

Couldn't wait to do this conversation. It's Congresswoman Maxine Waters on Touré 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?

2:38.0

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?

2:47.7

And a lot of homeowners have been helped.

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