Today I am joined by Abdul El-Said.

He is a physician and a former public health official running for U.S. Senate in Michigan.

He has spent his career eliminating medical debt and taking on corporate polluters.

And now he's running a campaign focused on ending corporate influence, which is music

to my ears and politics and standing up for the working people.

How are you?

Well, all things considered it has been a terrible weekend for the world.

I got to spend a little bit more time this

weekend with my little girls, so I'm sitting in the ambivalence of knowing that life is

a lot worse for a lot of folks. And you see the devastation of a girls' school that was

destroyed at the edge of our tax dollars. And at some points, you sort of think, how lucky am I to be able to spend time with my little girls?

So that's sort of where I'm living right now. Jennifer, how are you?

I mean, you know, it's the same thing. It's the split-screen life that we're dealing with as Americans.

You have all of these horrible things that the Trump regime is doing. And then you have the split

screen with your normal life, with your children, with your pets, with your family. And there's

always this moment, my son was in town visiting me from New York this past week and where it's

like, you know, all of these horrible things are happening, whether it be in Milwaukee or

whether it be in Iran.

And these egregious human rights violations that are taxpayer dollars and then sometimes

you're just insulated from it.

And it's very hard to manage and stay engaged.

I want to talk to you, obviously.

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