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On One with Angela Rye

Political Innovators NOT Disruptors: America, meet #TheSQUAD!

On One with Angela Rye

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4.83.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2019

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Angela sat down for a candid conversation with the Squad—Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley, and Rashida Tlaib during an NAACP town hall. And as to be expected, they dropped BARS. This is a must listen!

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0:00.0

We're all my children at a light like we're one in the city but steady striving to do right my people the warriors

0:06.0

All we know is the fight for Prince they see God and everything got right here. Good evening ladies and gentlemen

0:12.0

It's a joy to be here in this room. I am thrilled to be having in concert with the oldest civil rights organization in the country the NAACP

0:24.0

Which does the work for all of us even when we don't know it let's give it a hand for the NAACP give a big hand

0:31.0

I am so excited. I have not been this excited all year folks. Okay, let me tell you why

0:40.0

This week literally this week I spent some time with someone who's like a little little brother to me you jean brown where's you jean

0:50.0

We are trying to figure out a good town hall to help the NAACP plan and I said let me tell you there are some folks that I really really want to sit down with

0:59.0

And two of them have become good sister friends of mine and so I bothered excuse the language Mr. Chairman the hell out of them

1:08.0

To make this conversation happen and right before I came up on the stage they reminded me of that they've lost the little sleep because I was serious about making this happen

1:17.0

And so I want to take this opportunity to introduce to some of you but just to reintroduce to most of you who we call in Congress the squad

1:30.0

Yes, the squad and so first up we have Rashida to leave the Congresswoman from the great state of Michigan representing the 13th district

1:46.0

Yes, Detroit in the building. Thank you Rashida. Thank you. I think she's sitting right here is that fine we're taking that seat. Yes, great. Next up we have my good friend from the great state of Minnesota representing the 5th district that is Congresswoman Ilhan Omar

2:07.0

I must be doing this out of order, but that's okay. We're gonna get there and also another good friend of mine. She is so powerful when she speaks you'll hear more from her in just a moment

2:23.0

The Congresswoman from the great state of Massachusetts 7th district Congresswoman Ayanna Presley

2:30.0

And last but certainly not least many of you all have seen her in a Netflix special you watch her from near and a far the Congresswoman from the great state of New York the 14th district Alexandria Ocasio Cortez

2:52.0

Thank you so much. Ladies, we can sit. All right. Hi ladies. Thank you all so much for being here. So what I want to do first is fix the mic. Please. Okay. So I want to start with rapid fire in part because we just had this little that zone you all still awake out there.

3:18.0

I'm excited. Okay. So I want to start with rapid fire. I'm gonna go to each of you. You have to I'm not gonna tell you which one I'm gonna go to each of you real quick. You can't think about it. No pontificating first answer that comes in my. Are you ready? Go.

3:32.0

Rashida last song you listen to. I don't know. I don't know what it was. Oh god. Okay. First song comes in my go. I don't know what I wasn't listening any music lately. I haven't been listening music. I haven't. I know. But you know what I have like.

3:52.0

I don't know. A lot of people think I'm a millennial. But I grew up I'm 43. So I listened to a lot of 80s music like smooth criminal. Okay. I love all of the old. Okay. You don't got to be a millennial to listen to those. I know. But I always feel like people think I like I know that no I'm still very much 80s 90s girl. Okay. Here we go. You're ready. I got a first kiss. How are you?

4:22.0

I'm completely fine with that because you know. All right. I was eighth grade. His name was Paul. Oh, I don't do it. He has freckles. He also got me.

4:50.0

Don't feel bad. They all come into those DMs now. But I love it. Okay. Okay. Very, very happily married to the movement and my black diamond shot out to Conan Harris. All right. Yeah. We love Conan. All right. Yeah. This is a tough group to do. Rappet fire with. But let me see. Okay. I'll show what you binge watch. Oh.

5:19.0

Right now or. Yeah. That's fine. Okay. Black lists. Black lists. Okay. All right. All right. I like things that are just too much because my life is too much. Okay.

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