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Rep. Dingell On Trump Signing Relief Bill: ‘This Is A Down Payment’ | Stephanie Ruhle | MSNBC - YouTube
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so as the president debated whether or
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not to sign
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this bill over the holiday this message
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from one democrat
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it is christmas eve but
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it is not a silent night all
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is not calm for too many
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nothing is bright and for too many
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they are not sleeping peacefully i'd beg
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the president
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to know how many people in this country
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are scared
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fearful terror hungry
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and that we must get a bill done
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so that we are helping americans
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that was congresswoman debbie dangle
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from michigan
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and she is um joining me now
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congresswoman thanks so much for joining
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us on this happy holidays to you and
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yours by the way
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um that was an incredibly
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uh impassioned moment there
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in which you pled with the president to
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understand the plight of so many
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americans 14 million americans that were
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on the brink of losing unemployment
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insurance at that moment just a couple
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of days away
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so many food insecure in this country
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many of which i've i've
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interviewed on the air who don't
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necessarily know where their next meal
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is coming from and how they're going to
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pay
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their rent and throughout this time
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period the president held out throughout
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the weekend he was golfing as i was just
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talking to garrett hague
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instead of signing this bill into law do
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you think the president even
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understands or really cares for that
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matter about the plight of americans and
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what they're dealing with
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in this very moment economically so
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what i think is that he has no idea the
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kind of anxiety that he caused
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when we weren't going to get that code
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relief bill out and not
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only for the issues you just mentioned
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but the eviction
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uh moratorium expires at the end of this
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week and i had person after person
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calling me worried that they were going
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to be kicked out on the street
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you showed the restaurant owners i have
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restaurant about 10 restaurant owners
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that i talk
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almost every single day and they're not
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only worried about whether the
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restaurants are going to survive but
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they're employees
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and the anxiety this weekend on
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christmas weekend makes me sad
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i'm just i'm trying to bring us all back
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together
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he signed it today we will pass this
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additional 2 000 and
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if it does not pass on suspension we
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will bring it up under regular order i
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predict it will pass
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out the question is what's the united
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states senate going to do
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so so you did sign it and that's
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fantastic and a lot of americans waking
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up this morning are breathing a sigh of
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relief because hopefully that money is
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going to be in the mail over the next
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couple of weeks
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they're going to have to wait it out and
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that anxiety will build but it will be
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in the mail over the next couple of
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weeks that
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that said congresswoman why did it take
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so darn long right the last time we saw
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a bill passed was was in may
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we anticipated this was going to happen
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this is way three i mean let me just
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talk you through some numbers and you
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mentioned some of them you know the
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plight of so many americans 110 000
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restaurants
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have closed the service and industry is
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suffering suffering tremendously right
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now more than 8 million have fallen into
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poverty since then an estimated 50
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million americans are going to have
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experience food insecurity
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by the end of the year we knew this
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would happen
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why is it always the 11th hour
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especially it seems when we are up
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against a government
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shutdown it shouldn't be that way and we
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have been trying and everybody points
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fingers and says it was
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close it was mitch mcconnell here's what
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my hope is for 2021. it is unforgivable
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quite frankly that people have
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suffered as much as they have we did not
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have a national covet strategy
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as we go into 2021 i hope that all of us
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can look
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and try to find ways that we can work
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together more that we can stop this fear
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and this hatred and remember that united
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we can get a whole lot
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more done so there's this is a down
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payment
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what he signed yesterday over the
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weekend and what if god willing we get
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asked today and tomorrow through the
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senate it's a down payment
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we're going to have a president who
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understands that people are hurting
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he wants to work across the aisle he
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knows what compassion
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empathy kindness caring
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action are and will start to bring us
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together
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and i hope that that that is my wish for
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2021 that it won't take so long
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we compromise isn't a dirty word but
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that we need to remember
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our job in congress is delivered for the
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americans
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