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Take a seat. We have got a great show

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for you tonight. Joe Biden

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is building the wall, we learned where

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Beyonce got her groove, and Donald

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Trump has found a spooky way to avoid

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paying taxes. Plus, the Secretary of Transportation,

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Pete Buds himself is joining us on the show

1:05

tonight, which means I'm getting a bunch of my parking tickets

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cancer. So figous,

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people, let's stup into today's headlines.

1:18

All right, let's do it. Let's do

1:20

it. Let's get into it. Oh, before we get into the big

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stories, let's catch up on a few other

1:25

things that are going on. First of all, congratulations

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to someone out there for winning one point

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three billion dollars in

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the megamillions Loto you

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boo boo. I don't know what that sound was. It's

1:38

the biggest lottery pay out ever to a

1:41

single winner. And

1:43

it's wild to me that we just gave a billion dollars

1:45

to someone who has proven that they're bad with money.

1:47

Why are you playing the lottery? It's

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a terrible investment unless you win. Now,

1:56

because Illinois has a law allowing lottery

1:58

winners to remain anonymous, we might never know who

2:00

won this money, but I will say this, if your next

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door neighbor comes to your cook out in a private jet,

2:05

it's probably done. Or

2:07

Kaylie Jenna, you never know. Meanwhile, in

2:10

some shocking entertainment news, Beyonce

2:13

isn't perfect. Yeah, there's

2:15

the part where the tomatoes hit me. I know, I know well

2:18

because this morning, um Queen Bee said

2:20

that she would remove the words spas

2:23

from one of her new songs because she didn't

2:25

realize that it was ablest. And

2:27

if you're having a bit of deja vu, it's because this

2:29

comes just a few weeks later, Right, a few

2:31

weeks after Lizzo had to come out and

2:33

say the same thing. She had to cut the same word from a song,

2:36

which honestly must be so exciting

2:38

for Lizzo, Right, Yeah, She's probably

2:41

like, oh, my god, Beyonce sampled

2:43

my standard. It's

2:46

amazing. We should do you a collab, or like an no tap

2:48

apology, we should do this. Oh

2:51

and there's another pop star in trouble. This is a crazy

2:53

story. Shakira could be facing

2:55

eight years in prison for

2:58

tax fraud. Yeah. The Spanish

3:00

government says that she dodged seventeen

3:03

million dollars in taxas by pretending

3:06

to live in the Bahamas when her real

3:08

residence was in Barcelona, Bahamas,

3:10

Barcelona. So

3:13

yeah, it turns out you cannot claim your

3:15

residence as whenever, wherever. That doesn't

3:17

work. A good

3:19

lesson for everybody here and

3:22

in labor news. In labor news,

3:24

this is one of the weirdest stories ever. A Chick fil

3:26

A in North Carolina got into trouble

3:29

for asking for volunteers to

3:32

work the drive through window. Right. And

3:34

the reason it was volunteers is because instead of paying the

3:36

workers, the restaurants said they would give them

3:39

five free meals for every

3:41

one hour shift that

3:44

they worked. Yeah, and

3:46

I will say it, really, they'll show you how good Chick fil

3:48

A is because all of you paused for a second when I said

3:50

this before getting angry. You're like, wait, would

3:52

I know? No,

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doesn't include the waffle fright, No, pooh

3:59

pooh. So

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that's what's going on, a bunch of random things. But anyway, let's

4:04

move on to some of the biggest news stories of

4:06

the day, starting with an update on Joe

4:09

Biden, the President, whose approval rating

4:11

is going through its own recession. As you all

4:13

know, the President had COVID

4:15

and then recovered from it last week, but then

4:18

after testing negative, the White House doctor is

4:20

reporting that Biden is now testing positive

4:23

again with what they call a rebound

4:25

infection. It's definitely not the

4:27

rebound Biden was hoping for. You know, come

4:30

on, Jago and President the pomber rebounds,

4:33

you know what I mean, there's no joke mcmar so.

4:37

Anyway, the President is back in isolation again,

4:39

but the White House says don't worry, he's feeling fine

4:41

and he will be working the entire time. Although

4:44

many of his supporters might not love

4:46

his new project, President Biden says

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work can resume on former President Trunk's

4:51

border wall. The White House wants four

4:54

gaps in the fence to be filled in near you, Arizona.

4:57

It's all was one of the busiest crossings for undocumented

4:59

Ima Grant. It's another reversal of policy

5:02

for the president who vowed not to add

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to his predecessor's efforts in any

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way on that project. There will not be

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another foot of wall constructed

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on my administration. That's right,

5:13

there will be many feet of wall. Ha ha,

5:16

gotcha. But

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yes, it looks like Joe Biden is

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completing Donald Trump's unfinished

5:25

business. So if

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I was Mike Pence right now, I'd be nervous

5:30

as hell. I'd

5:33

be watching out. You

5:38

know, you don't how it's enough. What I know about the story

5:40

is how Fox doesn't know what to do with these

5:43

kinds of stories, right because

5:45

they want the wall, but they also hate Joe

5:47

Biden. You know, like, did you see

5:49

what Biden is doing? He

5:51

wasn't He was against the wall, but now he's building it.

5:53

I guess we have to vote for him. How does this work? But

5:57

you do have to admit it is confusing, right

5:59

because Biden, he spent what four years

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railing against the wall. He was like, this wall is fascist,

6:04

is racist, and it's un American, and

6:06

now we're gonna have it. Patches up for no time, folks, We're gonna

6:09

fix up this wall. We're

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gonna fix it all up now, Okay. The reason

6:13

the reason the Biden administration gave for building Trump's

6:16

wall in these sections of Arizona is

6:18

because they're saying it's dangerous

6:20

for migrants to cross the river there,

6:23

right, and so they want to put up a wall to

6:25

stop the people from crossing, which

6:28

you have to admit is a little weird because

6:31

now they're saying that walls

6:34

do stop people from crossing.

6:37

Yeah, but they're only doing it here because

6:39

they want to make it safer, right, because

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the river is super dangerous, so they want people

6:43

to try a cross here other parts, I guess,

6:47

although if you really wanted to make crossing a river safer,

6:49

then why wouldn't you just build a bridge? It's

6:52

the batting the wall. None of them makes

6:54

sense. They none

6:56

of them makes sense, you

6:59

know why? Or why? Because

7:02

it's bullshit, that's why. Yeah,

7:06

it doesn't make sense. And look, I can't say it

7:08

for certain, but it seems like the only

7:10

reason they're building a wall in these sections

7:13

is because these sections could affect Democratic

7:15

Senator Mark Kelly, who's running for

7:17

re election in Arizona, and he's been

7:19

pushing for these sections to be filled. Right

7:22

when you see it through that lens, it makes a lot more sense.

7:25

Migrants sneaking into Arizona, that's

7:27

whatever, but Republicans sneaking into the Senate. You gotta shut

7:29

that ship down. And

7:32

either way, either

7:34

way, I hope because

7:37

he's one of those things that can bring America together. You

7:39

know, this is one of those moments where people can unite

7:42

because when you think about a Trump and Biden have

7:44

more in common than we think. They

7:46

both want the wall filled in, they

7:49

both have shady sons, and they both

7:51

have close companions who require annual radise

7:53

shots. It's a beautiful, beautiful

7:56

things to see Briton

7:59

and Trump. Oh.

8:03

Speaking of Trump, the

8:07

Tangerine Dream is back in the news. We

8:10

yet another scandal, because this is one

8:12

of the wildest things ever because remember how his

8:14

wife, Ivana passed away, right,

8:16

really sad stories passed away. Well, it

8:18

turns out the Donald may

8:20

have managed to turn even that into

8:24

a scam. Ivanna Trump, the

8:26

first wife of President Trump, has been laid

8:28

to rest in an unusual location near

8:31

the first hole at President Trump's golf

8:33

club in Bedminster, New Jersey.

8:35

The reason is unclear, but According

8:37

to Insider, operating a cemetery

8:40

on the golf course will allow President Trump

8:42

to avoid paying taxes on the land. Wow

8:47

wow, wow wow

8:51

wow. A

8:54

lot of people say I'll pay taxes

8:56

over my dead body. Trump means it to

9:00

someone else's body. And

9:02

even for him, this feels like a step too far. I don't care

9:04

what anyone says like I. I wouldn't

9:06

even laugh at that as a joke. If someone said to me Donald

9:08

Trump's ex wife died, He's probably gonna bury her

9:10

on his golf course to save on taxes, I'll be

9:12

like, Yo, that's not cool, man, that's not cool. But

9:15

it turns out Trump was like, wait, wait, say more,

9:17

say more. I'm gonna send this to

9:19

my account and keep going. But

9:24

this lady shows you it's

9:26

how strange the tax system can be.

9:29

Like, all this tax break does is insensivize

9:31

you to be a widow who

9:34

came up with this. It always feels like the law was

9:36

written by a serial killer. It's just like, there should

9:38

be a law that if you bury

9:40

a body in your yard, you don't have to

9:42

pay taxes anymore. I

9:45

was like, yeah, the the senator whose interns

9:47

keep disappearing makes a good point. The motion passes. Good

9:49

point, good point, it's ridiculous.

9:51

All right, that's it for the headlines. But to

9:54

pull we go to a break. It's time to check in on the weather. Foc

9:56

off without very own dassi light like everybody

10:02

why you want it? Could see? So

10:05

what's happening? What's happening? The weather calmed

10:08

down? What's the what's the weather looking like? Oh man,

10:10

it is all blue skies and sunshine.

10:13

For whoever won the one point three billion

10:16

jackpot, I'll tell you that. God,

10:18

I I wonder who. I

10:21

wonder who she is. I

10:26

mean, it could be any of us, any of us in this

10:28

room right now. One might even wonder

10:30

why she came to work today, right

10:33

are you? Are you saying you won the lottery?

10:37

Look, I'm saying the winner has chosen

10:39

to be anonymous. You know, in many

10:42

ways they're building a wall

10:44

between them and us knowing.

10:47

But whoever she is, she

10:49

probably has enough money to buy her boss a new car.

10:52

Wait wait, wait,

10:54

so you did want you

10:57

won the lottery? As saying, I don't know? I

11:00

don't know, did I? Trevor? Who knows?

11:02

Anyway? By the way, that Avana story

11:04

is so crazy being laid

11:07

to rest on his golf course. God,

11:09

I feel for all of Trump's wives, and even

11:11

in the afterlife, they still have to

11:14

deal with his balls coming at them.

11:24

I love as God let her rest.

11:26

Although I will say tax moves like this

11:28

are very very common among the ultra

11:31

wealthy, something I've been reading up on recently.

11:33

For no particular reason. I bought

11:35

an island. So anyway,

11:39

so you're saying that you did win the lost what's coming on here? Did

11:41

you? That's Trevor, that's

11:43

ridiculous. Although I

11:45

will say I'm feeling very generous

11:47

tonight, which is why I have a special announcement

11:50

for the audience. Everyone

11:52

in this audience, I am sending all

11:55

of your kids to college,

11:58

Yes, all

12:02

of them, all

12:04

of them, even the underachievers,

12:06

all of them. I'm talking room board,

12:09

iPads, the good drugs, all

12:11

of it. Because

12:15

and maybe you saw this coming, I'm

12:17

just gonna go ahead and say it. I have the winning ticket here.

12:19

It is right here, right here. Can we get can

12:21

we get a close up? That

12:24

is it? No?

12:29

No, don't don't care

12:31

for that day. That's that's not that's

12:33

not a real ticket. That is it? That is the real ticket,

12:36

Trevor, it is absolutely a d percent

12:38

real. You can tell because it says not fake. It

12:40

is definitely real. And you're not going to blow

12:42

this for me, So back me up here blowing

12:45

anything. The winner is in someone

12:47

in Illinois. That's Look,

12:50

someone has to come forward. No

12:52

one has come forward yet, so there's a window of opportunity.

12:55

Look, I can cut you in on this if you

12:57

just act cool. I'm not. I'm

13:00

in. There's no acting cool. I think that no one's going to be

13:02

fooled by that. Oh my god, come on, really, you're going to do

13:04

this to me, You're gonna do this to then

13:06

their children. Okay,

13:10

fine, guess what, audience. None of

13:12

your kids are going to college?

13:15

Yeah, none of them

13:17

because of this man right here.

13:20

This man. Don't be fooled by

13:22

these dimples. He does not believe

13:25

in dreams. He's a dream rusher.

13:27

That makes no sense. You're the one who promised the

13:29

thing. By the way, Trevor, you are not invited

13:32

to my island. You didn't actually buy

13:34

an island. I actually did. It's amazing

13:36

what you can buy with a credit card. Oh my god, I'm so

13:40

so much debt. I'm

13:43

gonna have to see if Chick fil A is still hiring volunteers.

13:46

All right, Disney like everybody,

13:50

and you put yourself in the smith. Don't go away because

13:52

off of the break would Junior will tell us where Drake

13:55

and Beyonce go all of the idea.

14:19

Welcome back from the day show. You know, Black

14:22

Street doesn't just have to be for

14:24

February. It can be for normal sized

14:26

months too, So let's go to Royal

14:28

Jr. For another episode of CPE Time.

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M Hello,

14:45

welcome to see Pee Time, the only

14:47

show that's from the culture. Today,

14:50

we'll be discussing house music. When

14:53

I say house music, I'm not talking about all those weird

14:55

sounds that you hear in your home, the

14:57

floor creaking, the radiator playing

14:59

a beat at three in the morning, or when you're washing

15:01

machine beats like crazy to let you know it's done

15:04

with the load. It's right,

15:06

ladies, Daddy's got clean boxes

15:08

on deck. I'm

15:11

talking about the genre of fast paced,

15:14

beat, heavy dance music that's kept the molly

15:16

industry alive for forty years. That's

15:19

the stuff music rolling because

15:22

you are too. House

15:24

music is all the rage these days, from

15:27

Drake and Beyonce to Swedish

15:29

house mafia to Mickey Mouse's

15:31

cocade cousin who lives in the bad part of Epcot.

15:34

But would you believe that this genre has

15:36

its origins in the black community?

15:39

Of course you should cep time.

15:42

You never heard me say, surprise, it's

15:44

Caucasians. So yes,

15:47

these modern artists stand on the shoulders of house

15:49

music, black and gay founders. So let's

15:51

talk about some of them, like Francis

15:53

Nichols, a k a. Frankie Knuckles.

15:56

Frankie started as a d J in New York

15:58

at a time for rocious backlash

16:01

against disco music, so

16:03

bad that in nineteen seventy nine, a crowd gathered

16:06

at Chicago's Comiskey Park to

16:08

burn the records of artists and what

16:10

was known as Disco Demolition

16:13

Night. Even watching the footage

16:16

today, it's still a shocking sight a

16:18

full baseball stadium.

16:21

By the way, here's a tip. If you ever

16:23

had a mass burning, you're

16:25

probably on the wrong side. No

16:28

one has ever said, well that mass

16:30

burning was a success. Now

16:32

all the orphans are safe. Anyway,

16:35

Disco was dead, but people still

16:38

wanted to get down in the club, and

16:40

so Frankie Nuckles started experimenting with

16:42

the new style of dance music at his home

16:44

club in Chicago, The Warehouse.

16:47

That's where house music gets its name, not

16:49

as some people think, from Doctor House, although

16:53

Doctor House does love popping peels.

16:56

With this partner, Larry Levan Frankie

16:59

Knuckles helped the house music scene

17:01

and the careers of many superstar DJs

17:04

like Ron Hardy, who created

17:06

a technique of extending songs indefinitely,

17:09

bringing the crowd to a fever pitch. It

17:12

was so entrancing that one night people

17:14

continued to dance at his club even

17:16

after a speaker caught on fire.

17:20

You know a song is good when people keep dancing

17:22

during the fire. That does

17:24

not happen with Cotton Eye Joe. When

17:27

I hear that song, I try to start a fire just

17:29

so I can get away. Where did

17:31

you come from? Where did you go? Out out

17:34

this burning house? And

17:36

finally, one of the most iconic

17:39

voices of house music, the Queen

17:41

of club Land, Martha Wash.

17:44

Martha was half of the famous duo The Weather

17:46

Girls, who created some of the most iconic

17:48

music of the eighties, including It's

17:51

Raining Men. Unfortunately,

17:53

due to climate change, It's Raining Men far harder

17:56

and longer than ever before Hallelujah.

18:00

After the Weather Girls broke up, Martha

18:02

Wash ended up with Sea and See Music Factory,

18:05

where she sang the unforgettable hook

18:08

every instantly

18:11

recognizable. But controversy

18:13

arrived with the music video when the group cast

18:16

a French model to lip

18:18

Saint Martha's lyrics, and

18:20

she didn't find out until she saw the video.

18:23

Finding out bad news is even worse when it happens

18:26

on television. You never want the worst

18:28

moment of your life followed by a Pine Saw

18:30

commercial. Not only that,

18:33

Sea and See Music Factory didn't even

18:35

credit her for the vocal yet

18:37

another employee being mistreated

18:40

by a factory. But Martha

18:42

Washed pushed back and south Sea and Sea

18:44

Music Factory for proper credit. She won

18:47

the case and that led to federal legislation

18:49

making vocal credits mandatory and music

18:52

That's Right. Even her lawsuits

18:54

were hits. So whenever you see

18:57

an album that says something like vocals

18:59

by Little pop Vert hashtag

19:01

the Lean God, you can thank

19:03

Martha Wash for whatever the hell

19:05

that meant. That wraps up our

19:07

time with house music. If you like that

19:10

sort of thing, which personally I do not.

19:13

Maybe I'm old school. But that type of music is undignified.

19:16

Shaking my hips like a heathen. Thank

19:18

you. There's no commandment about

19:20

dropping it low. That movie

19:22

Dirty Dancing was about two people rubbing crotches

19:25

in public places. It's a terrible

19:28

wouldn't it? Roy? Is

19:32

that you? God? I

19:35

knew you were a black woman. No,

19:38

it's me, Martha Wash. What's this I

19:40

hear about you not liking dance music? Martha?

19:43

I cannot abide by dance music,

19:46

not a single note. I'm a man of culture.

19:49

I shop me it once a decade and that's it. Nonsense.

19:53

Everyone can dance. Everyone

19:55

must dance. Hit a studio hit

19:58

from O God.

20:03

Oh, come on God, waken,

20:08

slow down a little bit. You look like

20:10

your box in the Kangaroo.

20:15

Help with Marther. You put

20:17

the devil of it. He's loving it. He's

20:20

hips of Satan's Kingdom. Now, huh,

20:23

that's all the time we have to see for your time, I've

20:26

been Royal Junior. I remember well

20:28

for the culture. Oh lord, it's

20:30

raining me. I mean, come on, Danny's

20:37

thank you so much? Cold right with Julie? All right, say too, because

20:39

when we come back, Secretary Pete, who the jack looks

20:41

joining all right here on the show. Go on, Welcome

20:59

back to the Heady show. Might get to like

21:01

serves as Transportation Secretary

21:03

in the Biden administration. He's here to talk

21:05

about infrastructure and so much more.

21:07

Please welcome Secretary Pete. Secretary

21:26

Pete Buddha Jes, Welcome back to the

21:28

Daily Show. It's it's weird though, because I've known you

21:30

for so long as Maya Pete. Everyone knows you as Maya Pete.

21:32

It's always answered Pete. You will, okay,

21:35

so you won't get offended. You won't be like no, it's secretary

21:37

may have Pete now no, okay,

21:40

okay, Well, congratulations on the new job. We haven't

21:42

seen you since you've gotten it. You you know, it's been it's

21:44

been a lively period for you to be in this position. Let's

21:46

start with the most important question. Maybe there

21:48

was a one point two trillion

21:50

dollar infrastructure build that was possible, Yes, if

21:52

my memory shows me correct, So that's taxpayer money

21:55

and everyone paid for that infrastructure. You're the person

21:57

who are doing a lot of infrastructure. So where's our money,

21:59

Pete? What's what are you doing with the money?

22:02

What's going great? Last week we announced a

22:04

use of part of the money in order to make more transit

22:07

stations accessible. A couple of weeks before

22:09

that, we put out the first wave of airport

22:11

terminal grants were improved, proving eighty four

22:14

airport terminals around the country. This morning, I was in

22:16

New Jersey. There's a bridge there, the Portal

22:18

North Bridge. Alright, for a couple of folks here recognize

22:21

it. This bridge.

22:24

It's it's the finest construction

22:26

engineering from the Roosevelt administration, the

22:29

Teddy Roosevelt administration. It

22:31

is a hundred eleven years old, and when

22:34

they swing it back into place sometimes it

22:36

works so poorly that workers have to take sledge

22:39

hammers in order to get the rails to align.

22:42

We're rebuilding the bridge completely. We broke

22:44

ground on it this morning with the Governor, and it's just one

22:46

of a lot of more things we're doing with

22:48

so yeah, well, I mean, it's everything that that

22:50

we've wanted for a long time in American

22:53

infrastructure. After years and years, years

22:55

and years of talk. The last president

22:57

talked a good game about this. Now we are actually getting

22:59

at

23:02

getting done. How are you getting it done? Right? It's

23:05

it's interesting that you say that this is. This is something I find

23:08

particularly strange in American

23:10

politics. Everybody likes infrastructure,

23:13

However, it seems like people

23:15

are more or less likely

23:17

to like it depending on who is building the infrastructure.

23:20

So to your point, Trump said from the visa like I want to improve

23:22

America's infrastructure. People like this is great, you

23:24

know, And then when Biden says it feels like a lot of Republicans have said,

23:26

oh no, no, we don't. We don't like it. We don't like where you're

23:29

spending the money, how you're spending the money. When

23:31

you go to these actual communities, because that's what infrastructure

23:34

affects, actual communities, do

23:36

you find that it is still less partisan or when

23:38

you get on the ground, does it have more of a

23:40

like a just an American feel to it? In

23:42

the communities, it's incredibly

23:45

bipartisan. I'm in red states, Blue states,

23:47

purple states. People don't care about the

23:49

party of the presidents. They want to get the job done. I

23:51

mean I was. I was in one of the reddest

23:54

parts of Indiana, southern Indiana, where

23:56

we're upgrading a port uh in a tiny

23:58

community called Tel City, about seven thousand

24:00

people in that in that whole community

24:03

and the port is on the river. It's actually just a

24:05

crane on a barge. Basically, we're

24:08

upgrading that. We went there to celebrate what

24:10

that's going to do to help him get pig iron that comes in

24:12

on barges on the on the river. And

24:15

not a single person asked me about Republican Democrats

24:17

stuff. Among the residents there, they were just excited.

24:20

Now. There were a lot of people on Capitol

24:22

Hill who voted no, although I will say

24:24

quite a few Republicans came over and voted with Democrats

24:27

to get this done. What I will also say is a lot

24:29

of the ones who voted against it have not hesitated

24:31

to write us letters about how they'd now like

24:34

that funding to go to their districts, which I take

24:36

to be in

24:39

and you know we're gonna do this without regard to politics.

24:42

I just consider it in policy world,

24:45

i'd call it the sincerest form of flattery. When

24:47

they vote against your stuff and then they do

24:50

the stuff that they voted against. It is an interesting

24:52

position to be in because you know, as a secretary,

24:55

in many ways, you have to remove the

24:57

politics from your job, even though you offer

25:00

filling the mandate of a person who is inherently

25:02

political. You're going around the country, you're

25:04

improving the worlds, you're trying to change how America

25:06

operates. One of the biggest things we've seen recently

25:09

sent a Joe Mansion jumping on board and saying, okay,

25:11

let's get some of this money going for what is it now,

25:13

the Inflation Inflation

25:16

Reduction Act. Great um, And

25:19

it seems like there's a lot of tension around E vs.

25:21

Electric vehicles. I've

25:23

seen some of your clips online. They get cut up, people

25:26

splice it. They make it seem like you're saying what you're not

25:28

saying. I won't cut you

25:30

up, so I but I would would like to know why

25:33

is the electric vehicle a better option for Americans?

25:35

If if if there are people who are saying, well, this is our

25:38

taxes, why don't we just use the taxes for other purposes?

25:40

Why forced that money to go into the world of electric cars?

25:42

Right? So, first of all, it's a

25:44

very important part of how we fight climate change because

25:47

transportation is the biggest sector

25:49

in our economy that's emitting these grainhouse

25:51

gases. But also it's better for drivers.

25:53

You spend less money on gas even with normal

25:56

gas prices. There would be a savings to having

25:58

an electric vehicle. Uh, and there's

26:00

less maintenance, so it's a win win win.

26:02

Plus, this is where the automotive industry

26:04

is going anyway globally, so it's really important

26:07

to make sure that we're competing, that

26:09

our competitiveness is such that this is a made

26:11

in America electric vehicle revolution.

26:14

Now it's more ideological

26:17

than it should be on Capitol Hill. But again,

26:19

you know, the the same constituents

26:21

who who are watching this this

26:24

back and forth on on Capitol Hill, they're

26:26

also seeing the Super Bowl ads. They know what an

26:28

evy actually costs, and hopefully

26:31

they're seeing that we're about to bring that cost lower

26:34

through the Inflation Reduction Act. So some of the same

26:36

politicians who were beating us up about

26:38

e vs, saying they're too expensive,

26:40

they have a chance coming up to vote to

26:42

make them cheaper. We'll see what they do. When

26:45

you look at the incredument America in the

26:47

structor look at the cause, and look at the trains, I'm

26:51

I'm constantly amazed at how just

26:54

in the American idea, trains

26:57

seem to be a completely alien concept.

26:59

You know, away when you travel to Europe you

27:02

see what they're doing with the trains. I mean, Japan was one of the most

27:04

amazing experiences I've ever had. You just get anywhere

27:06

on a train almost instantly. And in

27:08

America, people almost you

27:10

know, make it seem like it's Unamerican to not

27:13

drive a car and prefer a train. I

27:15

know, when Obama came into power, he said we should get high

27:17

speed rail going. That was completely thrown out.

27:21

You are the Transportation and secretary. Are

27:23

you focusing on that is the world where we will get like super

27:25

fast trains to take people across the country, to rule

27:27

parts of the country, like will revitalize the country.

27:29

Yeah, and we're taking the first steps in that direction

27:32

right now. Look, I thought I was the

27:34

biggest trained person I know, but in this administration,

27:37

I'm always gonna be second place after the President when

27:39

it comes to enthusiasm for passenger

27:41

rail. Look, frankly, the first order of

27:43

business is to take care of what we've got. We've got a huge

27:45

backlog because there's there's

27:47

been a lot of resistance to investing in our rail networks,

27:50

but also resistance coming from

27:52

you know, some of its ideological, so it's cultural.

27:54

But the way I see it is why

27:56

shouldn't Americans have the best rail

27:59

in the world if we're a competitive country and

28:01

we believe that we ought to be the best in everything. You

28:03

know, you mentioned that the standard that the Japanese,

28:06

I mean, never mind just the Japanese standard.

28:08

If you're in Italy or Morocco or

28:11

Turkey, you can routinely expect

28:13

faster rail service than in the US. We can

28:15

and must change that. And it begins with what we're

28:17

doing with this because sometimes I'll be driving, let's

28:19

I'll be driving from like the airport, and we're gonna talk about

28:22

airports as well, driving from the airport coming

28:24

into New York City, and then I'll be driving

28:26

past people in a train and

28:29

I see them looking at the cause going. But

28:32

we're in a train and I'm

28:34

in the traffic like you guys are in a train,

28:36

they should be going faster than me. Right. The logic

28:39

that is how that generally should work. It should be why

28:41

isn't it going that? What's what's going wrong? Because

28:43

you get what you pay for, and this country,

28:46

for basically as long as you and I have been alive,

28:48

has been under investing in rail.

28:51

And when you do that, there's a rail cost

28:53

to that. And by the way, it's a win when we do, because

28:55

if you do have great rail, that's

28:58

even good for the people who are in the cars because

29:00

there's less congestion on exactly the same reason. We're

29:02

investing in transit right now. It makes all the sense

29:04

in the world. It always did, but that much more

29:06

now that we're facing this climate challenge. You're not just investing

29:08

in transit. They're investing in the roads themselves.

29:11

I know you made headlines when and correct

29:13

me if I paraphrase you incorrected, But I mean you basically

29:15

said that America's roads are racist, right,

29:19

exactly what I say? Exactly no no, no,

29:21

no no, But because I understand

29:23

what you're saying, but say, but the point is, look,

29:25

there are many places in the US

29:28

where a road or a

29:30

railroad was used to divide

29:33

or segregate, or even remove a neighborhood.

29:35

Typically I complete. I mean,

29:37

the very fact that we have the phrase wrong side

29:40

of the tracks in American English language

29:42

tells you something about how infrastructure,

29:44

which is supposed to connect can also be

29:46

used to divide, often on racial lines.

29:49

And we've got to face and we can do something. What

29:52

can you do about that. Are you going

29:54

to Are you gonna rip up the

29:56

roads? And this is what people say, They say Pee is

29:58

coming, He's going to rip up the high ways. There's

30:00

gonna be normal highways anymore. Everyone's gonna normal

30:03

highways. What are you actually planning to do to

30:06

try and write many of those wrongs? So what we're

30:08

doing is now that we're making the biggest investment

30:10

in highways and roads since the Eisenhower

30:12

administration, we're going to get it right. And that includes

30:15

recognizing that infrastructure is supposed

30:17

to connect, not divide. Some places,

30:20

that might mean that you've got a road

30:22

that's that's cutting up a neighborhood, it needs to

30:24

go underground and then you can put a cap over, and then

30:26

you can put a park in that cap and create value

30:28

in the whole neighborhood. Sometimes it doesn't have to

30:30

be as elaborate and expensive as that. Maybe

30:33

it's creating a transit link or pedestrian

30:35

bridge. It's going to look different in every community.

30:38

But the point is every community is

30:40

coming to us with ideas about

30:42

how to do this, and and the thing is everybody

30:44

wins when we do this. Nobody's worse off

30:47

when we reconnect areas that have been

30:49

separated or segregated. And I don't know why

30:51

anybody would be against us doing that when the

30:53

whole point of transportation is to

30:55

connect, not to divide. I

30:58

think the reason why of people would be against it is although

31:00

suff explani story, you won't have people

31:02

want to be here, they want other people to be there.

31:05

The airports is something I definitely want to talk

31:07

to you about this. This is a weird situation. How know you tweeted

31:09

about it and no sentence. Elizabeth

31:11

Warren came out saying like, this is this is what we should do. We should

31:13

find the airlines. Anyone

31:15

who's flown knows how difficult

31:18

it can be. The airline can almost do anything

31:20

to you with impunity. They can cancel your flight.

31:22

They can delay your flight ten times and then cancel

31:25

it. Then they'll tell you we won't give you the money, we'll give

31:27

you a credit, and then your credit maybe used, maybe

31:29

not be used. So this is important, A

31:31

little bit of news you can use. If

31:33

they cancel your flight, you are entitled

31:35

to a cash refund, and we enforce that

31:38

rule. A lot of people don't know that. So you get canceled,

31:41

you call the airline. They're like, well, we'll give

31:43

you a two thousand miles. How's that sound? And that might

31:45

sound good. That's worth about twenty

31:47

bucks. And you are entitled

31:50

to potentially hundreds of dollars in refunds.

31:52

But I'm entitled, But how do I actually get that? Like?

31:54

Do I send you you'll like, do something? How

31:57

do we make this people getting

31:59

their flights about something they don't wear any I don't how do you

32:01

know orcement? Yea, So first

32:04

of all, when you ask them to give you refund, they have to do it.

32:06

But if they don't, come to us. We have

32:08

an entire Office of Aviation Consumer Protection.

32:11

We enforced as a matter of fact, and we're doing it. It wasn't

32:13

just this summer thing. Last year we actually

32:15

issued the biggest fine in the history of the program

32:17

because an airline was failing to promptly

32:20

refund people. We got a website. You go to the DT website

32:22

and look up more about your rights as an air consumer.

32:25

But know your rights because we have your back. I

32:27

like that. Okay, send Pete. That's

32:29

the people should say. Seen Pete um lost

32:32

not least not least you

32:35

know mitchums are coming up people, are

32:38

you know American people are looking at four

32:40

already? It was interesting because a

32:42

new New Hampshire poll came out recently

32:45

which had you slightly

32:48

edging President Biden in the race

32:51

for four. Now, I know you

32:53

are secretary, so you can't say anything about that. It's

32:55

political and you're not obviously your boss. You're not gonna

32:57

say anything bad and you won't. But but and

32:59

if I said to you, are you gonna run? Knowing

33:01

if I say are you gonna run, you wouldn't say you're gonna run or

33:03

what it? But I just want to know when you see a poll like that doesn't

33:06

give you a little more swag, And meetings with the president

33:08

doesn't give you like a little like if he says something

33:10

to him, are you are you ever? Like You're Joe? Like?

33:12

Is ever like a book? If

33:16

I want to look good in front of my boss, the

33:18

best thing I can do is have just

33:20

broken ground on a major project like we did today

33:23

in New Jersey. That's gonna be my focus because that's

33:25

my job. So slick, so

33:27

good, want to do. Thank you so much for joking

33:29

on the show. Game. Keep pulling roll off

33:32

the trains, Kick boota jags. Everybody,

33:34

We're gonna take a quick break over the right back after

33:36

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33:39

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