Kamala Harris returns to spotlight, hails courage of Trump opponents

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00:00Hi everyone! Hi! Hi everyone! Hi! Oh, it's good to be home!

00:26Thank you! Oh, hi! I'm Andrea! Hi everyone!

00:30Thank you all! Thank you! Thank you!

00:34And Dougie's here too!

00:38Oh, please have a seat!

00:42Please have a seat!

00:46Oh, it's wonderful to be home! And thank you all!

00:50Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

00:54In 20 years, Andrea! My goodness!

00:58I mean, your babies are grown!

01:02Good evening, everyone!

01:04Thank you for supporting Emerge!

01:06Thank you for supporting Emerge!

01:08It is so wonderful to be home and to be back

01:14with all the leaders who are here

01:16and to celebrate this extraordinary organization,

01:22which is an organization of so many exceptional leaders,

01:26those who found the courage to run for office

01:30and those who support them.

01:32Emerge, I will say something you know.

01:36Throughout my entire career and life,

01:38I have always believed in the ideals of our nation.

01:42The ideals reflected in the Declaration of Independence

01:46that all are created equal and endowed by our Creator

01:52with certain inalienable rights.

01:56Ideals advanced and affirmed by the service and sacrifice

02:02generations of patriots.

02:06The ideals that ground the Constitution of the United States,

02:10that here in our country,

02:14power ultimately lies not with the wealthy or well-connected,

02:24but with all of us,

02:26with we the people.

02:32Now, of course,

02:34I recognize that America

02:36has never fully

02:38lived up to these ideals,

02:40that for all the gains

02:42we've made,

02:44the American dream has

02:46for decades been slipping

02:48further out of reach

02:50for so many,

02:52and that the American people

02:54deserve leaders

02:56who make their lives better

03:00and make our country stronger.

03:06But sadly,

03:08we have seen quite the opposite

03:12over these past few months.

03:14Now, I know tonight's event happens to coincide

03:20with the 100 days

03:22after the inauguration,

03:26and I'll leave it to others

03:28to give a full accounting

03:30of what has happened so far.

03:34But I will say this.

03:36Instead of an administration

03:40working to advance

03:42America's highest ideals,

03:44we are witnessing

03:46the wholesale abandonment

03:48of those ideals.

03:50And what we are also seeing

03:52in these last 14 weeks

03:54is Americans using their voice

04:10and showing their courage.

04:12and showing their courage.

04:18We all know President Trump

04:20and his administration

04:22and their allies

04:24are counting on the notion

04:26that fear can be contagious.

04:30They are counting on the notion

04:34that if they make some people afraid,

04:38it will have a chilling effect

04:40on others.

04:42But what they're overlooking,

04:44what they have overlooked,

04:46is that fear is not the only thing

04:50that's contagious.

04:52courage is contagious.

05:02The courage of Americans

05:04who are banding together

05:06in the face of the greatest

05:08man-made economic crisis

05:10in modern presidential history.

05:14Americans across the political spectrum

05:20who are declaring

05:22that the President's reckless tariffs

05:26hurt workers and families

05:28by raising the cost

05:30of everyday essentials,

05:32devastate the retirement accounts

05:36that people spent a lifetime paying into,

05:40and paralyze American businesses,

05:44large and small,

05:46forcing them to lay off people,

05:48to stop hiring

05:50or pause investment decisions.

05:54The courage of Americans

05:58we are seeing who are rallying

06:00at Social Security offices

06:02to protect their hard-earned benefits.

06:06Of Americans who are speaking out

06:08to say,

06:10it is not okay

06:12to violate court orders.

06:14Not okay.

06:16say,

06:20it is not okay

06:22to detain

06:24and disappear

06:26American citizens or anyone

06:28without due process.

06:36The courage of judges

06:38to uphold the rule of law

06:40law in the face of those

06:42who would jail them.

06:46Of universities

06:48that are defying unconstitutional

06:50demands that threaten

06:52the pursuit of truth

06:54and academic independence.

06:56And I will tell you,

07:04the courage of all these Americans

07:06inspires me.

07:08And I have been inspired

07:10by the movements

07:12like the one in Wisconsin

07:14that put Susan Crawford on the Supreme Court.

07:16by the State of the People Power Tour

07:20by the State of the People Power Tour

07:22that is aiming to ignite

07:24a grassroots movement

07:26to lift up voices

07:28and advance freedom and justice.

07:30And by leaders across the spectrum,

07:34including congressional leaders

07:36like Cory Booker,

07:38Chris Van Hollen,

07:40Chris Murphy,

07:42Jasmine Crockett,

07:44Maxwell Frost,

07:46AOC and Bernie Sanders.

07:48All who, in different ways,

07:54have been speaking

07:58with moral clarity

08:00about this moment.

08:04So here's one of the other things

08:06I wanted to talk about tonight.

08:08And to highlight.

08:10So look, some people

08:12are describing what's been happening

08:14in recent months

08:16as absolute chaos.

08:20And of course, I understand why.

08:22And it's certainly true

08:24of those tariffs.

08:26Tariffs that,

08:28as I predicted,

08:30are clearly inviting a recession.

08:34But friends,

08:36please let us not be duped

08:38into thinking

08:40everything is chaos.

08:42I know it may feel that way.

08:44But understand,

08:46what we are, in fact,

08:50witnessing

08:52is a high-velocity event.

08:56Where a vessel

08:58is being used

09:00for the swift implementation

09:02of an agenda

09:04that has been decades

09:06in the making.

09:08An agenda

09:10to slash

09:12public education.

09:14An agenda

09:16to shrink government

09:18and then privatize

09:20its services.

09:22All while giving tax breaks

09:24to the wealthiest among us.

09:26By the way,

09:28an agenda that is not

09:30lowering costs,

09:32not

09:34lowering costs,

09:36not making life

09:38more affordable,

09:40and not

09:42what they promised.

09:44It's an agenda,

09:48a narrow,

09:50self-serving

09:52vision of America.

09:56Where they punish

09:58truth,

10:00favor loyalists,

10:02cash in on their power,

10:04and leave everyone

10:06to fend for themselves.

10:08All while abandoning allies

10:12and retreating from the world.

10:16And folks,

10:18what we are experiencing

10:20right now

10:22is exactly

10:24what they envisioned

10:26for America.

10:28Right now,

10:30we are living

10:32in their vision

10:34for America.

10:38But this is not a vision

10:40that Americans want.

10:42We are living

10:44in a moment

10:46when the checks and balances

10:48upon which we have historically relied

10:50have begun

10:52to buckle.

10:54And we here know

10:56that when the checks and balances

10:58ultimately collapse,

11:00if Congress fails

11:02to do its part,

11:04or if the courts

11:06fail to do their part,

11:08or if both

11:10do their part,

11:12but the President defies them

11:14anyway,

11:16well, friends,

11:17that is called

11:18a constitutional crisis.

11:20And that

11:22is a crisis

11:24that will eventually

11:26impact everyone.

11:28because it would mean

11:30that the rules that protect

11:32our fundamental rights

11:34and freedoms

11:36that ensure

11:38each of us has a say

11:40about how our government works

11:42will no longer matter.

11:44will no longer matter.

11:48And if that happens,

11:50the one check,

11:52the one balance,

11:54the one power

11:56that must not fail

11:58must not fail

12:00is the voice of the people.

12:04that will not fail.

12:12And look,

12:14right now,

12:16I know a lot of folks

12:18are wondering

12:20what's gonna guide us

12:22through this moment?

12:24How are we all going to figure out how to chart the course?

12:30But that's not a reason to throw up our hands.

12:35In fact, please allow me, friends, to digress for a moment.

12:38Okay.

12:40It's kind of dark in here, but I'm asking a show of hands.

12:43Who saw that video from a couple of weeks ago?

12:45The one of the elephants at the San Diego Zoo during the earthquake?

12:49Google it if you've not seen it.

12:56So that scene has been on my mind.

12:59Everybody's asking me, what you've been thinking about these days?

13:01Well, so in the video, for those who haven't seen it, here those elephants were.

13:11And as soon as they felt the earth shaking beneath their feet,

13:16they got in a circle.

13:19And stood next to each other to protect the most vulnerable.

13:27Think about it.

13:28What a powerful metaphor.

13:30Because we know those who try to incite fear are most effective when they divide and conquer.

13:45When they separate the herd.

13:50When they try to make everyone think they are alone.

13:56But in the face of crisis, the lesson is don't, don't scatter.

14:06The instinct has to be to immediately find and connect with each other.

14:17And to know that the circle will be strong.

14:29So I'll end with this.

14:31I am not here tonight to offer all the answers, but I am here to say this.

14:36You are not alone and we are all in this together.

14:42And straight talk, things are probably going to get worse before they get better.

14:49But we are ready for it.

14:51But we are ready for it.

14:54We are not going to scatter.

14:56We are going to stand together, everyone a leader, and emerge.

15:05You have a special role to play.

15:06You have a special role to play.

15:10Organizing is as important as ever.

15:15Mobilizing is as important as ever.

15:19Running for office is as important as ever.

15:24So please, everyone here, please keep doing what you are doing.

15:30And to everyone, let's lock it in.

15:33Lock it in, lock it in, gear up for the hard work ahead.

15:42And please, always remember, this country is ours.

15:53It doesn't belong to whoever is in the White House.

15:57It belongs to you.

15:59It belongs to us.

16:02It belongs to we, the people.

16:09God bless you.

16:10And God bless America.

16:11Thank you all.

16:12Thank you all.

16:13Thank you all.

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