This week, Governor Moore joined Kasie Hunt, Jen Psaki, and Stephen A. Smith to discuss Trump’s failure on the Potomac River, Trump uninviting him from the decadeslong tradition of a bipartisan dinner at the White House, Black History Month, and to celebrate the life and legacy of Rev. Jesse Jackson.
Excerpts From Gov. Moore’s CNN Interview
This is not a serious team that we’re working with. We’re talking about a D.C. Pipe on federal land, right? The area that we’re talking about has been under federal control for the past century. And so any indication or any insinuation that somehow this is a Maryland issue or Virginia issue is ridiculous. This is a D.C. Pipe on federal land.
Now the white house wants to get involved even though we were doing their job for the past month. So if the president wants me to ask nicely–here’s my nice ask of the president, Mr. President, please do your job.
The President of the United States does not get to determine what my worthiness is. The reason I’m a member of the national governors association is because the people of Maryland elected me with a historic margin of victory. An historic number of individuals voted to make me the governor of Maryland, not the president. The reason I’m the vice-chair of the National Governors Association is because both Democratic and Republican governors voted for me to help lead the organization, not the president.
Excerpts From Gov. Moore’s MSNOW Interview
I wish the president wasn’t as obsessed with me and he’d be more obsessed with the American people and what they’re going through, he seems to be wholly obsessed with me. I just wish he’d be more obsessed with them.
Mr. President, please do your job and please stop looking at all of us to have to cover up
for the type of inaction that we are seeing from this White House.
Black history is about the foundation of America. It’s about the fact that this country’s history would be incomplete if we don’t fully embrace the contributions that black Americans have made, oftentimes to a country that never showed them the same respect back. But people who love this country and were willing to fight for the hope of it. Black history is not something about talking about the friendships that you have. It is truly about understanding that this nation is a nation that is unique, diverse, deeply uneven in its history.
Excerpts From Gov. Moore’s Interview With Stephen A. Smith
Our state has been under a greater level of assault from this administration than any other state in this country. We’ve had over 25,000 people fired by this administration just since he has been
the president a year ago. And not a single dollar of federal disaster aid, which by the way is taxpayer dollars, but not a single dollar in disaster relief has come to Maryland or any other state that did not vote for Donald Trump.
The only ask I have of the Maryland Senate is let democracy win. Which just simply means vote. And frankly, if you vote, I don’t care what the result of the vote is because that’s the way democracy works. Sometimes a vote doesn’t go your way and that’s okay. But we still stand by democracy and that’s my only ask in this moment is do not let democracy die in the Free State. That’s not who we are.
Reverend Jackson was a giant. He was someone who reminded us that we can walk unafraid because we’re protected, that we can walk with our heads up and our chest out because we are covered. We’re covered with the greatest of hedges, and that’s God’s protection. I stand here as the governor of the State of Maryland, and there are many amazing shoulders that I stand on–maybe none as broad as Reverend Jesse Jackson though because Jesse Jackson was someone who did not change a mindset for a people but he helped to change the trajectory of a country and helped to remind us that we are going to be better together and that we are going to be stronger united. And so, our heart goes out to the Jackson family, but I want to give a special thank you to them because they shared with us a great, great gift in the Reverend Jesse.
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