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Welcome to Washington in Focus, where we put Washington in focus.
That's just an unusually dressed man in the deep, deep background.
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Host Marcus James opens Washington in Focus with panelists Lamar Woods and Audrey Tuck and guest Daniel Roth of The Atlantic, who is making his first BET appearance. While reviewing a historic night for Democrats, the panel rattles off Black political firsts and insists Sherrod Brown is a Black senator from Ohio, shrugging off Daniel's corrections and cracking jokes about how a white man with that name would speak. When the show pulls up a photo, a strangely dressed man stands in the far background and is hailed as the senator. The same mix-up repeats with Jerome Powell, whose photo shows a saxophone player, and the host cuts to a commercial promising the senator himself after the break.
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- 00:00
Speaker 1
You're watching BET at 9 it's young Sheldon what you don't think we watch that but first Washington in focus
- 00:08
Marcus James
welcome Welcome to Washington in focus where we put Washington in focus My name is Marcus James joining us as always is Lamar woods.
- 00:24
Lamar Woods
What's up Marcus?
- 00:25
Marcus James
Audrey tuck.
- 00:27
Audrey Tuck
Hey Marcus and today to help us break down the midterm results. We have Daniel Roth from the Atlantic
- 00:34
Daniel Roth
Great to be here. This is actually my first
- 00:36
Marcus James
time on BET. Nice.
- 00:40
Marcus James
So, obviously, Tuesday's midterms were a historic night for Democrats, historic night in general for people of color. I mean, lots of firsts. Lots of
- 00:49
Audrey Tuck
firsts. That's right. I mean, we saw Keisha Lance Bottoms in Georgia become the first black female governor. Let's
- 00:55
Marcus James
go. Let's go. Whoo! Yeah. And also, Hakeem Jeffries could be the first black speaker of the House. yes and there's a new black senator in Ohio Sherrod Brown oh
- 01:09
Audrey Tuck
yeah I like Sherrod Brown I like what he's got going on yeah yeah
- 01:14
Marcus James
it is good to see a black man representing
- 01:16
Daniel Roth
the Buckeye State that's right that's right oh sorry just to cut in but I just want to say Sherrod Brown is white can you
- 01:31
Lamar Woods
imagine a white guy guy named Sherrod Brown I mean what would he even sound like like hello I'm Sherrod Brown might I interest you in some food and perhaps some chitterlings white Sherrod you crazy boy that's crazy man come
- 01:43
Daniel Roth
on not crazy that's just what he is he's white super
- 01:47
Lamar Woods
funny man hey I've seen you work in Atlantic it's hilarious it's not supposed to be look
- 01:52
Daniel Roth
can we see a picture of the senator okay sure
- 01:54
Marcus James
let's see Sherrod yeah Yeah,
- 01:59
Lamar Woods
I'm having trouble zoom in on Sherrod Yeah. There he is. That's it. Look at the clean,
- 02:05
Daniel Roth
boy. Look Yeah, that's
- 02:07
Marcus James
right. That's my senator. No, it's actually not
- 02:09
Daniel Roth
your senator. It's actually not. That's just an unusually dressed man in the deep, deep background. You
- 02:15
Marcus James
know what? Let's just keep this moving. Now, what's going to be interesting is seeing how Trump works with this new Congress.
- 02:20
Audrey Tuck
I mean, we all know Trump doesn't work well with people of color, okay? Remember how he forced out the first black fed chairman, Jerome Powell? Okay.
- 02:27
Daniel Roth
OK. Jerome Powell is also white. Oh, boy! White? You are a fool.
- 02:37
Lamar Woods
Talking about white. Because what would he sound like? What would he sound like if he was white? Dude, I am white Jerome. You need a pack of black and mild? Look, this
- 02:46
Daniel Roth
is a picture of Jerome Powell. Yeah,
- 02:50
Lamar Woods
but zoom in on Jerome, though. Yeah, this is him. There he is. Yeah, he got an
- 02:56
Daniel Roth
outro sax. Hell yeah. And I
- 02:58
Lamar Woods
bet he play the hell out that horn right there. Yes, he does. It's
- 03:00
Daniel Roth
not Jerome Powell. Wow, also, who is this guy? Did he just get dressed up and stand in the background of photos? Hey,
- 03:07
Lamar Woods
whatever he's doing is working. It got him in the government.
- 03:09
Daniel Roth
Actually, it did not. All
- 03:11
Marcus James
right, you know what? You seem to have a thing about this. Why don't we take a commercial break? We'll be right back with the senator himself, Sherrod Brown. There we go. That
- 03:18
Daniel Roth
is not... That's
- 03:21
Marcus James
not even the senator. Oh, no, no, no, we know. That's our producer. Hey, show me Sherrod. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's what I'm talking about. That's where I put him, right there. is clean. He's clean. He's clean.
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