Goldberg: “I would like this young lady who’s — this is her first job, I would like her to do a little homework because she said something yesterday that really pissed me off, and that was she said there will be no wokeness here.”
BEHAR: “Oh, yeah.”
Goldberg: “Let me explain something to you because without that wokeness you might not have that job.” (Applause)
HOSTIN: “Yeah.”
Goldberg: “Because — because women were not invited to that table. Women were not invited to many tables in this nation. The reason we fought and busted our behinds to make sure that you didn’t have to worry about this. And now to hear you talk about it and to hear anybody talk about the wokeness — the wokeness was put in place for a reason, because black people couldn’t get into colleges, because women could not get into the colleges they wanted to go to. This is all women.”
BEHAR: “Yeah.”
Goldberg: “See this is not black, Asian women. This is all women. Women were not invited to this party. It was a man’s world and we busted our asses to make sure that this was a person’s world. (Applause) So please, please stop using that phrase and talk about because you don’t understand what you’re saying. You are saying about yourself that you know, hey, that’s a terrible thing to be. It’s not a terrible thing to be. That’s why we fought. That’s what we were fighting for so that you could stand in that podium, so that Jean — Karine Jean Pierre could stand at that podium.”
BEHAR: “Yeah.”
Goldberg: “So women of all kinds of colors and ilks, wherever they came from, whatever their belief system was, they had the opportunity to bust down that door. I just want to —“ [crosstalk]
BEHAR: “I think she’s — she’s probably been put in there because according to Donald Trump, she’s a 10. You know, that’s what it is.”
FARAH GRIFFIN: “Well, I — I want to be clear though, it’s not her first job, it was her first press briefing. She worked in the previous Trump Administration.” [crosstalk]
HOSTIN: “She — she is the youngest press secretary though.”
FARAH GRIFFIN: “Which I think is an accomplishment.”
Goldberg: “OK. This is the first time that she’s been — that — she may be — but my point is that job would not maybe have been open to her —“
FARAH GRIFFIN: “No, I understand.”
Goldberg: “— without us.”
FARAH GRIFFIN: “I just wanted to clarify that.”
Goldberg: “Yeah.”