WEBVTT - And, This Is A Rally For Yes On Proposition 50 0:00:08.360 --> 0:00:11.400 Hey, everybody, I'm Brian Tayler Cohen. Thank you so much 0:00:11.400 --> 0:00:14.760 for tuning into our Yes on fifty Voter Registration Day rally. 0:00:14.920 --> 0:00:17.080 We've got an amazing guest list today. We're joined by 0:00:17.079 --> 0:00:18.960 some of the biggest fighters on the left who are 0:00:18.960 --> 0:00:21.840 meeting this moment with the urgency that it deserves. And 0:00:21.920 --> 0:00:24.599 of course I'm joined now by Governor Gavin Newsom. 0:00:25.120 --> 0:00:27.560 Before we get into a little. 0:00:27.320 --> 0:00:29.000 Bit of our back and forth, just want to let 0:00:29.040 --> 0:00:30.840 folks who are watching know that we are hosting this 0:00:30.960 --> 0:00:34.160 rally because of what's happening right now, and what's happening 0:00:34.240 --> 0:00:37.400 right now is existential, not just for the left but 0:00:37.479 --> 0:00:40.839 for democracy. We have watched as Trump has issued his 0:00:40.880 --> 0:00:44.520 clarion call to Texas for five seats and how they responded. 0:00:44.760 --> 0:00:46.720 We've watched as he did the same thing in Missouri 0:00:46.760 --> 0:00:48.840 and how they responded. We're going to see the same 0:00:48.840 --> 0:00:51.600 thing in Indiana and then Florida, and I wouldn't be 0:00:51.600 --> 0:00:54.480 surprised if we see other states do the exact same thing. 0:00:54.800 --> 0:00:57.960 The reality is that this is how Republicans engineered themselves 0:00:58.000 --> 0:01:00.600 into a permanent majority, which may makes it all the 0:01:00.600 --> 0:01:03.320 more important that we actually fight back. So the whole 0:01:03.320 --> 0:01:06.080 Republican movement across the country is going to pour money 0:01:06.120 --> 0:01:08.320 into California because they know that if they can beat 0:01:08.319 --> 0:01:10.920 this thing in California, then they have nothing to worry 0:01:10.920 --> 0:01:14.800 about in terms of pushing back against this overt blatant 0:01:14.800 --> 0:01:15.400 power grab. 0:01:15.800 --> 0:01:17.039 So what we'll ask you to do. 0:01:17.040 --> 0:01:19.800 Throughout this evening as we try and raise money to 0:01:19.880 --> 0:01:22.440 counteract the avalanche of funds that are going to come 0:01:22.480 --> 0:01:24.680 in from across the country on the Republican side, is 0:01:24.680 --> 0:01:26.280 we're going to ask you to go ahead and donate 0:01:26.480 --> 0:01:29.800 to Yes on fifty live dot com. This will help 0:01:29.880 --> 0:01:33.000 our efforts to make sure that everybody in California knows 0:01:33.040 --> 0:01:35.319 the stakes of what's going to happen on November fourth, 0:01:35.400 --> 0:01:38.199 knows the stakes of this referendum coming up, and knows 0:01:38.240 --> 0:01:41.200 that it is existential again not just for Democrats, but 0:01:41.240 --> 0:01:44.160 for the preservation of democracy itself. So that's going to 0:01:44.200 --> 0:01:46.080 be an important point that we're going to hit on 0:01:46.120 --> 0:01:48.600 a numerous times throughout this evening. So with that said, 0:01:49.160 --> 0:01:52.760 I'm now honored to be joined by the Governor of California, Gavenus, 0:01:52.840 --> 0:01:54.080 and thanks so much for taking the time. 0:01:54.360 --> 0:01:56.000 It's great to be with you. Brian, Thank you. 0:01:56.720 --> 0:02:00.280 So we are obviously broadcasting right now in the midst of. 0:02:00.240 --> 0:02:01.400 A really difficult week. 0:02:01.520 --> 0:02:06.160 We have seen gun violence occur with the shooting last 0:02:06.160 --> 0:02:09.600 week against Charlie Kirk. We have seen the overt assaults 0:02:09.600 --> 0:02:13.040 against free speech at the hands of Donald Trump and 0:02:13.080 --> 0:02:16.519 Pam Bondi and all of these other purported free speech warriors. 0:02:16.760 --> 0:02:18.720 And so in light of what we're seeing right now, 0:02:18.880 --> 0:02:20.240 I'm sure that there are a lot of folks who 0:02:20.280 --> 0:02:23.520 are watching this who feel, you know, exhausted, And so 0:02:23.680 --> 0:02:25.560 what would you say to those people who are watching 0:02:26.240 --> 0:02:28.400 to let them know that this is worth staying on 0:02:28.440 --> 0:02:31.040 top of, this is worth continuing to fight for. 0:02:32.240 --> 0:02:33.760 Well, I first say is you're a human. 0:02:34.520 --> 0:02:39.079 If you're not feeling exhausted, exhausting and anxious in some 0:02:39.120 --> 0:02:43.320 ways fearful, then you're not breathing, you're not living. 0:02:43.600 --> 0:02:45.960 And I just I think we have to give some 0:02:46.000 --> 0:02:46.720 people grace. 0:02:47.760 --> 0:02:50.760 The last five six, seven years, we've been through a 0:02:50.840 --> 0:02:55.160 once in a lifetime pandemic social unrest. We went through 0:02:55.480 --> 0:02:58.519 all of the challenges coming out of COVID, with supply 0:02:58.639 --> 0:03:03.560 chain issues and away inflation and wars of aggression and Ukraine, 0:03:03.600 --> 0:03:06.920 and challenges that were continuing to work our way out, 0:03:07.000 --> 0:03:09.480 and so I just want to acknowledge all that stacking 0:03:09.480 --> 0:03:12.400 of stress that everybody's feeling. And of course last week, 0:03:12.520 --> 0:03:18.800 you know, just the the ultimate punctuation. And for just 0:03:18.840 --> 0:03:21.160 for what it's worth, Brian, you know this. I started 0:03:21.160 --> 0:03:25.239 a podcast not too many months ago and Charlie Kirk 0:03:25.360 --> 0:03:28.600 was my first guest. He was gracious enough to not 0:03:28.639 --> 0:03:32.799 only say yes, he flew out to do it in person, 0:03:33.040 --> 0:03:36.160 and I spend not just the hour plus in a 0:03:36.240 --> 0:03:39.840 very civil conversation with Charlie, I spent time with him 0:03:39.880 --> 0:03:43.040 after and we stayed in touch, including my teams, staying 0:03:43.080 --> 0:03:46.840 in touch pretty consistently. And that's the spirit I want 0:03:46.840 --> 0:03:49.400 to bring to this conversation is one of civility, one 0:03:49.440 --> 0:03:52.960 of grace, one of humanity, common humanity. Obviously we have 0:03:53.120 --> 0:03:56.920 deep differences of opinion. Obviously he was very offended by 0:03:57.160 --> 0:04:01.840 positions I hold dear, and I in turn very offended 0:04:01.880 --> 0:04:05.120 by things that he said and positions he held. But 0:04:05.200 --> 0:04:08.000 the fact is we had that opportunity to engage, and 0:04:08.560 --> 0:04:11.920 so I would say, in response to your question, it's 0:04:11.960 --> 0:04:16.120 absolutely essential that we, in the spirit of this moment, 0:04:16.800 --> 0:04:20.159 hold ourselves to a higher level of civility and accountability 0:04:20.600 --> 0:04:24.040 in the spirit of this conversation, accountability to the moment 0:04:24.600 --> 0:04:28.839 we're in and the consequences of giving into cynicism and 0:04:28.880 --> 0:04:31.280 anxiety and fear. And I just say to everyone and 0:04:31.320 --> 0:04:34.840 closing in this spirit, you're the antidote to that cynicism, 0:04:34.920 --> 0:04:37.760 that fear and anxiety. The fact that you've tuned in 0:04:38.480 --> 0:04:41.240 means you've not tuned out to what's at stake. And 0:04:41.279 --> 0:04:45.440 I cannot impress upon people watching it's all at stake. 0:04:46.080 --> 0:04:50.680 This is a profound and consequential moment in American history. 0:04:51.000 --> 0:04:54.120 We can lose this republic if we do not. 0:04:54.120 --> 0:04:57.760 Assert ourselves and stand tall at this moment and stand 0:04:57.760 --> 0:05:00.880 guard to this republic in our democra. Chris, I feel 0:05:01.040 --> 0:05:05.440 that in my bones, particularly in light of what's happened 0:05:05.440 --> 0:05:06.240 in the last week. 0:05:06.760 --> 0:05:09.480 So let's talk about the California map redraw, this situation 0:05:09.600 --> 0:05:12.240 that we're in right now. We have, you know, not 0:05:12.320 --> 0:05:15.599 that many weeks to go until this referendum, until November, 0:05:15.680 --> 0:05:17.800 and so they're going to be folks watching who say, look, 0:05:17.839 --> 0:05:20.640 California is a big blue bastion. Why do we have 0:05:20.680 --> 0:05:22.800 to worry about this? This thing is already a done deal. 0:05:23.520 --> 0:05:25.719 Why is this worth talking about right now? 0:05:26.000 --> 0:05:28.480 Well, because it's Prop fifty for a reason, impacts all 0:05:28.520 --> 0:05:32.640 fifty states. It's not an electoral map. It's a simple 0:05:32.720 --> 0:05:33.440 math issue. 0:05:33.640 --> 0:05:34.080 You said it. 0:05:34.120 --> 0:05:38.360 In the oddset, Donald Trump realizes and recognizes that he. 0:05:38.400 --> 0:05:41.240 Is likely, almost overwhelmingly. 0:05:41.960 --> 0:05:45.520 Likely to lose the midterms, and so he's trying to 0:05:45.600 --> 0:05:48.480 hold on to power. And the only way you can 0:05:48.480 --> 0:05:51.320 hold onto power is to rig the system, to change 0:05:51.320 --> 0:05:54.000 the game. He's not playing by a different set of roles. 0:05:54.279 --> 0:05:57.120 He's playing by no rules whatsoever. And that's why he 0:05:57.200 --> 0:06:02.159 dialed up Greg Abbott Intoxis and suggested that he's quote 0:06:02.200 --> 0:06:06.560 unquote entitled to five seats. They did his bidding, and 0:06:06.600 --> 0:06:09.680 as you suggest that bidding is being done in real 0:06:09.760 --> 0:06:13.760 time in Missouri, in Indiana, it will be advanced in 0:06:13.920 --> 0:06:17.240 states like Florida. And you may have seen today the 0:06:17.279 --> 0:06:21.320 comments that were made about Utah and Ohio as well. 0:06:21.360 --> 0:06:24.880 So this is as real as it gets. And the 0:06:25.000 --> 0:06:27.360 whole idea of redistricting, i assure you, is the tip 0:06:27.400 --> 0:06:30.480 of the iceberg, because he's also setting up the parameters 0:06:30.480 --> 0:06:34.440 in the condition where he can suggest that when he loses, 0:06:34.720 --> 0:06:37.719 that's up to us if we do our job. When 0:06:37.720 --> 0:06:42.120 he loses the midterm, he could suggest it was rigged itself. 0:06:42.640 --> 0:06:45.240 He's quite creating a chill. And let me give you 0:06:45.320 --> 0:06:47.479 an example of what I mean by that as it 0:06:47.560 --> 0:06:52.239 relates to voter turnout and intimidation tactics. When we kicked 0:06:52.240 --> 0:06:54.760 off the campaign for Yes On fifty, we did it 0:06:54.760 --> 0:06:58.040 at the Democracy Center in southern California. Brian, you were 0:06:58.040 --> 0:07:01.400 there in little Tokyo. Well, and many of you watch 0:07:01.480 --> 0:07:04.520 you know this well. Litu Tokyo is the site of 0:07:04.920 --> 0:07:09.880 sacred site where we shamefully bust the Japanese as we 0:07:10.040 --> 0:07:15.360 interned the Japanese. That happened, and at that exact same site, 0:07:15.520 --> 0:07:20.280 Donald Trump sent masked private army, He sent out border 0:07:20.320 --> 0:07:25.280 patrol and ice to intimidate to US senators, a half 0:07:25.320 --> 0:07:28.720 dozen or dozen members of Congress, one hundred plus community 0:07:28.800 --> 0:07:32.440 leaders to try to intimidate us from holding the rally 0:07:32.480 --> 0:07:34.360 in the first place. And a poor soul that just 0:07:34.440 --> 0:07:38.680 happened to be out there selling strawberries was disappeared by 0:07:38.680 --> 0:07:42.720 that same private army. That is a preview of things 0:07:42.840 --> 0:07:46.120 to come, I assure you. At voting booths and polling 0:07:46.120 --> 0:07:49.160 places across this country, just as we said after he 0:07:49.240 --> 0:07:53.320 federalized the National Guard, and he sent the military not overseas, 0:07:53.360 --> 0:07:56.040 he sent the military to a United States city in 0:07:56.080 --> 0:07:59.960 Los Angeles, seven hundred active duty marines is intended to 0:08:00.640 --> 0:08:05.840 chill free speech and free expression. The stakes could not 0:08:06.000 --> 0:08:10.760 be more clear, and the stakes could not be more consequential. 0:08:11.360 --> 0:08:12.840 And finally, let's finish off with this. 0:08:13.320 --> 0:08:15.520 There are folks who are going to say that this isn't, 0:08:15.720 --> 0:08:19.080 this isn't an example of good governance. And so Democrats 0:08:19.120 --> 0:08:23.360 should should kind of practice what they preach and not 0:08:23.440 --> 0:08:27.600 do the same thing that they have disavowed for so long. 0:08:27.640 --> 0:08:30.600 And so in this particular moment, what do you say 0:08:30.640 --> 0:08:31.600 to those people. 0:08:31.360 --> 0:08:35.240 Well, we can certainly do that. 0:08:35.280 --> 0:08:37.319 We can have a candlelight vigil, we can hold hands, 0:08:37.320 --> 0:08:38.839 we can talk about the way the world should be. 0:08:38.880 --> 0:08:41.120 We can come out with a white paper and. 0:08:41.080 --> 0:08:44.040 Talk about, well, how did all this happen? They're gonna 0:08:44.040 --> 0:08:46.920 be some best selling books. As we watched our democracy 0:08:47.000 --> 0:08:49.960 slip away, as we watched the rule of law law 0:08:50.200 --> 0:08:52.719 turn into the rule of dawn. As we watch yet 0:08:52.760 --> 0:08:55.839 another law firm or another media organization sell their soul, 0:08:56.080 --> 0:08:58.680 or to see another corporate titan sitting there and give 0:08:58.720 --> 0:09:02.640 personal you know, sit there and fealty to the dear leader. 0:09:02.679 --> 0:09:03.800 We could see more. 0:09:03.640 --> 0:09:08.120 Companies get socialized and nationalized. We can watch universities sell out. 0:09:08.160 --> 0:09:11.160 We can see this democracy slip through our fingers. We 0:09:11.200 --> 0:09:13.880 can sit there and say, boy, people really should have 0:09:13.920 --> 0:09:16.680 stood up and taken this guy, Stephen Miller a little 0:09:16.720 --> 0:09:19.199 bit more seriously when he called the Democratic Party a 0:09:19.280 --> 0:09:22.760 terrorist organization, or taking the Department of Justice and it's 0:09:22.760 --> 0:09:26.480 an attorney general, it's leader who said that any speech 0:09:26.520 --> 0:09:28.880 they don't like is now hate speech, and they'll have 0:09:28.920 --> 0:09:30.800 the ability to shut it down and say, boy, we 0:09:30.840 --> 0:09:33.920 could have done something more. Or we can recognize the 0:09:33.920 --> 0:09:37.080 moment we're in and we can meet that moment and 0:09:37.120 --> 0:09:39.680 we can push back, and we do it with some muscularity. 0:09:40.200 --> 0:09:43.559 We did this in response to what Donald Trump has done, 0:09:43.559 --> 0:09:46.440 and we've done it in closing Brian in the most 0:09:46.480 --> 0:09:48.920 democratic way. And I would say that to those still 0:09:48.920 --> 0:09:52.200 on the fence, that's the difference between us and them. 0:09:52.600 --> 0:09:55.440 We're not only using our formal authority, our ability to 0:09:55.920 --> 0:09:58.760 fight fire with fire and redistrict, but we're using our 0:09:58.800 --> 0:10:03.240 moral authority in this respect. Fact, it's temporary, it's transparent 0:10:03.640 --> 0:10:07.079 and its democratic meaning we're putting in front of the voters. 0:10:07.080 --> 0:10:09.520 This is the first maps in the United States that 0:10:09.559 --> 0:10:12.679 will actually be submitted to the people themselves. The maps 0:10:12.720 --> 0:10:16.439 will be on the ballot, and it's a temporary response 0:10:17.120 --> 0:10:22.000 to this emergency, this crisis of the rigging of the midterms, 0:10:22.400 --> 0:10:27.400 and we need to win this at peril that will 0:10:27.440 --> 0:10:30.000 lose this republic, will lose this democracy. It is not 0:10:30.080 --> 0:10:34.080 an overstatement. This is code read. We all need to 0:10:34.160 --> 0:10:37.800 wake up to what's going on. And maybe, in final words, 0:10:38.240 --> 0:10:40.640 maybe I'm saying that from the prism of being a 0:10:40.679 --> 0:10:45.680 governor of a state where I watched the military asserting 0:10:45.720 --> 0:10:49.080 themselves to try to take over for domestic policing, where 0:10:49.120 --> 0:10:52.640 I watched this private army that is the most funded 0:10:52.960 --> 0:10:55.400 private army of its type anywhere in the world, with 0:10:56.000 --> 0:10:59.880 ice out there in masks, intimidating people, and they're free 0:11:00.080 --> 0:11:03.280 expression of speech. Maybe it's because I'm sitting here where 0:11:03.280 --> 0:11:06.920 the UC regions are meeting tomorrow to discuss a one 0:11:06.920 --> 0:11:12.360 point nine billion dollar extortion fine because institutions of higher 0:11:12.440 --> 0:11:15.480 learning and independent thinking are under assault by Donald Trump. 0:11:15.640 --> 0:11:18.520 That happens to be UCLA in my state, maybe it's 0:11:18.559 --> 0:11:20.600 to the prison of that, but I assure you in 0:11:20.720 --> 0:11:23.280 every state in America, I assure you this is a 0:11:23.320 --> 0:11:26.640 preview of things to come perfectly. 0:11:26.200 --> 0:11:28.920 Put and to underscore how important that is. The reality 0:11:29.040 --> 0:11:31.559 is Republicans know all of these things, which is why, again, 0:11:31.640 --> 0:11:33.400 as I mentioned in the beginning, they're going to pour 0:11:33.480 --> 0:11:35.440 a ton of money into this effort, because if they 0:11:35.440 --> 0:11:38.880 can neutralize California, that's all they need, especially with the 0:11:38.880 --> 0:11:43.080 weapons that they have at their disposal, meeting Texas, Missouri, Indiana, Florida, 0:11:43.160 --> 0:11:44.920 and on and on. So for those who are watching 0:11:45.000 --> 0:11:46.679 right now, if you'd like to help us make sure 0:11:46.720 --> 0:11:50.280 that everybody can become aware of what's happening in California, 0:11:50.320 --> 0:11:53.880 please donate what you can to yes on fifty live 0:11:54.080 --> 0:11:56.320 dot com and we'll be repeating that throughout the evening. 0:11:56.640 --> 0:11:58.880 With that said, i'd like to take the opportunity now 0:11:58.920 --> 0:12:02.120 to introduce my friends at Crooked Media, two of the 0:12:02.120 --> 0:12:07.440 hosts for Podsave America, John Favreau and Tommy vitur uhrookd 0:12:07.679 --> 0:12:10.320 Potsave America, of course, is a liberal podcast, and Crooked 0:12:10.360 --> 0:12:13.480 is a media organization that was started after these guys 0:12:13.520 --> 0:12:17.160 served in senior positions in the Obama administration. John Favreau 0:12:17.200 --> 0:12:19.240 is the chief speech writer and Tommy was the spokesman 0:12:19.280 --> 0:12:21.680 for the National Security Council. It is my honor to 0:12:21.760 --> 0:12:23.520 introduce my friends John and Tommy. 0:12:24.040 --> 0:12:25.040 That's the nice as interesting. 0:12:25.559 --> 0:12:29.120 Jeez, yeah, you can, you can. You guys can pay 0:12:29.160 --> 0:12:30.960 me afterwards, We already do. 0:12:31.000 --> 0:12:31.880 I bet you go stipend. 0:12:32.600 --> 0:12:32.920 Listen. 0:12:33.040 --> 0:12:35.760 Thank you all for being here, thank you for inviting 0:12:35.800 --> 0:12:38.439 us to the last Stream, thank you for raising money 0:12:38.440 --> 0:12:41.000 for this initiative, and Governor k Newsom for for putting 0:12:41.040 --> 0:12:45.319 this proposal forward. Uh, it's been a really scary tough week. 0:12:45.400 --> 0:12:49.120 I think for everybody what happened to Charlie Kirk is 0:12:49.120 --> 0:12:56.440 an evil, indefensible tragedy, full stop, end of sentence. That 0:12:56.440 --> 0:13:00.720 that said, what Donald Trump has signaled to come is 0:13:00.840 --> 0:13:05.400 very scary, and it sort of reminds you of what 0:13:05.480 --> 0:13:08.240 this country could look like if there is no check 0:13:08.280 --> 0:13:10.120 on his power. And I think we have all thought 0:13:10.160 --> 0:13:12.680 and hoped and believed that the first check on his 0:13:12.720 --> 0:13:16.360 power would be the midterm elections. But clearly Donald Trump 0:13:16.440 --> 0:13:19.720 wants to steal the midterms through this redistributing process, and 0:13:19.760 --> 0:13:21.920 we have to fight back. So that's why this is 0:13:21.920 --> 0:13:24.239 such an important proposition. 0:13:24.800 --> 0:13:28.280 Yeah, I think this is pretty simple. In an ideal world, 0:13:29.120 --> 0:13:33.880 there would be no partisan jerry mandering and everyone would 0:13:33.920 --> 0:13:36.120 sign on to the bill Democrats introduced a couple of 0:13:36.160 --> 0:13:41.560 years ago to have independent, nonpartisan redistricting all over the country. 0:13:41.800 --> 0:13:43.880 That is not the world we live in. Donald Trump 0:13:43.960 --> 0:13:46.559 decided one day that he wanted to squeeze five more 0:13:46.600 --> 0:13:50.439 seats out of Texas and basically has been pretty honest 0:13:50.440 --> 0:13:54.560 about it. There's no pretext here, there's no he's not 0:13:54.559 --> 0:13:56.280 trying to hide it. He's just saying, I want five 0:13:56.320 --> 0:13:58.079 more seats, and now I want all the other states 0:13:58.160 --> 0:14:00.560 that can give me more seats to redraw so they 0:14:00.600 --> 0:14:02.400 can give me more seats as well. So then it's 0:14:02.440 --> 0:14:05.520 easier for me to win the midterms. So then I 0:14:05.600 --> 0:14:08.480 don't have to be investigated for anything. My administration doesn't 0:14:08.480 --> 0:14:10.800 have to be investigated for anything, and I can continue 0:14:10.840 --> 0:14:16.000 to confirm judges and pass all kinds of legislation. And 0:14:16.840 --> 0:14:19.680 if we win the midterms, Donald Trump will never sign 0:14:19.680 --> 0:14:23.240 a piece of legislation again. If we win the midterms, 0:14:23.400 --> 0:14:27.680 we can start trying to hold his administration accountable. And 0:14:27.880 --> 0:14:31.640 so this now comes down to Prop fifty. And I 0:14:31.720 --> 0:14:35.320 know some people might think, well, it's California, Democratic voter 0:14:35.440 --> 0:14:39.440 registration advantage should be no problem. It's going to be 0:14:39.720 --> 0:14:42.640 a lower turnout election, and so a lot of political junkies, 0:14:42.680 --> 0:14:45.040 like the people who are probably watching this live stream, 0:14:45.040 --> 0:14:46.280 are going to show up and that's that. 0:14:46.840 --> 0:14:47.080 Well. 0:14:47.200 --> 0:14:51.040 The other side is going to spend millions and millions 0:14:51.080 --> 0:14:53.360 and millions of dollars to try to defeat this because 0:14:53.480 --> 0:14:56.960 Donald Trump and the Republicans are very aware that if 0:14:57.040 --> 0:15:01.520 we draw the maps here to you know, try to 0:15:01.560 --> 0:15:04.760 neutralize what they're doing in Texas and other places, that 0:15:05.200 --> 0:15:06.640 it's going to be a harder for them to win. 0:15:07.080 --> 0:15:10.840 And you know, reporting suggests that on Donald Trump's mind 0:15:11.160 --> 0:15:13.800 are the midterms more than they ever have been. He 0:15:14.600 --> 0:15:17.160 is very very intent on winning these. He's very very 0:15:17.200 --> 0:15:21.560 nervous about the possibility of being investigated, his administration being investigated. 0:15:21.680 --> 0:15:24.040 So they are going to dump an enormous amount of 0:15:24.080 --> 0:15:26.320 money in here, and they're going to try to get 0:15:26.320 --> 0:15:29.120 their base going and to get people to turn out 0:15:29.160 --> 0:15:31.600 in midterm elections that don't usually turn out, that usually 0:15:31.680 --> 0:15:33.960 just turn out for Donald Trump in presidential year. So 0:15:33.960 --> 0:15:36.520 they're throwing everything they have into this, which is why 0:15:36.840 --> 0:15:40.200 it's really really important for everyone to donate so that 0:15:40.200 --> 0:15:42.360 we can get the word out, so that Governor Newsom 0:15:42.400 --> 0:15:46.080 can get the word out. And ballot initiatives in California 0:15:46.120 --> 0:15:49.200 are always a little confusing, having lived here for quite 0:15:49.200 --> 0:15:52.160 a while now, and so we have to remind everyone 0:15:52.320 --> 0:15:56.000 through communication, through spending money on ads that you got 0:15:56.040 --> 0:15:58.120 to vote yes on this to make sure that we 0:15:58.200 --> 0:16:01.040 have a chance in the mid term to take back 0:16:01.040 --> 0:16:05.520 the House. So please, if you can donate to yes 0:16:05.600 --> 0:16:08.680 on fifty live dot com, you can go right there 0:16:08.720 --> 0:16:12.920 and donate. And thanks everyone for listening and for tuning in. 0:16:13.400 --> 0:16:17.160 And now we're gonna we're gonna bring in a Massachusetts luminary. 0:16:17.520 --> 0:16:17.760 Yes. 0:16:18.120 --> 0:16:20.760 Senator Elizabeth Warren is on the stream. 0:16:21.040 --> 0:16:22.400 Our real home states senator Centator. 0:16:22.600 --> 0:16:23.120 Great to see you. 0:16:23.240 --> 0:16:24.720 Yeah, I just see you. 0:16:24.800 --> 0:16:25.160 Guys. 0:16:26.000 --> 0:16:28.800 The Patriots are one and one. That's the best news 0:16:28.800 --> 0:16:29.520 I've gotten all week. 0:16:29.560 --> 0:16:29.960 How are you? 0:16:30.440 --> 0:16:33.119 I do it just fine? Thank you very much personally. 0:16:33.600 --> 0:16:36.240 But do keep in mind I am here in Washington, DC, 0:16:37.080 --> 0:16:39.760 and I go in every day that I'm here to 0:16:39.880 --> 0:16:44.480 work in a Senate controlled by spineless Republicans and to 0:16:44.680 --> 0:16:47.880 worry about what comes over from the House, which is 0:16:47.960 --> 0:16:52.800 controlled by spineless Republicans. You know, I you keep thinking 0:16:52.800 --> 0:16:55.800 about why are they pouring so much into this? And 0:16:55.840 --> 0:16:58.640 I think you make exactly one important point. And then 0:16:58.640 --> 0:17:01.160 as Donald Trump does not want to be investigated but 0:17:01.760 --> 0:17:04.040 to I want to dig a little more on this 0:17:05.200 --> 0:17:08.919 because part of what's at stake here is that what 0:17:09.040 --> 0:17:12.480 Donald Trump has been able to do over the last 0:17:13.400 --> 0:17:17.320 how long has it been one hundred and fifty eight years, 0:17:18.200 --> 0:17:22.840 since since January when he was sworn in, is that 0:17:23.400 --> 0:17:27.119 he has been able to break the law over and 0:17:27.160 --> 0:17:29.720 over and over and over and over and over, and 0:17:29.760 --> 0:17:31.639 people say, what can we do? We'll I'll tell you 0:17:32.760 --> 0:17:37.960 if just the tiny number of Republicans in the House 0:17:38.160 --> 0:17:40.840 or the Senate was like, we're done, We're not doing that. 0:17:40.960 --> 0:17:44.400 You can't do that, Donald Trump, Yes you are president, 0:17:44.480 --> 0:17:47.080 but here are things you cannot do, and used our 0:17:47.160 --> 0:17:50.280 leverage and said we won't pass anything out of the 0:17:50.320 --> 0:17:53.360 House and of the Congress, we won't give you funding. 0:17:53.400 --> 0:17:55.240 There are all these things we would have power to do. 0:17:55.800 --> 0:18:01.440 The problem is the Republicans just try to outdo each other, 0:18:01.960 --> 0:18:04.879 and how fast they fall to the floor to kiss 0:18:04.960 --> 0:18:09.800 Donald Trump's feet, and the consequence of that is the 0:18:09.840 --> 0:18:17.280 whole basic structure of government now is breaking apart. So 0:18:17.760 --> 0:18:21.240 here we have Donald Trump, the would be king, and 0:18:21.760 --> 0:18:26.600 Congress under the constitution. There was always this unspoken presumption 0:18:26.680 --> 0:18:31.400 we're jealously guard its power. Well, it's not under Republican control. 0:18:32.280 --> 0:18:36.440 It is acting in a like a frightened child, you know, 0:18:36.960 --> 0:18:41.800 just anything Donald Trump wants. Just don't let him get 0:18:41.840 --> 0:18:45.040 angry with us. And so you've got the House and 0:18:45.080 --> 0:18:48.000 the Senate under Republican control just falling to the ground. 0:18:48.040 --> 0:18:54.040 The difference if we had either of the houses under 0:18:54.119 --> 0:18:57.440 democratic control is that stops. And if we have both 0:18:57.480 --> 0:19:03.720 houses under democratic con role, now we are truly back 0:19:03.760 --> 0:19:08.280 in the game in terms of making our constitution work again. 0:19:08.720 --> 0:19:11.399 And so I just think it's an important part for 0:19:11.520 --> 0:19:15.640 everybody to understand. It's about the midterms. Yes, yes, yes, 0:19:15.680 --> 0:19:21.680 but please understand how important these midterms are. Any accountability 0:19:21.720 --> 0:19:25.840 for Donald Trump, any accountability it's going to come because 0:19:25.880 --> 0:19:30.119 of the midterms, whether it's investigations, whether it's we get 0:19:30.160 --> 0:19:33.800 spending back it. You'll want to support cancer research, so 0:19:33.840 --> 0:19:36.320 do I let me tell you the way to do that, 0:19:36.320 --> 0:19:39.239 that is vote yes I'm fifty, so that we have 0:19:39.280 --> 0:19:42.560 a chance to get the House back, and that means 0:19:42.640 --> 0:19:45.000 we can be in those negotiations and make sure that 0:19:45.040 --> 0:19:49.280 the money that Congress allocates for cancer spending actually gets 0:19:49.280 --> 0:19:52.320 spent on trying to cure cancer. And I can just 0:19:52.359 --> 0:19:56.160 play that example out literally a thousand times. 0:19:56.520 --> 0:19:59.000 I mean, you said it was incredible today watching cash 0:19:59.000 --> 0:20:02.760 Betel the FBI director's hearing for whatever committee that was, 0:20:03.240 --> 0:20:05.800 and he is just clearly performing for an audience of one. 0:20:06.200 --> 0:20:11.000 He is shouting down Democratic senators, he's insulting them, he's 0:20:11.080 --> 0:20:16.919 speaking over them, he's threatening them, essentially, and the Republican 0:20:17.040 --> 0:20:21.399 chairman was, you know, gabbling quiet the Democratic members, Like, 0:20:21.960 --> 0:20:24.159 to your point, at one point along the way, it 0:20:24.200 --> 0:20:29.479 seemed like each body or each institution like jealously guarded 0:20:29.480 --> 0:20:32.040 its own power above all else. But it seems like 0:20:32.119 --> 0:20:35.280 Republicans were just thrilled to watch this performance and to 0:20:35.359 --> 0:20:37.600 watch their colleagues be insulted. 0:20:38.040 --> 0:20:40.080 Right, Can I be just a little dorky and make 0:20:40.119 --> 0:20:43.399 the same point again, please? It is what's happening with 0:20:43.480 --> 0:20:48.040 the Federal Reserve. So here is the one agency that 0:20:48.080 --> 0:20:52.960 Democrats and Republicans have said for one hundred and zillion years. Yes, 0:20:53.040 --> 0:20:55.720 the FED needs to be independent. Why because the FED 0:20:55.840 --> 0:21:00.080 sometimes has to make really hard policy decisions, And so 0:21:00.200 --> 0:21:03.280 everybody wants confidence, whether you've got a Democrat or Republican 0:21:03.280 --> 0:21:06.320 in the White House, that they're doing it as best 0:21:06.359 --> 0:21:09.119 they can based on the numbers, based on what the 0:21:09.160 --> 0:21:14.280 economic data are. That's what we hope keeps our economy 0:21:14.440 --> 0:21:19.320 steady and helps protect Americans across this country. So what 0:21:19.560 --> 0:21:24.240 happens Donald Trump gets to nominate someone the guy he 0:21:24.359 --> 0:21:27.720 has nominated. This is no joke, doctor Myron. Now, since 0:21:27.720 --> 0:21:30.200 it is the president of the Council of Economic Advisors 0:21:30.480 --> 0:21:33.040 working in the White House for Trump, he's not going 0:21:33.040 --> 0:21:35.399 to give up that job. He wants to keep a 0:21:35.520 --> 0:21:38.720 foot in that boat while he goes over to the 0:21:38.840 --> 0:21:45.320 so called independent FED. And so every Republican Senator at 0:21:45.320 --> 0:21:47.560 our hearing last week in Banking, I know it didn't 0:21:47.600 --> 0:21:51.639 have all the sparkle of the Patel hearing, but every 0:21:51.680 --> 0:21:56.560 Republicans I believe in the independence of the FED. So 0:21:56.920 --> 0:21:59.480 I ask this guy, who's Donald Trump? So many I said, 0:21:59.520 --> 0:22:01.800 you're going to be a dependent, right, Well, he's going 0:22:01.840 --> 0:22:04.440 to be independent, he wrote up his notes. I will 0:22:04.480 --> 0:22:06.960 be independent. I will be mister independent. I said, great, 0:22:07.520 --> 0:22:11.159 let's just test out how independent you can be of 0:22:11.280 --> 0:22:14.719 Donald Trump. Did Donald Trump lose the twenty twenty election? 0:22:17.640 --> 0:22:24.760 Mister independent? Nah, could not answer that question. Well, it 0:22:24.960 --> 0:22:31.680 was ruled by a confirmed blah bl blah, right. He 0:22:31.800 --> 0:22:34.520 could not bring himself to say this, or so I said, Okay, 0:22:34.800 --> 0:22:37.360 let's go to another Let's go I realize that one sensitive. 0:22:37.720 --> 0:22:40.800 Let's go to what Donald Trump said when he fired 0:22:41.680 --> 0:22:44.840 the person who put out the labor statistics, the head 0:22:44.880 --> 0:22:49.520 of the uh Labor BLS Bureau of Labor Statistics. And 0:22:50.359 --> 0:22:52.399 I said, Donald Trump, and I read the quote, you know, 0:22:52.480 --> 0:22:55.040 said this person lied and tried to help Kamala and 0:22:55.080 --> 0:22:59.480 falsified data. And I said, is that true? Again, here's 0:22:59.480 --> 0:23:05.200 the guy who's chief economists literally could not say that. Maybe, 0:23:05.359 --> 0:23:09.119 just maybe the President got a word or too wrong 0:23:10.040 --> 0:23:13.119 when he called the head of BLS a liar and 0:23:13.160 --> 0:23:16.880 a chieat, and just maybe had overstepped a little bit. 0:23:17.280 --> 0:23:21.399 And I use that as an example of everybody who 0:23:21.480 --> 0:23:26.840 comes through to be confirmed starts with prostrating, prostrating themselves 0:23:27.040 --> 0:23:30.760 in front of Donald Trump. Might be looking and I 0:23:30.800 --> 0:23:33.159 am so grateful to Donald Trump. They all say, and 0:23:33.280 --> 0:23:36.480 I will do whatever he wants me to do. That's 0:23:36.640 --> 0:23:41.320 why I see Prop fifty as a fight for the 0:23:41.400 --> 0:23:46.080 independence of our democracy, a fight to say there's a 0:23:46.200 --> 0:23:49.399 check on power. For everybody who shut up for no kings, 0:23:49.880 --> 0:23:53.399 this is your chance in California to show up and 0:23:53.640 --> 0:23:54.399 just say. 0:23:55.720 --> 0:23:56.120 Power. 0:23:56.160 --> 0:23:56.639 We get it. 0:23:56.800 --> 0:23:59.800 Presidents should have power, but there's got to be a 0:24:00.080 --> 0:24:03.320 check on that power. And right now there ain't no 0:24:03.480 --> 0:24:06.400 check on that power. It's not coming from the Republicans 0:24:06.440 --> 0:24:08.720 in the House. It's not coming from the Republicans in 0:24:08.760 --> 0:24:11.240 the Senate. It's sure as heck not coming from other 0:24:11.280 --> 0:24:14.120 people in government. And this is our chance to get 0:24:14.119 --> 0:24:16.280 a foot back in the door on that. 0:24:16.280 --> 0:24:19.640 That's right, So donate to you're on yes on fiftylive 0:24:19.680 --> 0:24:22.159 dot com presumably if you're watching this, but if you're not, 0:24:22.320 --> 0:24:24.960 go to yes on fiftylive dot com and donate please. 0:24:25.480 --> 0:24:28.400 It is my honor now to be able to introduce 0:24:29.200 --> 0:24:31.879 two more folks. We have Ben Macellus, who co founded 0:24:31.920 --> 0:24:34.600 the Midas Touch Network, which is the top viewed political 0:24:34.640 --> 0:24:37.560 YouTube channel and the most listened to podcast each month 0:24:38.080 --> 0:24:41.639 of this year. Huge congratulations to Ben and your brothers 0:24:41.640 --> 0:24:43.280 for what you've built in my dis touch. I could 0:24:43.280 --> 0:24:45.399 not be more proud to see that the left is 0:24:45.440 --> 0:24:48.600 fighting back and you guys are a huge, huge, huge 0:24:48.600 --> 0:24:50.760 part of that. So thank you for the work you're doing, 0:24:51.200 --> 0:24:54.760 and congratulations on all of the well deserved accolades that 0:24:54.800 --> 0:24:56.880 you guys have gotten. And I'm also going to call 0:24:56.920 --> 0:25:00.520 in Governor Newsom now, who of course is the center 0:25:00.600 --> 0:25:02.840 of all of this. We have been, you know, begging 0:25:02.880 --> 0:25:05.320 and pleading for Democrats who are willing to match their 0:25:05.800 --> 0:25:08.920 their words and their rhetoric with action, and nobody has 0:25:08.960 --> 0:25:11.040 better exemplified that than the Governor. So I'll let you 0:25:11.080 --> 0:25:11.840 both take it from here. 0:25:12.760 --> 0:25:15.400 Governor Newsom, it's great to see the man of the 0:25:15.440 --> 0:25:19.159 hour right now. When your name is on Donald Trump's 0:25:19.280 --> 0:25:23.800 social media, it seems on an almost hourly basis, whether 0:25:23.840 --> 0:25:28.320 it's Donald Trump claiming that he saved Los Angeles by 0:25:28.400 --> 0:25:32.760 turning on a magical faucet somewhere in the imaginary border 0:25:32.840 --> 0:25:37.600 between California and Canada, whether it's Donald Trump saying that 0:25:37.680 --> 0:25:41.600 he saved Los Angeles again a few months back, whether 0:25:41.920 --> 0:25:45.280 he whatever he was making up about you today, it 0:25:45.400 --> 0:25:47.800 seems that you standing up to him is having a 0:25:47.840 --> 0:25:49.399 certain type of reaction doesn't it. 0:25:50.640 --> 0:25:53.439 Oh, I appreciate that. It's a yeah, No, it's a 0:25:53.440 --> 0:25:54.080 point of pride. 0:25:54.160 --> 0:25:56.480 I mean there were there was almost forty eight hours 0:25:56.520 --> 0:25:58.720 where I felt he'd forgotten about me. But you're right, No, 0:25:58.840 --> 0:26:01.040 he tried to hit me on his way over to 0:26:01.080 --> 0:26:03.840 the UK. And it's just it's a reminder of what 0:26:03.920 --> 0:26:09.040 we're up against. Miss and disinformation, just complete bullshit excuse 0:26:09.119 --> 0:26:13.000 my language, that comes from Donald Trump. And that's why 0:26:13.080 --> 0:26:16.399 it's important that we're not only winning the war and 0:26:16.440 --> 0:26:19.080 the spirit of what Beto and Mark just brought to 0:26:19.119 --> 0:26:21.760 this conversation on the ground and the spirit of what 0:26:21.840 --> 0:26:25.040 Brian talked about in terms of this grassroots people power 0:26:25.600 --> 0:26:29.600 effort to push back against the well healed, but it's 0:26:29.680 --> 0:26:33.520 absolutely critical that we win the messaging war as well, 0:26:34.119 --> 0:26:38.360 that we organize in a much more I think, a 0:26:38.440 --> 0:26:43.080 much more intense way to communicate over and over and 0:26:43.119 --> 0:26:47.359 over again our message across the spectrum, which is just 0:26:47.560 --> 0:26:49.120 foundational on all these efforts. 0:26:49.480 --> 0:26:54.120 Look, the federal government once again is heading towards another 0:26:54.320 --> 0:26:58.800 shutdown potentially, but Donald Trump has ordered MAGA, Mike Johnson 0:26:59.280 --> 0:27:04.520 and Republiicskens do not even have conversations with Democrats He's 0:27:04.600 --> 0:27:10.000 repeatedly referred to Democrats as the enemy radical, don't deal 0:27:10.040 --> 0:27:12.639 with them, don't even talk to them. You've been in 0:27:12.680 --> 0:27:15.840 politics for a little bit. That's not the way it 0:27:15.920 --> 0:27:18.919 always was, But it is what Donald Trump has turned 0:27:19.280 --> 0:27:23.800 the body politic into today. Kind of this zero sum game, 0:27:23.880 --> 0:27:25.800 if you will, And we see it play out over 0:27:25.920 --> 0:27:28.679 and over again, and you know, it seems is the 0:27:28.720 --> 0:27:32.560 American people are letting their voices be heard right now, 0:27:32.840 --> 0:27:35.360 He's getting more and more nervous, hence trying to rig 0:27:35.400 --> 0:27:36.080 these midterms. 0:27:36.640 --> 0:27:39.119 No, look, I mean, I think what you've underscored is 0:27:39.160 --> 0:27:43.720 the fundamental point here. Trump is weakness. He's weakness masquerade 0:27:43.840 --> 0:27:45.080 his strength. He's flailing. 0:27:46.320 --> 0:27:51.200 The economy is cooling, Inflation starting to rise again, consumer 0:27:51.240 --> 0:27:55.119 confidence is down, credit card debt is going up. The 0:27:55.160 --> 0:27:59.920 tariffs have terrified our allies, and taxes are being felt 0:28:00.040 --> 0:28:03.280 on the American people and middle class families. His only 0:28:03.400 --> 0:28:06.760 legislative success, the Big Beautiful Bill, is anything, but it's 0:28:06.760 --> 0:28:10.000 a big beautiful betrayal. And we're seeing all of these 0:28:10.040 --> 0:28:14.560 authoritarian tendencies as a response to that weakness. And the 0:28:14.600 --> 0:28:18.520 more you see caps in his true social and his tweets, 0:28:18.880 --> 0:28:22.560 the more. That just underscores the fact that he's flailing. 0:28:23.080 --> 0:28:25.160 That's why he's trying to rig this election. That's why 0:28:25.160 --> 0:28:28.520 we're having this conversation. That's what PROB fifty is all about. 0:28:28.840 --> 0:28:32.560 Pushing back in a meaningful and substantive way. But one 0:28:32.600 --> 0:28:36.879 cannot underestimate the lengths to which he will go to 0:28:37.000 --> 0:28:42.120 not just rig the midterms, but the impacts if he's successful, 0:28:42.280 --> 0:28:45.520 well beyond that. And I really appreciate it, Beto, Elizabeth 0:28:45.520 --> 0:28:48.800 Warrens that are Warren to others really highlighting that, Goarsman 0:28:48.840 --> 0:28:52.320 Garcia that this is not just about twenty twenty five, 0:28:52.600 --> 0:28:56.400 impacts on twenty twenty six and twenty twenty eight and 0:28:56.440 --> 0:29:00.320 beyond the consequences of this initiative to say at the 0:29:00.360 --> 0:29:04.160 tone and tenor into twenty twenty six, to defecto end 0:29:04.360 --> 0:29:09.960 the Trump Prentice presidency next year's midterms. Whereas Tommy said 0:29:09.960 --> 0:29:12.840 in the outset, Donald Trump will no longer be able 0:29:12.840 --> 0:29:16.080 to sign any bill because we'll finally have a check 0:29:16.160 --> 0:29:16.800 on his power. 0:29:17.440 --> 0:29:19.960 You know, living in California is something that I have 0:29:20.040 --> 0:29:23.200 a great deal of pride about. We are the fourth 0:29:23.560 --> 0:29:28.320 largest economy in the world. Of California was a country. 0:29:28.760 --> 0:29:32.440 We are a giver state. We give eighty billion dollars 0:29:32.520 --> 0:29:36.240 plus more to the federal government than we take. By contrast, 0:29:36.360 --> 0:29:40.960 Texas takes about seventy five billion dollars more than it gives. 0:29:41.000 --> 0:29:46.760 You go through every stat and entrepreneurship companies, California is 0:29:46.840 --> 0:29:47.400 leading the way. 0:29:48.160 --> 0:29:48.680 Is that mean? 0:29:48.840 --> 0:29:52.240 But it's constantly under attack by Trump and lots of 0:29:52.240 --> 0:29:54.680 people in red states who, let's face it, I know 0:29:54.760 --> 0:29:57.320 how Donald Trump likes to falsely say that the United 0:29:57.320 --> 0:30:01.600 States subsidizes Canada, which is not accurate and completely false. 0:30:01.640 --> 0:30:04.000 But let's face it, a lot of these red states 0:30:04.120 --> 0:30:08.680 are failing and but for California kind of subsidizing the country. 0:30:08.880 --> 0:30:10.960 Yet they then come and attack us here in California. 0:30:10.960 --> 0:30:11.480 I don't like that. 0:30:11.560 --> 0:30:11.760 Gov. 0:30:12.160 --> 0:30:15.720 I'm with you, man, it's the California derangement syndrome. And 0:30:15.760 --> 0:30:19.360 with respect to our friend Belle O'Rourke, you're exactly right. 0:30:19.480 --> 0:30:24.880 Seventy one point one billion dollar taker state, California eighty 0:30:24.960 --> 0:30:29.120 three point one billion dollar donor state, meaning we provide 0:30:29.120 --> 0:30:31.680 eighty three plus billion dollars more in revenue to the 0:30:31.680 --> 0:30:34.760 federal government than we receive back. And that is the case. 0:30:35.240 --> 0:30:38.360 Vast majority of blue states. But we also have to 0:30:38.360 --> 0:30:40.840 state the facts. I live in California. You live here. 0:30:41.080 --> 0:30:44.120 Size of twenty one state populations combined, the fourth largest 0:30:44.160 --> 0:30:47.640 economy from a GDP in the world. More scientists, engineers, 0:30:47.840 --> 0:30:51.080 more researchers, more Nobel laureates than any state in the nation. 0:30:51.400 --> 0:30:54.200 A system of education that's a conveyor belt for talent, 0:30:54.280 --> 0:30:58.840 the UCCSUS our community college system, pushing out the boundaries 0:30:58.880 --> 0:31:02.240 of discovery, more venture, your capital, and we dominate in 0:31:02.320 --> 0:31:05.160 the next big global economy. Thirty two of the top 0:31:05.520 --> 0:31:08.840 fifty AI companies all here in the state of California. 0:31:08.880 --> 0:31:12.120 So our state of mind is about not just imagination, 0:31:12.280 --> 0:31:16.040 but it's innovation. It's dreaming and doing and it's not 0:31:16.360 --> 0:31:18.600 lost on me and it shouldn't be lost on anybody. 0:31:18.920 --> 0:31:22.200 That part of our secret sauce is the fact that 0:31:22.280 --> 0:31:24.520 we are able to get the best in the brightest 0:31:24.760 --> 0:31:27.640 from around the globe. First round draft choices or a 0:31:27.680 --> 0:31:31.760 majority minority state that our best doesn't tolerate that diversity. 0:31:31.960 --> 0:31:34.760 We celebrate that diversity. All of that's on. 0:31:34.760 --> 0:31:37.440 The line in terms of the assaults of Trump and 0:31:37.520 --> 0:31:41.520 trump Ism and going after DEI, ESG CRT, anything with 0:31:41.560 --> 0:31:44.600 three letters. This guy seems to be assaulting, and so 0:31:45.000 --> 0:31:50.840 what Proposition fifty represents is an opportunity to check his power. 0:31:51.080 --> 0:31:54.960 It's about checks and balances, it's about the rule of law, 0:31:55.280 --> 0:31:58.440 it's about coequal branches of government. And that's why I'm 0:31:58.480 --> 0:32:00.760 so grateful to you and so many others that are 0:32:00.800 --> 0:32:04.120 tuning in so that we can tune up an understanding 0:32:04.120 --> 0:32:05.640 of what's at stake with this initiative. 0:32:05.920 --> 0:32:09.479 Let's talk about this event today before we go National 0:32:09.560 --> 0:32:13.400 voter registration Day, so it has an added layer of significance. 0:32:13.840 --> 0:32:17.840 The website is yes on fiftylive dot com. Everybody go there. 0:32:17.880 --> 0:32:20.520 I'm going to make a donation after this at yes 0:32:20.640 --> 0:32:24.560 on fiftylive dot com. But you bringing together all of 0:32:24.600 --> 0:32:28.200 these people here in new media, bringing members of Congress 0:32:28.200 --> 0:32:32.960 and senators and leaders together, rallying together to support our 0:32:33.240 --> 0:32:36.440 democracy and to support this existential threat. How big of 0:32:36.480 --> 0:32:38.080 a deal is this event today, Governor? 0:32:38.280 --> 0:32:39.320 I think it's huge. 0:32:39.080 --> 0:32:41.200 Because you guys have done one thing that I think 0:32:41.240 --> 0:32:43.720 we all need. I need, I mean I imagine you 0:32:43.800 --> 0:32:47.680 might need. And that's some optimism, some hope, you know. 0:32:47.760 --> 0:32:49.360 I think that we show up for each other. We're 0:32:49.360 --> 0:32:52.280 showing up for a cause greater than ourselves. As Beto 0:32:52.400 --> 0:32:55.240 was saying, two hundred and forty nine years of these 0:32:55.360 --> 0:32:59.560 enduring principles and values, the best of Roman Republican Greek democracy, 0:32:59.600 --> 0:33:01.800 about to say, celebrate the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary 0:33:01.840 --> 0:33:04.200 of our founding fathers. It's all on the line, it's 0:33:04.240 --> 0:33:07.360 all at stake, and I think for me to see 0:33:07.800 --> 0:33:10.880 everybody show up like this, that's incredible, gives me a 0:33:10.920 --> 0:33:14.880 sense of optimism and hopefulness. And what I think it 0:33:14.920 --> 0:33:18.880 also represents from a very organized perspective, is that we're 0:33:18.920 --> 0:33:25.239 not just engaging platform thinking. We're also engaging platform doing that. 0:33:25.280 --> 0:33:29.240 We're actually manifesting something here. We have something to be four, 0:33:29.920 --> 0:33:32.120 we have work to do, we have agency. And what 0:33:32.240 --> 0:33:37.280 I think this whole engagement tonight represents is the power 0:33:37.720 --> 0:33:41.200 of the people in a democracy. Brand I said it best. 0:33:41.280 --> 0:33:44.480 The most important office is office of citizen active, not 0:33:44.560 --> 0:33:49.560 inerds citizenship, and it's people making contributions three five ten dollars, 0:33:49.840 --> 0:33:54.479 making contributions by going out there and volunteering. That will 0:33:54.960 --> 0:33:58.280 be the story that will define not just the success 0:33:58.320 --> 0:34:01.080 of Prop fifty, but the story that I think will 0:34:01.080 --> 0:34:04.200 define this moment in the history books as we move 0:34:04.200 --> 0:34:05.840 into the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary. 0:34:06.160 --> 0:34:09.200 Governor, thank you for what you're doing. Great conversation. I 0:34:09.320 --> 0:34:12.080 echo what everyone else said about you, Brian Tyler Cohen. 0:34:12.239 --> 0:34:14.600 He gave me that very nice intro. But you're the 0:34:14.640 --> 0:34:17.719 og in YouTube and you've paved the way for a 0:34:17.719 --> 0:34:20.160 lot of people like us. And thank you for putting 0:34:20.160 --> 0:34:21.760 this event together, Brian. 0:34:22.080 --> 0:34:22.480 Governor. 0:34:22.520 --> 0:34:23.759 Thanks for fighting for us. 0:34:23.920 --> 0:34:27.759 You give us all hope to see the governor the 0:34:27.840 --> 0:34:31.759 largest state in the United States, pushing back, fighting for democracy. 0:34:31.920 --> 0:34:33.000 Thanks for everything you're doing. 0:34:33.040 --> 0:34:33.360 Governor. 0:34:33.560 --> 0:34:35.320 Appreciate you, brother, Thank you guys. 0:34:35.320 --> 0:34:36.240 Well, thank you both. 0:34:36.320 --> 0:34:39.080 And look, this is again to echo what Ben and 0:34:39.080 --> 0:34:40.719 the Governor were saying. This is what it looks like 0:34:40.760 --> 0:34:44.160 when you actually put words behind action. For so long, 0:34:44.239 --> 0:34:47.200 Democrats have been begging for not just strongly worded letters, 0:34:47.239 --> 0:34:51.319 but for actual, real action, for actual push to what 0:34:51.320 --> 0:34:53.840 we're saying. And that's what we're seeing right here in California. 0:34:53.880 --> 0:34:55.920 But that's just half the battle. This thing is going 0:34:55.960 --> 0:34:58.320 to be a referendum on the ballot. But California is 0:34:58.360 --> 0:35:00.640 a huge state and it's going to real getting the 0:35:00.680 --> 0:35:03.360 word out to so many people and Republicans are already 0:35:03.400 --> 0:35:05.560 doing it. The day that this thing was announced, we 0:35:05.640 --> 0:35:09.640 had Republican operatives sending mailers out to every single address 0:35:09.640 --> 0:35:11.480 in the state. I know that if you live in California, 0:35:11.520 --> 0:35:14.560 you've seen them. You've gotten those mailers in your mailbox 0:35:14.600 --> 0:35:15.600 saying to vote no. 0:35:16.000 --> 0:35:17.040 We have to push back. 0:35:17.080 --> 0:35:19.320 This is our way to protect not just the future 0:35:19.320 --> 0:35:21.560 of the Democratic Party, but the future of democracy itself, 0:35:21.560 --> 0:35:23.880 and that relies on being able to reach all of 0:35:23.920 --> 0:35:25.960 those people who aren't paying attention to politics on a 0:35:26.040 --> 0:35:29.719 daily basis, which, to be honest, sounds good for everybody's 0:35:29.760 --> 0:35:31.840 mental health, but the reality is that it's going to 0:35:31.920 --> 0:35:34.279 take a lot of a lot of push from all 0:35:34.320 --> 0:35:35.960 of us who are paying attention to make sure that 0:35:35.960 --> 0:35:38.759 people know what's going on. So we are getting very 0:35:38.800 --> 0:35:41.160 close to our two hundred thousand dollars mark, which is 0:35:41.200 --> 0:35:43.920 a huge milestone. But please, if you haven't yet donated, 0:35:43.960 --> 0:35:47.120 go to yes on fifty live dot com. Okay, I'm 0:35:47.120 --> 0:35:49.920 so excited to be able to introduce our two next guests. 0:35:50.040 --> 0:35:53.880 We have Joe Carducci and Senator Alex Pardia. Alex Badia, 0:35:55.000 --> 0:35:58.680 I'm sure you've heard Jojo from jurors. She's worked so 0:35:58.719 --> 0:36:01.480 hard to make herself a household. I'm also very proud 0:36:01.560 --> 0:36:03.920 to be from the same home state as her, the 0:36:03.920 --> 0:36:06.200 state of New Jersey, where it should be known that 0:36:06.239 --> 0:36:10.280 we have the best pizza in the country. And Senator Padilla, 0:36:10.840 --> 0:36:13.319 us senator from right here in my new home state 0:36:13.360 --> 0:36:16.120 of California. This is the senator who made a name 0:36:16.160 --> 0:36:18.319 for himself this year by putting his body on the 0:36:18.320 --> 0:36:20.719 line when he was arrested by the Trump administration for 0:36:20.840 --> 0:36:24.400 daring speak out. And that's exactly the kind of forward 0:36:24.480 --> 0:36:26.640 leaning posture that we want to see from our elected officials. 0:36:26.680 --> 0:36:28.439 So I'll let you guys take it from here. 0:36:29.360 --> 0:36:32.520 Well, first of all, thank you, Brian. I did not 0:36:32.760 --> 0:36:35.680 know that you were from the Garden State, the greatest 0:36:35.680 --> 0:36:39.239 state in the country. No offense, I'm just kidding. I'm 0:36:39.239 --> 0:36:43.719 here from New Jersey participating in this event for Prop 0:36:43.760 --> 0:36:47.400 fifty in California because I understand that the stakes of 0:36:47.440 --> 0:36:49.799 this moment are much greater than the best state on 0:36:49.840 --> 0:36:52.360 the planet, which is of course New Jersey. Igin no offense, 0:36:52.600 --> 0:36:55.680 but Senator Padilla, it is wonderful to see you again 0:36:56.480 --> 0:36:59.520 under slightly better circumstances than the last time we spoke, 0:37:00.239 --> 0:37:02.759 But I just wanted, yeah, I'm happy to see your face. 0:37:02.800 --> 0:37:05.960 I feel like we bonded a little bit in a 0:37:05.480 --> 0:37:09.200 in a in a unique way through some tragedy that 0:37:09.400 --> 0:37:12.080 you know happened last week. But I wanted to just 0:37:12.200 --> 0:37:15.760 start with something that is important to me, a thread 0:37:15.800 --> 0:37:18.600 that ties us together, which is what we are, the 0:37:18.680 --> 0:37:22.600 children of immigrants. And the governor just said, in this 0:37:22.680 --> 0:37:28.240 country we celebrate diversity. Your parents, my dad, they believed 0:37:28.320 --> 0:37:31.520 in the American dream. They worked toward that end, they 0:37:31.560 --> 0:37:37.440 participated in achieving that. Donald Trump and Maga Republicans they 0:37:37.520 --> 0:37:41.600 don't appreciate that that diversity. They, on the on the 0:37:41.600 --> 0:37:45.279 other hand, quite the contrary, they're trying to attack it. 0:37:45.440 --> 0:37:47.960 And so I want to start there, if you might, 0:37:48.840 --> 0:37:51.879 with what's at stake right now, for the American dream, 0:37:51.920 --> 0:37:54.200 for for people like your parents, people like my dad. 0:37:54.920 --> 0:37:57.239 Sure, no, Jase, You're great to be back with you. 0:37:57.480 --> 0:37:59.520 And I mean, I think a couple of things. Why 0:37:59.560 --> 0:38:02.640 does Donald Trump have it in for California so badly? 0:38:03.120 --> 0:38:07.040 It's because California is like the opposite of his vision. 0:38:07.560 --> 0:38:09.959 The California is not the most popular state in the nation, 0:38:10.120 --> 0:38:12.120 the most diverse state in the nation, home to more 0:38:12.160 --> 0:38:15.839 immigrants than any state in the nation. And as you've 0:38:15.880 --> 0:38:18.920 been hearing, California has grown to become the fourth largest 0:38:19.000 --> 0:38:21.719 economy in the world. And that's not a coincidence. That 0:38:21.719 --> 0:38:26.040 doesn't just that doesn't happen despite the immigrant population. It's 0:38:26.080 --> 0:38:30.439 because of the immigrant population, the contributions of so many 0:38:30.520 --> 0:38:34.840 immigrants as workers, of course, but also as consumers and 0:38:34.920 --> 0:38:39.759 as entrepreneurs. But because of and there's a lot to 0:38:39.800 --> 0:38:43.080 say about Donald Trump here, but you know, California is 0:38:43.120 --> 0:38:46.279 the embodiment of what the future of the country is 0:38:46.320 --> 0:38:50.080 increasingly diverse, and we should be increasingly inclusive. We want 0:38:50.080 --> 0:38:53.920 to embrace the economic and cultural impact of it. But 0:38:53.920 --> 0:38:56.919 what does Donald Trump do? He attacks California. This mass 0:38:56.960 --> 0:39:01.120 deportation agenda that he has started his administration with is 0:39:01.120 --> 0:39:04.960 centered not just in California but my hometown of Los Angeles. 0:39:05.000 --> 0:39:08.160 So imagine how offended I feel as a proud son 0:39:08.239 --> 0:39:10.839 of immigrants when look any of my dad who worked 0:39:10.840 --> 0:39:12.479 for forty years as a short order cook. 0:39:12.560 --> 0:39:13.720 My mom worked for. 0:39:13.560 --> 0:39:16.480 Forty years cleaning houses so that my brother and my 0:39:16.520 --> 0:39:18.600 sister and I can get a good education. 0:39:18.840 --> 0:39:19.319 That was it. 0:39:19.400 --> 0:39:21.880 And achieve the American dream. And that's the same story 0:39:21.920 --> 0:39:25.480 of millions of immigrants throughout California and throughout the country, 0:39:26.000 --> 0:39:30.200 and Trump and Republicans just can't handle it. So instead 0:39:30.200 --> 0:39:32.840 of trying to build on that success and that strength, 0:39:33.000 --> 0:39:36.160 they try to demonize it and attack it. So it's 0:39:36.200 --> 0:39:38.200 one of the many arguments why we need to support 0:39:38.239 --> 0:39:42.319 Proposition fifty because Prop fifty has been the most powerful 0:39:42.640 --> 0:39:46.440 tool presented to us to rein in this out of 0:39:46.520 --> 0:39:50.480 control administration. They want to steal next November's election by 0:39:50.600 --> 0:39:53.359 rigging it before it even starts. But California is going 0:39:53.400 --> 0:39:56.680 to step up and push back by approving Prop fifty 0:39:56.680 --> 0:39:57.320 this November. 0:39:58.239 --> 0:40:02.760 I appreciate the fight coming from California very very much. 0:40:03.160 --> 0:40:06.680 This is obviously the moment to be meeting, and the 0:40:07.640 --> 0:40:11.760 governor and all of your leadership are meeting this moment extraordinarily, 0:40:12.160 --> 0:40:14.280 and so I want to speak to your point about 0:40:14.320 --> 0:40:18.480 what Republicans are doing and ask you why are they 0:40:18.520 --> 0:40:21.520 trying to cheat ahead of the midterms in twenty twenty six. 0:40:21.600 --> 0:40:22.680 I mean, what do they know? 0:40:23.800 --> 0:40:27.799 Look my point of view, both as a Californian and 0:40:27.880 --> 0:40:30.520 as a member of the Senate, here to me It's 0:40:30.560 --> 0:40:34.560 pretty obvious. You know, under normal circumstances, a party in 0:40:34.719 --> 0:40:39.000 power would be proud of their legislative accomplishments, and they'd 0:40:39.080 --> 0:40:42.200 run on their record and the midterms to try to 0:40:42.200 --> 0:40:45.560 stay in power. That's not what's happening here. They know 0:40:45.680 --> 0:40:50.879 how not just unpopular, but damaging their record has been right, 0:40:51.000 --> 0:40:56.000 this destruction of confidence in the judiciary, the federal government 0:40:56.040 --> 0:40:59.479 as we know it. There cuts to healthcare, their cuts 0:40:59.480 --> 0:41:03.880 the nutrition assistance programs, their tax breaks for billionaires, on. 0:41:03.760 --> 0:41:04.839 And on and on. 0:41:05.480 --> 0:41:08.200 The only hope they have to hold onto power next 0:41:08.239 --> 0:41:11.320 year is to rig the election before it even starts, 0:41:11.560 --> 0:41:14.080 So before I even get to redistricting, you know, whether 0:41:14.080 --> 0:41:18.040 it's legislation they've introduced or the executive orders to make 0:41:18.080 --> 0:41:21.560 it harder for eligible Americans to register to vote, to 0:41:21.719 --> 0:41:25.120 stay registered to vote, or to actually cast your ballot. 0:41:25.160 --> 0:41:27.880 That's just part of it. The Department of Justice, and 0:41:27.920 --> 0:41:30.279 I'm a member of the Judiciary. I've seen it up 0:41:30.320 --> 0:41:34.760 close and personal. They're politicizing the Department of Justice now, 0:41:35.080 --> 0:41:36.919 just like they did in the first Trump term, trying 0:41:36.920 --> 0:41:41.480 to obtain all the personal information of voters in select 0:41:41.520 --> 0:41:44.720 states to try to tee up the purging of voter rules, 0:41:45.120 --> 0:41:48.480 and on top of that this redistricting push. I mean, 0:41:48.520 --> 0:41:50.440 I don't know about you, but when I first saw 0:41:50.480 --> 0:41:53.600 the news report of Trump calling Governor Abbott in Texas 0:41:53.600 --> 0:41:58.520 saying five more Republican seats, it sounded a lot like 0:41:58.719 --> 0:42:01.160 when Donald Trump called this Secretary of State in Georgia 0:42:01.200 --> 0:42:04.720 in twenty twenty, when he said, find me eleven thousand 0:42:04.760 --> 0:42:08.839 more votes. They'll do anything to cling to power. That's 0:42:08.880 --> 0:42:11.960 what this is. And so as I try to sum 0:42:11.960 --> 0:42:14.799 it up to folks when I'm walking around, you know, 0:42:14.840 --> 0:42:18.359 if you care about reining in this administration that has overreached, 0:42:18.560 --> 0:42:22.840 violated through process and the constitution with their mass deportation agenda, 0:42:23.200 --> 0:42:25.920 If you care about the rising cost of groceries and 0:42:25.960 --> 0:42:28.360 housing and health care and energy and so much more, 0:42:28.960 --> 0:42:30.680 and you want to do something about it, you got 0:42:30.680 --> 0:42:33.359 to support Prop fifty. If you care about the rule 0:42:33.400 --> 0:42:38.319 of law and you know, defending the principles of our constitution, 0:42:38.960 --> 0:42:42.120 you have to support Prop fifty. It's the biggest check, 0:42:42.520 --> 0:42:46.919 it's the strongest guard rails against this out of control administration. 0:42:47.719 --> 0:42:51.000 Yeah, I mean, you mentioned redistricting, and obviously this is 0:42:51.000 --> 0:42:54.680 what you know. Prop fifty is about. But Republicans will say, oh, 0:42:54.760 --> 0:42:57.719 this is the Democrats cheating, et cetera, et cetera. Right, 0:42:58.160 --> 0:43:00.960 this is not at all with the Democrats wanted. This 0:43:01.520 --> 0:43:04.719 was triggered by what they did in Texas. The Democrats 0:43:04.719 --> 0:43:08.120 have been the ones advocating for fair maps. Can you 0:43:08.560 --> 0:43:10.360 talk to that And what would you say to a 0:43:10.360 --> 0:43:12.960 Republican who says, oh, no, this is the Democrats cheating, 0:43:13.440 --> 0:43:15.400 or people in the state of California who think I 0:43:15.400 --> 0:43:18.080 can't vote yes on this because this isn't fair. 0:43:18.440 --> 0:43:21.920 Yeah, So be absolutely crystal clear on this. The only 0:43:22.040 --> 0:43:26.400 reason we are moving on Proposition fifty is in response 0:43:27.480 --> 0:43:31.919 to the abuse of power in Texas. You know, again 0:43:31.960 --> 0:43:34.640 at the behest of Donald Trump. And by the way, 0:43:34.760 --> 0:43:38.719 whether California would have responded to this or not, Republicans 0:43:38.760 --> 0:43:42.120 were going to stop in Texas. They saw five potential 0:43:42.200 --> 0:43:45.120 seats to pick up in Texas. But as we've seen 0:43:45.239 --> 0:43:49.520 in recent days and weeks, they're also looking to redistricts 0:43:49.560 --> 0:43:54.840 and are redistricting in Missouri and in Indiana and in Ohio. 0:43:54.920 --> 0:43:59.080 They're going to stop nowhere in their desperate efforts to 0:43:59.160 --> 0:44:02.080 cling to power. What California did is sight at the 0:44:02.239 --> 0:44:05.960 very beginning, they're going into Texas to try to rig 0:44:06.000 --> 0:44:09.719 the system. As much as we support independent redistricting and 0:44:09.800 --> 0:44:12.640 all that stuff, the stakes are simply too high. The 0:44:12.680 --> 0:44:18.480 threat of this administration and its impact, the devastating impact 0:44:18.480 --> 0:44:21.120 on working fountains is too high. We can't sit idly 0:44:21.160 --> 0:44:23.360 by and just watch it happen. We have to respond, 0:44:23.640 --> 0:44:27.040 We have to fight back. And so yes, it took 0:44:27.040 --> 0:44:30.880 a lot, not just for the California Legislature, but Governor 0:44:30.920 --> 0:44:34.360 Knew some of the California and Congressional delegation to support 0:44:34.480 --> 0:44:36.279 this new MEP and take it to the voters, for 0:44:36.360 --> 0:44:39.360 the voters to decide whether we push back on Trump 0:44:39.560 --> 0:44:42.719 with Proposition fifty. The early polls are good, but as 0:44:42.760 --> 0:44:45.920 we said earlier, there's a lot of money that doesn't 0:44:45.960 --> 0:44:48.600 like what's happening, and there's going to be no less 0:44:48.640 --> 0:44:50.719 than one hundred and fifty million dollars, maybe two hundred 0:44:50.719 --> 0:44:55.799 million dollars against Proposition fifty, including Speaker Mike Johnson's pack 0:44:55.920 --> 0:44:59.760 money coming into California to try to defeat Proposition fifty. 0:45:00.160 --> 0:45:01.960 That's what we're up again. So let me take this 0:45:02.040 --> 0:45:06.319 opportunity for anybody tuning in however you can support. If 0:45:06.320 --> 0:45:08.719 you can't support, we need your support because we're up 0:45:08.760 --> 0:45:12.760 against a lot of big money. Who knows that California's 0:45:13.200 --> 0:45:16.480 move here is the big check against the Trump agenda. 0:45:16.560 --> 0:45:19.680 So we need your help volunteerism and activism on the 0:45:19.680 --> 0:45:22.279 ground of financial contribution if you can. 0:45:22.880 --> 0:45:24.680 With no further ado, I know that a lot of 0:45:24.719 --> 0:45:27.120 folks are very excited, So I'm going to introduce our 0:45:27.160 --> 0:45:27.879 next guest here. 0:45:27.960 --> 0:45:31.000 We've got Tim Fullerton. Tim helped start. 0:45:30.719 --> 0:45:33.239 This show, I should note first and foremost, so a 0:45:33.239 --> 0:45:38.560 big shout out to Tim. He also had a practice session, 0:45:38.600 --> 0:45:41.680 we can say, in launching White Dudes for Harris help 0:45:41.719 --> 0:45:43.799 that gain prominence, and he served many roles in the 0:45:43.800 --> 0:45:47.800 Obama administration. And importantly he started the find Out podcast, 0:45:47.840 --> 0:45:49.640 which I'm a huge fan of. And we need more 0:45:49.680 --> 0:45:52.719 folks in independent media. So I'm grateful that Tim and 0:45:52.760 --> 0:45:55.319 his co hosts have jumped into this space. And now 0:45:55.320 --> 0:45:57.920 we've got members of the West Wing cast, Deuleat Hill 0:45:57.960 --> 0:45:58.680 and Martin Sheen. 0:45:59.280 --> 0:46:00.680 I know that for so. 0:46:00.680 --> 0:46:03.600 Many people watching right now, you both are the platonic 0:46:03.680 --> 0:46:07.399 ideal of what politics can be. And most importantly, thank 0:46:07.400 --> 0:46:10.360 you for staying engaged and involved, because it would be 0:46:10.400 --> 0:46:13.759 really easy to just you know, show up on set, 0:46:13.840 --> 0:46:16.920 do your thing, make a great show, and kind of 0:46:17.040 --> 0:46:19.440 step back and fall back into, you know, just having 0:46:19.520 --> 0:46:22.040 been an actor. But the fact is that you're using 0:46:22.040 --> 0:46:25.120 your voices now for you know, to stay engaged in 0:46:25.200 --> 0:46:27.440 this political process, and so you know, on behalf of 0:46:27.440 --> 0:46:29.640 myself and everybody watching, thank you so much for doing 0:46:29.680 --> 0:46:33.799 that and looking forward to the conversation here all right. 0:46:34.239 --> 0:46:36.919 Yeah, you know, it's my pleasure to be here. 0:46:36.960 --> 0:46:39.960 I think it's important for all of us to actively 0:46:40.000 --> 0:46:43.279 stay involved in any way that we can, because when 0:46:43.280 --> 0:46:45.040 we take our eye off the ball, we take our 0:46:45.080 --> 0:46:48.120 eye off the prize, then you see what has what 0:46:48.280 --> 0:46:51.640 can happen, and it can happen swiftly. You know, when 0:46:51.640 --> 0:46:54.960 I saw the results of the election last year, I 0:46:55.040 --> 0:46:57.279 knew that there would be challenges. I knew that they 0:46:57.320 --> 0:47:00.680 would be an assault on our liberties, but I could 0:47:00.680 --> 0:47:05.360 not fathom what I'm seeing now. It really breaks my 0:47:05.440 --> 0:47:08.840 heart when I see our loss of humanity. I see 0:47:09.160 --> 0:47:12.520 how we are going to the extremes and we are 0:47:12.600 --> 0:47:16.839 find are lacking the ability to find common ground. I mean, 0:47:16.840 --> 0:47:19.560 we are one year in and these are trying times. 0:47:19.560 --> 0:47:21.040 And only way that I feel that we can even 0:47:21.120 --> 0:47:24.799 have some type of backstop to this onslaught that is 0:47:24.840 --> 0:47:28.360 happening is by winning in the mid terms. And I 0:47:28.400 --> 0:47:31.120 truly believe, I'll say to myself often I say to others, 0:47:31.120 --> 0:47:33.719 that democracy works when we, the people work it. 0:47:34.160 --> 0:47:37.000 That's how my democracy stays alive. 0:47:37.400 --> 0:47:39.160 And the only way that we can the best way 0:47:39.200 --> 0:47:41.120 for us to fight this battle for the soul of 0:47:41.160 --> 0:47:43.000 our nation, for the character of who. 0:47:42.880 --> 0:47:45.719 We are, is at the ballot box. That's what we 0:47:45.800 --> 0:47:46.239 have to do. 0:47:46.880 --> 0:47:51.399 And I truly believe that all things being equal, if 0:47:51.400 --> 0:47:56.359 we were given the opportunity to freely vote the way 0:47:56.400 --> 0:47:58.719 we have, then it would be a no brainer that 0:47:59.040 --> 0:48:01.680 the Democrats would win. There would be balance put back 0:48:01.719 --> 0:48:03.960 into the system, and that. 0:48:03.920 --> 0:48:04.400 Would be that. 0:48:04.760 --> 0:48:07.359 But I do believe that also that these extremist politicians 0:48:07.760 --> 0:48:10.440 are very aware that they cannot win the battle on 0:48:10.560 --> 0:48:11.080 their merits. 0:48:11.120 --> 0:48:13.920 They cannot win reelection on their merits. 0:48:14.040 --> 0:48:16.919 So the same people who a few years ago were 0:48:17.040 --> 0:48:20.920 crying about a stolen election and supported people who really 0:48:23.280 --> 0:48:26.040 acted in a way that was not supportive of our democracy, 0:48:26.600 --> 0:48:29.319 are now actually trying to steal an election. They're not 0:48:29.360 --> 0:48:32.560 even doing it in the shadows. They're being very overt 0:48:32.719 --> 0:48:37.719 about what they are doing, But what really, I guess 0:48:37.760 --> 0:48:39.640 affects me is that they're taking. 0:48:39.360 --> 0:48:40.840 Away the voice of the people. 0:48:41.200 --> 0:48:43.080 It's one thing if you were going to do this 0:48:43.120 --> 0:48:46.279 redishising plan and you were going to bring it to 0:48:46.280 --> 0:48:48.279 the citizens, like bring it to the citizens, that's how 0:48:48.280 --> 0:48:49.000 democracy works. 0:48:49.080 --> 0:48:50.080 Lets people talk about it. 0:48:50.400 --> 0:48:51.840 If you were doing it that way and then the 0:48:51.840 --> 0:48:53.959 people voted for that, I would have nothing to say. 0:48:54.480 --> 0:48:56.160 But the fact that they're doing it in the dark 0:48:56.239 --> 0:48:58.960 rooms of the legislatures across the country, at least in 0:48:58.960 --> 0:49:02.120 Texas now empty to do it in other places, that 0:49:02.239 --> 0:49:04.279 is where I think is a line too far. And 0:49:04.320 --> 0:49:06.960 I appreciate what the governor of California is doing, what 0:49:07.000 --> 0:49:10.000 the legislature here is doing, by giving us the power 0:49:10.040 --> 0:49:12.319 to have our voice be heard, by giving us a 0:49:12.360 --> 0:49:14.880 way to be able to stand up for ourselves, and 0:49:14.880 --> 0:49:17.600 by giving us a pathway to be able to keep 0:49:17.640 --> 0:49:20.719 our democracy alive. And that's the main reason why I'm here, 0:49:20.719 --> 0:49:22.480 is to play my part. I always say, if I 0:49:22.480 --> 0:49:24.960 can get a billion people to move a billion stones, 0:49:25.600 --> 0:49:27.640 then we can move a mountain. And I think in 0:49:27.680 --> 0:49:31.040 this situation, if we can get people to get involved, 0:49:31.040 --> 0:49:35.080 to get engaged, to support Yes on fifty here in California, 0:49:35.160 --> 0:49:38.320 and to use their voice across the nation. I believe 0:49:38.400 --> 0:49:40.920 the Democrats will get back the House, and at that 0:49:40.960 --> 0:49:43.040 point we can put some type of balance back into 0:49:43.080 --> 0:49:46.520 the system, because we've seen what happens when there is imbalance, 0:49:47.080 --> 0:49:49.120 and right now it is all out of whack and 0:49:49.120 --> 0:49:52.520 there's too much extremism happening in our politics right now. 0:49:52.840 --> 0:49:55.000 So that's why I'm here and I'm always down to 0:49:55.040 --> 0:49:56.000 support in any way I can. 0:49:56.719 --> 0:49:58.759 Well, thank you, Julia, and it's all of that was 0:49:58.800 --> 0:50:00.799 really well said, and I think it's really important thing 0:50:00.840 --> 0:50:03.160 that you mentioned, which is, you know, Texas did this 0:50:03.280 --> 0:50:07.000 behind closed doors. You know, the Trump administration called Governor 0:50:07.040 --> 0:50:09.359 Abbott's team and said I need you to I need 0:50:09.400 --> 0:50:11.160 you to find five seats. He actually said it, I 0:50:11.200 --> 0:50:13.520 need you to find five seats for me, and then 0:50:13.560 --> 0:50:15.960 they did this unilaterally. And I think that that's why 0:50:16.000 --> 0:50:17.840 it's great that we're doing it and the GWAG Governor 0:50:17.880 --> 0:50:20.080 Newsom's doing it is the way to do it with 0:50:20.520 --> 0:50:24.360 a people powered movement, And so I want to turn 0:50:24.760 --> 0:50:27.600 so I think everybody on this call probably would prefer 0:50:28.320 --> 0:50:31.600 our next guest to actually be the president of the 0:50:31.719 --> 0:50:35.839 United States. At this moment, we have Martin Sheen, who 0:50:35.840 --> 0:50:38.160 has I think played a president twice and has been 0:50:38.200 --> 0:50:42.520 a chief of staff once and actually has been I believe, 0:50:43.120 --> 0:50:47.040 arrested more times than Donald Trump, but for very good 0:50:47.160 --> 0:50:50.960 reasons standing up for what's right. So Margie, thank you. 0:50:51.040 --> 0:50:52.520 It is an honor to speak to you. It would 0:50:52.560 --> 0:50:55.640 love to hear from you about why why voting yes 0:50:55.680 --> 0:50:57.200 on Prop fifty is so important? 0:50:57.920 --> 0:50:59.319 Well, thank you. 0:50:59.520 --> 0:51:00.160 Can you hear me? 0:51:00.600 --> 0:51:00.799 Yes? 0:51:00.880 --> 0:51:01.200 We can? 0:51:01.239 --> 0:51:05.000 All right? Good? Yeah, Renee left the room. My engineer 0:51:05.040 --> 0:51:09.759 here is my daughter who runs this machine. Frankly, I 0:51:11.280 --> 0:51:13.640 don't own a computer and I don't even know how 0:51:13.640 --> 0:51:15.560 to turn it on if I did have one, so 0:51:15.600 --> 0:51:18.600 I'm counting on my family. Here is Delay. Well know, 0:51:18.719 --> 0:51:22.440 he's good to see you again. Delay. Thank you for 0:51:22.440 --> 0:51:26.360 including me in this effort. You know, I've been involved 0:51:26.480 --> 0:51:32.800 in supporting liberal politics, democratic politics, specifically with the possible 0:51:32.840 --> 0:51:35.040 exception of John Lindsay when he ran from mayor in 0:51:35.120 --> 0:51:37.920 nineteen sixty five in New York, I supported him, But 0:51:38.040 --> 0:51:41.080 also that same year I supported Bobby Kennedy in his 0:51:41.200 --> 0:51:46.719 race for the US Senate, and so this is not 0:51:48.320 --> 0:51:54.440 you know, unusual for me to be involved, and not 0:51:54.520 --> 0:51:57.480 just in democratic politics, but in peace and social justice 0:51:57.680 --> 0:52:02.560 issues because I can't really separate them. And what the 0:52:03.239 --> 0:52:07.960 our governor here in California so bravely did was to 0:52:08.080 --> 0:52:14.319 stand up to the landslide of effort and lies that 0:52:14.400 --> 0:52:18.560 are that are pulling the the Constitution and the Bill 0:52:18.600 --> 0:52:22.600 of Rights down the tubes. And so our effort is 0:52:22.640 --> 0:52:24.840 to put a stop to it and to retrieve as 0:52:24.920 --> 0:52:27.200 much as we possibly can. I've never seen it this 0:52:27.320 --> 0:52:29.839 bad in my life, frankly. And you know, we've been 0:52:29.880 --> 0:52:36.280 watching the opposition to Proposition fifty on every local channel 0:52:36.320 --> 0:52:40.399 we have, and some of the uh, the streamers as 0:52:40.440 --> 0:52:44.440 well adds against us voting to de vote no on 0:52:44.560 --> 0:52:49.600 fifty and there their reasoning is that it's undemocratic to 0:52:50.080 --> 0:52:53.120 you know, jurymander here and how dare we do this? 0:52:53.160 --> 0:52:56.520 Why we we we should stand up as patriotic Americans 0:52:56.520 --> 0:52:59.719 and stop this. There's not a mention of Texas or 0:52:59.760 --> 0:53:03.200 the possibility of Missouri or Ohio, got forbid my home 0:53:03.239 --> 0:53:08.120 state or Indiana, and so, uh, we have to, you know, 0:53:08.200 --> 0:53:08.640 we have to. 0:53:09.360 --> 0:53:10.719 We can't always. 0:53:10.440 --> 0:53:15.680 Choose our fights very often were we are called to 0:53:15.760 --> 0:53:19.759 fight in foreign lands on with with with with with 0:53:20.680 --> 0:53:24.080 unfamiliar ground, and this is one of those times. We've 0:53:24.120 --> 0:53:27.840 never been in this situation before. I've watched this administratives, 0:53:27.960 --> 0:53:33.920 watching Caspital being drilled by our good senator from UH, 0:53:34.000 --> 0:53:38.400 you know, UH California today and and I don't know 0:53:38.440 --> 0:53:41.120 if any of you saw the exchange between the two 0:53:41.160 --> 0:53:46.400 of them and made the national news, but that level 0:53:46.960 --> 0:53:51.000 of ahead of the FBI or any of the other 0:53:51.080 --> 0:53:55.919 agencies is astonishing to me. There is no possible way 0:53:56.000 --> 0:53:58.239 that any of these people at the head of any 0:53:58.280 --> 0:54:02.400 of the UH, the CAB and its ministries that we 0:54:02.440 --> 0:54:05.719 have right now would ever make it in any other administration. 0:54:05.960 --> 0:54:09.600 Mac Donald Trump. And when they look at each other 0:54:10.239 --> 0:54:16.719 across the room around in the cabinet room, and they 0:54:16.760 --> 0:54:18.840 look at each other, they don't see anyone on the 0:54:18.880 --> 0:54:23.120 other side back and forth that is better than they are, 0:54:23.480 --> 0:54:28.319 is more heroic, has more courage. They in a real sense, 0:54:28.400 --> 0:54:31.320 I suspect they despise each other because there isn't anyone 0:54:31.360 --> 0:54:33.279 on the other side that is better than they are. 0:54:33.520 --> 0:54:36.440 And they are looking at the worst reflection of themselves, 0:54:36.600 --> 0:54:40.560 and they are reflecting the policy that we're seeing that 0:54:40.800 --> 0:54:48.120 they refer to about the scandalous mask bandits as draving 0:54:48.239 --> 0:54:55.960 people of our streets in public and disappearing people. And 0:54:56.040 --> 0:55:00.239 you know, so often when people are in the and 0:55:00.719 --> 0:55:03.480 in normal times, if you want to call it normal, 0:55:03.520 --> 0:55:06.040 when people were deported, they usually went back to the 0:55:06.040 --> 0:55:10.600 country they came from. Now they're being sent basically, they're 0:55:10.640 --> 0:55:13.880 being punished because very often they're being sent to countries 0:55:13.880 --> 0:55:19.600 that have you know, they're foreign to them, they don't 0:55:19.640 --> 0:55:21.960 have the same language, the same culture, and they are 0:55:22.400 --> 0:55:25.360 thousands and thousands of miles away from their two homes. 0:55:25.840 --> 0:55:29.160 And this has become normal. We are what we're seeing. 0:55:29.200 --> 0:55:34.440 We saw that, you know, the when the Marines marched 0:55:34.440 --> 0:55:38.800 through our downtown park, it was literally a walk in 0:55:38.840 --> 0:55:41.440 the park. There was no there was no reason for 0:55:41.520 --> 0:55:44.399 them to be there. It is a All that we're 0:55:44.440 --> 0:55:47.200 seeing is a reflection of a strong man trying to 0:55:47.239 --> 0:55:49.520 get a grip and it's slipping out of his hands. 0:55:49.719 --> 0:55:52.800 Chicago stood up and said, no, please, don't come here, 0:55:52.920 --> 0:55:54.759 and we're going to give you every reason why we 0:55:54.840 --> 0:55:59.000 don't need you. We've got good law enforcement, we've got 0:55:59.040 --> 0:56:02.160 good sanitation here, we've got good health care. You're not 0:56:02.280 --> 0:56:04.880 needed here, Please stay home, look after your families and 0:56:04.960 --> 0:56:08.840 your states. And so we don't have any choice but 0:56:08.960 --> 0:56:12.080 to go in the direction that we're being called by 0:56:12.160 --> 0:56:14.960 Governor Newsom. And I dare say, and maybe I shouldn't 0:56:15.000 --> 0:56:18.400 say this of him, but I think this move was 0:56:18.480 --> 0:56:20.920 his declaration for the White House. I think he's going 0:56:21.000 --> 0:56:23.719 to run, and more power to him, and he will 0:56:23.760 --> 0:56:27.160 have this to his credit. So I'm urging people to 0:56:27.280 --> 0:56:30.480 deal with what we have, not with what we wish 0:56:30.520 --> 0:56:33.200 we had or what we had in the past, but 0:56:33.320 --> 0:56:37.680 what we have now, which is this opportunity to stop 0:56:38.239 --> 0:56:46.080 this basic thievery. The you know, Thomas Paine said, the 0:56:46.160 --> 0:56:49.040 rights of man are not given by the gracious hand 0:56:49.080 --> 0:56:52.919 of any state, but must be protected therein. And this 0:56:53.000 --> 0:56:56.440 is where we have to rise and embrace our constitution 0:56:56.560 --> 0:56:59.240 and bring us all together with what really is at stake. 0:56:59.400 --> 0:57:03.760 We're facing an out of control, chaotic uh, a madman 0:57:04.200 --> 0:57:07.200 who wakes up every day and thinks of a different 0:57:07.320 --> 0:57:12.920 level of chaos. And his his uh UH, his cabinet members, 0:57:13.320 --> 0:57:16.320 all the people and in his administration pick up the 0:57:16.360 --> 0:57:18.400 lot and they carry it out, and they are all 0:57:18.440 --> 0:57:20.960 a reflection of him. But I think we're better than that, 0:57:21.400 --> 0:57:23.280 and I think we can we can build a better 0:57:23.320 --> 0:57:27.560 future and can end the chaos and end the despair 0:57:28.240 --> 0:57:34.640 and the uh, the feelings of that we that we 0:57:34.640 --> 0:57:38.120 we don't have any power left. Look at Chicago just 0:57:38.200 --> 0:57:40.640 this week, the mad Man turned around and said, well, 0:57:40.640 --> 0:57:43.840 I guess I'm not welcome there. Let's find so Memphis. Oh, yes, 0:57:43.880 --> 0:57:46.840 of course Memphis. I can do well there. Well, let's 0:57:46.880 --> 0:57:51.680 see what happens. But what Governor Newsom has done here 0:57:51.880 --> 0:57:55.120 in California has struck a chord. It has lit a 0:57:55.160 --> 0:57:59.360 candle in this darkness. And I pray and hope that 0:57:59.440 --> 0:58:03.840 people what's possible and that we can turn this thing around. 0:58:04.080 --> 0:58:07.160 And this is one very important issue for the whole 0:58:07.200 --> 0:58:11.160 country to look at and to follow. Yes on fifty 0:58:11.720 --> 0:58:13.320 please God, Yes. 0:58:13.960 --> 0:58:15.080 Well well said. 0:58:15.280 --> 0:58:18.320 And for those of you who haven't donated yet, which 0:58:18.360 --> 0:58:21.120 I don't know how you could not donate after listening 0:58:21.160 --> 0:58:25.880 to that, please go to yeson fifty live dot com. 0:58:26.000 --> 0:58:28.880 Push us over the three hundred thousand mark. All of 0:58:28.920 --> 0:58:32.200 this money is is coming from individuals giving five, ten, 0:58:32.280 --> 0:58:35.120 fifteen to twenty dollars, and we are fighting against people 0:58:35.120 --> 0:58:37.520 who are writing quarter million dollar checks, million dollar checks. 0:58:37.880 --> 0:58:41.480 We are going to win this, and I think before 0:58:41.560 --> 0:58:43.880 we go, I just want to ask one more question 0:58:43.960 --> 0:58:47.040 for both both of you. Is you gave us a 0:58:47.080 --> 0:58:49.600 little bit of hope there. And you know, I think 0:58:49.600 --> 0:58:52.720 the West Wing Show was something that I watched in 0:58:52.760 --> 0:58:55.640 high school and then ended up going into politics. Who 0:58:55.640 --> 0:58:58.880 worked in the Obama administration and things like that leave 0:58:58.960 --> 0:59:01.360 us with something. You know, Martin, you left us something. 0:59:01.120 --> 0:59:02.480 Really hopeful and powerful. 0:59:02.520 --> 0:59:02.840 Delay. 0:59:02.880 --> 0:59:04.160 I'm going to give it to you the last bit 0:59:04.160 --> 0:59:07.040 because I know we got a bounce because we've got Congressman, 0:59:07.520 --> 0:59:10.320 Congressman Rasking and Congressman and Crockett on who by the way, 0:59:10.720 --> 0:59:13.880 if you if we win this ballot initiative, they're going 0:59:13.960 --> 0:59:16.000 to be the ones subpoena and they're the ones that they're 0:59:16.000 --> 0:59:18.280 going to be asking questions of the Trump administration. So, Doulee, 0:59:18.320 --> 0:59:19.360 I'm going to give you the last word. 0:59:19.840 --> 0:59:22.480 I'll say this, the power is in our hands. You know, 0:59:22.640 --> 0:59:25.040 there's nothing that if a bunch of people get together, 0:59:25.040 --> 0:59:27.400 there's nothing that we cannot overcome. I said before a 0:59:27.400 --> 0:59:29.240 billion people to move a billion stones, then we can 0:59:29.240 --> 0:59:32.360 move a mountain. And even in these dark times when 0:59:32.400 --> 0:59:35.040 the cloud is hovering above the clouds of extremism, the 0:59:35.040 --> 0:59:37.840 clouds of hate, the clouds of division. Just beyond those 0:59:37.840 --> 0:59:40.280 storm clouds, the sun is always shining. So if we 0:59:40.280 --> 0:59:42.680 could just keep preacient, keep putting one foot in front 0:59:42.680 --> 0:59:45.120 of the other, keep our eyes on the prize, I know 0:59:45.160 --> 0:59:48.680 that we will be victorious. America always has, America will 0:59:48.800 --> 0:59:51.360 now today, and America always will and now tomorrow, as 0:59:51.360 --> 0:59:52.680 long as we stay engaged. 0:59:52.760 --> 0:59:53.600 So let's vote. 0:59:55.080 --> 0:59:59.840 I would only yeah, I would only add, just very simply, 1:00:00.520 --> 1:00:05.360 Fear is useless, faith is necessary. Yes, on fifty. 1:00:06.520 --> 1:00:07.560 Awesome, We'll leave it there. 1:00:07.680 --> 1:00:09.040 I was trying. 1:00:09.320 --> 1:00:10.840 I was gonna say, I was trying a bit where 1:00:10.840 --> 1:00:11.440 I was standing. 1:00:11.480 --> 1:00:12.840 You can't really see it in the zoom, but I 1:00:12.840 --> 1:00:14.960 was about to say, in this building, when the president stands, 1:00:14.960 --> 1:00:15.720 nobody sits. 1:00:18.160 --> 1:00:22.520 Okay, what's next? That was awesome. 1:00:22.520 --> 1:00:24.920 My nod to you, Thank you, thank you all for 1:00:25.040 --> 1:00:25.840 the time tonight. 1:00:25.920 --> 1:00:28.400 We appreciate it. And Tim, thank you so much. 1:00:28.680 --> 1:00:31.040 Thank you very well, thank you so much, all the 1:00:31.080 --> 1:00:31.800 best of everybody. 1:00:32.040 --> 1:00:35.440 Very excited to introduce our next two. We have Olivia Juliana. 1:00:36.160 --> 1:00:40.080 I first learned of Olivia when Matt Gates tried to 1:00:40.160 --> 1:00:43.840 mock her online, and she used his mockery to raise 1:00:43.880 --> 1:00:47.480 over two million dollars for abortion rights. So what a 1:00:47.520 --> 1:00:50.280 badass move. And he's out of Congress, and so you 1:00:50.360 --> 1:00:54.720 got the last laugh. Juliana is a political activist, abortion 1:00:54.840 --> 1:00:58.920 rights advocate, and a strategist from Texas, so knows firsthand 1:00:59.000 --> 1:01:01.360 about all the bullshit that's going on right now. She 1:01:01.480 --> 1:01:04.200 was formerly the director of Politics and Government Affairs at 1:01:04.280 --> 1:01:05.200 gen Z for Change. 1:01:05.200 --> 1:01:06.760 And she's a dear friend of mine. 1:01:06.840 --> 1:01:10.080 Very happy to have you, and of course a congresswoman 1:01:10.120 --> 1:01:14.320 who needs no introduction. Very excited to be introducing Representative 1:01:14.360 --> 1:01:17.280 Jasmine Crockett. She is one of my favorite people in 1:01:17.320 --> 1:01:21.640 elected office. She is a badass, a fighter, and attorney, 1:01:21.920 --> 1:01:25.280 one of the most dynamic and interesting and engaging voices 1:01:25.320 --> 1:01:27.480 that we have on the left. Could not be more 1:01:27.520 --> 1:01:29.280 excited to listen to your conversation here. 1:01:31.440 --> 1:01:35.760 Thank you, Brian Well Congresswoman Crockett. 1:01:36.120 --> 1:01:39.240 It sure seems like everyone's got something to say about our. 1:01:39.120 --> 1:01:40.080 Home now, don't they. 1:01:40.800 --> 1:01:44.080 Yeah, forget reason though, it is a hot ass, miss, 1:01:44.640 --> 1:01:48.360 But I am so thankful for California, and not only for. 1:01:48.320 --> 1:01:50.840 The leadership, real leadership. Do we need in this moment, 1:01:51.280 --> 1:01:52.600 but also for the people. 1:01:53.160 --> 1:01:55.320 You know, this is something that is going to be 1:01:55.360 --> 1:01:58.480 people led, people driven, and ultimately the people will decide. 1:01:59.000 --> 1:02:02.320 And with everything that I've seen about the pushback that 1:02:02.360 --> 1:02:02.840 we are. 1:02:02.720 --> 1:02:06.120 Delivering to this regime that is currently in power, I 1:02:06.160 --> 1:02:07.440 am believing. 1:02:07.000 --> 1:02:10.720 That the people of California are woke enough to know 1:02:11.280 --> 1:02:14.120 that it is time to fight fire with fire. And 1:02:14.160 --> 1:02:16.200 what that means for those in the back that don't 1:02:16.240 --> 1:02:19.720 understand my language, what that means is that if Texas 1:02:19.800 --> 1:02:25.160 is going to redistrict and Jerrymander and also silence the 1:02:25.240 --> 1:02:30.080 voices of black and brown communities, that California will also 1:02:30.320 --> 1:02:33.800 make sure that they give more voice to their constituents 1:02:34.360 --> 1:02:36.000 in the form of Prop. 1:02:36.080 --> 1:02:36.480 Fifty. 1:02:36.960 --> 1:02:39.680 And so this is just in response to make sure 1:02:40.040 --> 1:02:43.560 that those bad policies that they are currently signing up 1:02:43.600 --> 1:02:47.000 for that they actually have some accountability, because that's what 1:02:47.040 --> 1:02:49.520 democracy looks like. The final thing that I'll say so 1:02:49.560 --> 1:02:51.080 that you can go on with their question is that 1:02:51.200 --> 1:02:54.240 today was very interesting. It's always interested on the. 1:02:54.200 --> 1:02:56.360 Hill or how to have missed, either way you want 1:02:56.400 --> 1:02:56.840 to look at it. 1:02:56.840 --> 1:03:01.120 But nevertheless, so we're there and we were voting on 1:03:01.160 --> 1:03:04.760 a rule for a bill, and I was like, what's 1:03:04.800 --> 1:03:07.520 taking so long? Because I was ready to go debate 1:03:07.680 --> 1:03:09.800 the next thing. I just knew it was gonna pass, 1:03:09.840 --> 1:03:13.200 they were gonna vote it, but it wasn't. It wasn't passing. 1:03:13.840 --> 1:03:16.440 And in fact, this rule was going down and there 1:03:16.440 --> 1:03:20.280 were like six Republicans they voted with the Democrats. So 1:03:20.360 --> 1:03:23.600 it was like, well, who are the six Republicans. Well, 1:03:23.640 --> 1:03:28.080 of the six, I think three or four were out 1:03:28.160 --> 1:03:32.720 of California. So we can see that even the threat 1:03:32.880 --> 1:03:36.960 of actually holding them accountable has made them start to 1:03:37.040 --> 1:03:40.320 shift how they're voting. In fact, they were able to 1:03:40.360 --> 1:03:42.720 get enough to switch over so that they could go 1:03:42.760 --> 1:03:43.720 ahead and. 1:03:43.680 --> 1:03:44.520 Pass the rule. 1:03:45.120 --> 1:03:51.480 But one of the loudest kind of upset people, Kevin Kylee. 1:03:51.920 --> 1:03:54.760 He did not change his vote because he plans to run. 1:03:54.800 --> 1:03:56.960 He knows it's going to be an uphill battle, and 1:03:57.040 --> 1:04:00.160 now he believes that he should be held accountable or 1:04:00.560 --> 1:04:01.320 how he votes. 1:04:01.360 --> 1:04:03.120 But my question is, bro, where. 1:04:02.880 --> 1:04:03.439 Have you been. 1:04:04.200 --> 1:04:05.920 You should have been voting in the interest of your 1:04:05.960 --> 1:04:09.440 constituents anyway. So I'll just leave it there right now, 1:04:09.600 --> 1:04:12.520 even without this thing going to the ballot, they. 1:04:12.360 --> 1:04:14.000 Are having an impact. 1:04:14.560 --> 1:04:17.160 Well, I'll say this. You know, behind me, I have 1:04:17.360 --> 1:04:20.200 portraits of Anne Richards and Barbara Jordan, And if you're 1:04:20.200 --> 1:04:22.200 watching and you don't know who they are, look them up. 1:04:23.040 --> 1:04:25.400 And it's because of women like this, women like you. 1:04:25.680 --> 1:04:26.920 I'm glad that you're on. 1:04:26.920 --> 1:04:32.600 My side because I was at the public redistricting hearings 1:04:32.680 --> 1:04:35.280 that were held here in Texas about these maps. I 1:04:35.320 --> 1:04:37.360 was at the one at the state Capitol, and I 1:04:37.400 --> 1:04:40.560 was at the one in Houston, and so I sat 1:04:40.600 --> 1:04:45.160 through ten hours of public testimony from Texans all over 1:04:45.200 --> 1:04:49.120 the state who sat there and begged, begged for our 1:04:49.160 --> 1:04:52.280 Republican lawmakers to have a conscience and to do the 1:04:52.360 --> 1:04:55.040 right thing. And they sat there and I'll be honest 1:04:55.040 --> 1:04:57.560 with y'all, they didn't care. They didn't care. They had 1:04:57.600 --> 1:04:59.800 made their minds up before they walked into that room. 1:05:00.160 --> 1:05:04.360 And I think that you are the most uniquely positioned 1:05:04.400 --> 1:05:08.280 person in the country to really give people insight into 1:05:08.800 --> 1:05:12.160 what the Texas legislature looks like, what Congress looks like, 1:05:12.200 --> 1:05:14.440 and what this means for the rest of the country. 1:05:14.440 --> 1:05:16.920 Because not only are you a member of Congress from 1:05:16.960 --> 1:05:20.360 Texas you had your district redistricted, but you were also 1:05:20.480 --> 1:05:24.760 a member of the Texas legislature. So what is the 1:05:24.760 --> 1:05:27.760 big picture here that people may not be understanding and 1:05:27.840 --> 1:05:30.200 why is Texas so important in this conversation. 1:05:31.000 --> 1:05:32.480 Yeah, that's a very good point. 1:05:33.000 --> 1:05:38.200 First of all, my favorite organization is the Heritage Foundation, 1:05:39.520 --> 1:05:44.360 and usually I feel like Texas becomes the crash dummy 1:05:44.840 --> 1:05:48.840 for every single bad type of legislation that they want 1:05:48.880 --> 1:05:53.120 to try out throughout the South. And so this is 1:05:53.120 --> 1:05:56.480 no different right as it's already been laid out by 1:05:56.480 --> 1:06:00.400 my colleagues that they started in Texas, but they were 1:06:00.440 --> 1:06:03.760 definitely never planning to end in Texas. And if anybody 1:06:03.800 --> 1:06:07.560 believes that there's something that California did that made them say, well, 1:06:07.560 --> 1:06:10.000 now we've got to do more, No, this was always 1:06:10.040 --> 1:06:12.640 their plan. The plan was to start in Texas, but 1:06:12.720 --> 1:06:15.040 then it was to move on to Missouri, it was 1:06:15.080 --> 1:06:17.920 to move on to Indiana. They even were trying to 1:06:17.960 --> 1:06:21.040 go after Clyburn in South Carolina. They're planning to go 1:06:21.080 --> 1:06:23.840 after Florida. They are trying to do this any and 1:06:23.960 --> 1:06:26.440 everywhere that they think they can get away with it, 1:06:26.880 --> 1:06:29.480 and so they wanted to test it out in Texas. 1:06:29.480 --> 1:06:30.280 That's number one. 1:06:30.600 --> 1:06:33.960 Number two, We literally have people that are elected to 1:06:34.080 --> 1:06:36.680 office that are supposed to represent the interests of the 1:06:36.720 --> 1:06:39.920 people that put them into office. And as we both 1:06:39.960 --> 1:06:44.760 sat through hearings, because I attended more than one hearing myself, 1:06:45.280 --> 1:06:49.080 you know, it was interesting to have Representative a Suit 1:06:49.560 --> 1:06:52.600 who was leading those field hearings and leading the redistrict 1:06:52.640 --> 1:06:56.600 saying my class made to the Texas House pretend that 1:06:56.640 --> 1:06:59.520 he had no recollection of anything. 1:06:58.960 --> 1:07:00.800 That took place in twenty twenty one. 1:07:01.200 --> 1:07:04.440 Now, listen, I've never professed to have the best memory, 1:07:04.840 --> 1:07:07.800 but I can remember, like yesterday, being on the floor 1:07:08.440 --> 1:07:12.120 arguing with the Republicans telling them that we had grown 1:07:12.200 --> 1:07:15.280 the state by ninety five percent people of color. So 1:07:15.360 --> 1:07:17.880 the idea that we got two new seats because of 1:07:17.920 --> 1:07:21.560 the growth that Texas experienced where we added over four 1:07:21.600 --> 1:07:25.760 million people over the last decade once we completed our census, 1:07:26.360 --> 1:07:30.040 and ultimately we got two new Anglo seats, that's that 1:07:30.160 --> 1:07:31.000 Republican math. 1:07:31.120 --> 1:07:33.280 That's that is that Republican math. 1:07:33.880 --> 1:07:38.560 Right, these were Anglo majority seats that they ended up creating, 1:07:39.200 --> 1:07:42.320 and they're just like, yeah, okay, it worked out. We 1:07:42.360 --> 1:07:45.400 added one hundred and eighty thousand Anglos in a decade. 1:07:45.840 --> 1:07:49.440 Each congressional seat is seven hundred and sixty six thousand people. 1:07:49.760 --> 1:07:51.760 So you tell me, in fact that it is a 1:07:51.800 --> 1:07:54.880 microcosm of what they are doing right now. You tell 1:07:54.960 --> 1:07:58.080 me how one hundred and eighty thousand people end up 1:07:58.120 --> 1:08:01.440 with two seats where they're the major majority and the 1:08:01.480 --> 1:08:04.720 seats are seven hundred and sixty six thousand people. That 1:08:04.920 --> 1:08:07.600 is what they are doing. They're not only doing Donald 1:08:07.640 --> 1:08:11.600 Trump's bidding, but it's at the expense of so many 1:08:11.760 --> 1:08:16.400 communities they've already been disenfranchised. Texas has over four million 1:08:16.479 --> 1:08:20.120 African Americans, more African Americans than any other state. We 1:08:20.200 --> 1:08:23.320 had five African Americans that had been elected to Congress. 1:08:23.479 --> 1:08:26.120 When Colin already ended up running for the Senate, he 1:08:26.280 --> 1:08:29.360 was replaced by a non African American, which is perfectly fine. 1:08:29.880 --> 1:08:33.920 We then ended up down to four African Americans. Okay, 1:08:34.400 --> 1:08:36.360 now what they're saying is we're going to cut that 1:08:36.400 --> 1:08:41.040 into two. You'll only have an opportunity to elect Al 1:08:41.120 --> 1:08:44.439 Green or whoever wins the eighteenth. And really what they're 1:08:44.439 --> 1:08:46.519 trying to do is set it up to where it's 1:08:46.600 --> 1:08:51.400 most likely me or Mark VC in the Dallas area. 1:08:51.960 --> 1:08:55.240 So you explained to me how on God's green Earth 1:08:55.800 --> 1:08:59.679 in a state in which Angloes were not growing at all. 1:09:00.120 --> 1:09:04.000 And we know that if we look at which group 1:09:04.160 --> 1:09:06.640 has the vast majority, not the vast majority, but has 1:09:06.680 --> 1:09:11.080 the plurality of representation, it's actually Latinos in the state 1:09:11.120 --> 1:09:16.080 of Sexes. Latinos have the largest demographic in the entire state. 1:09:16.160 --> 1:09:19.120 Do they have the largest demographic of opportunities to lay 1:09:19.160 --> 1:09:19.920 people to Congress? 1:09:20.000 --> 1:09:20.640 Absolutely not. 1:09:21.439 --> 1:09:23.680 In fact, we are a majority minority state, we are 1:09:23.720 --> 1:09:28.599 sixty forty. Yet somehow after these maps were done, we're 1:09:28.640 --> 1:09:32.599 looking at having less minorities being. 1:09:32.439 --> 1:09:33.880 Able to choose their representation. 1:09:34.040 --> 1:09:38.599 So I want to say that this is bigger than 1:09:39.240 --> 1:09:41.840 my state, your state. This is about us as the 1:09:41.960 --> 1:09:44.479 United States and what it is that we are fighting for. 1:09:44.960 --> 1:09:47.719 There is only one side that is willing to stand 1:09:47.840 --> 1:09:50.640 up to this regime. There is only one side that 1:09:50.760 --> 1:09:52.960 is willing to conduct investigations. 1:09:52.960 --> 1:09:54.000 There is only one. 1:09:53.840 --> 1:09:58.519 Side that is willing to hold their incompetency and their 1:09:58.560 --> 1:09:59.559 feet to the fire. 1:10:00.080 --> 1:10:01.519 There's only one side. 1:10:01.880 --> 1:10:05.200 And so while people haven't started to feel the effects 1:10:05.240 --> 1:10:06.040 of being kicked. 1:10:05.800 --> 1:10:07.680 Off their healthcare, they're about to. 1:10:08.280 --> 1:10:11.439 While people may not have fully felt the effects of 1:10:11.520 --> 1:10:16.479 the increases in their utility bills they're about to while 1:10:16.560 --> 1:10:20.360 people already know that these tariffs are already hitting and 1:10:20.439 --> 1:10:23.479 creating pretty hard to the extent that they are shutting 1:10:23.479 --> 1:10:28.080 down our small businesses, and our farm bankruptcies are up 1:10:28.320 --> 1:10:32.240 fifty eight, fifty five or fifty eight percent, don't remember 1:10:32.240 --> 1:10:37.200 which one. Already, our farmers are filing for bankruptcy. Yo, Like, 1:10:37.280 --> 1:10:39.360 we are in a crisis, and it is because the 1:10:39.400 --> 1:10:42.200 Republicans don't have a backbone. So it's time to make 1:10:42.200 --> 1:10:44.920 sure that we show them that the Democrats are ready 1:10:44.960 --> 1:10:48.000 to fight. So that means that California, we need you 1:10:48.040 --> 1:10:48.639 in this moment. 1:10:48.680 --> 1:10:49.240 We need your. 1:10:49.160 --> 1:10:52.840 Dollars, we need your time, and we absolutely need your vote. 1:10:53.560 --> 1:10:56.400 Yeah, and I'll close this out with this. In a 1:10:56.439 --> 1:10:59.920 perfect world, we don't have to do mid decade redition. 1:11:00.439 --> 1:11:04.559 In a perfect world, partisan jerrymandering is banned. But also 1:11:04.600 --> 1:11:08.240 in a perfect world, women aren't losing their ability to 1:11:08.280 --> 1:11:11.840 have children because they're going into sepsis, and children in 1:11:11.920 --> 1:11:14.800 Texas are having books banned in their schools. These are 1:11:14.800 --> 1:11:16.840 the things that would happen in a perfect world. But 1:11:16.840 --> 1:11:18.879 we don't live in a perfect world. We live in reality. 1:11:19.000 --> 1:11:21.080 And so if you're not sure if you're going on 1:11:21.120 --> 1:11:24.799 this for you in California and how this benefits you, well, 1:11:24.960 --> 1:11:27.160 it benefits a lot of people, and it benefits people 1:11:27.240 --> 1:11:30.160 like me, young people who live in Texas where this 1:11:30.240 --> 1:11:32.400 is our reality every single day. And so you have 1:11:32.479 --> 1:11:34.960 a chance and an opportunity to not just set yourself 1:11:35.040 --> 1:11:37.960 up and your future for success, but for young people 1:11:38.000 --> 1:11:40.479 like me in this state of over thirty million people 1:11:40.560 --> 1:11:42.920 who just want the chance to build our own American 1:11:43.000 --> 1:11:44.360 dream perfectly. 1:11:44.320 --> 1:11:47.160 Well, thank you both. I appreciate you being on. Olivia 1:11:47.320 --> 1:11:48.519 Representative Crockett, thank you. 1:11:48.560 --> 1:11:49.280 Both for being here. 1:11:49.479 --> 1:11:52.519 Okay, very excited to introduce our next two guests. We 1:11:52.600 --> 1:11:55.479 have a dear friend of mine, Jack Kocchirella, who is 1:11:55.520 --> 1:11:58.719 a progressive political commentator. And I know he's laughing because 1:11:58.720 --> 1:12:00.400 I'm having a lot of trouble saying his life name. 1:12:00.960 --> 1:12:03.320 Is the first time I actually ever said is his 1:12:03.400 --> 1:12:07.160 last name out loud? But in my defense, in my defense, 1:12:07.360 --> 1:12:10.080 you guys look at co C H I A R 1:12:10.160 --> 1:12:12.120 E L L A and try to and try to 1:12:12.120 --> 1:12:12.360 do that. 1:12:13.200 --> 1:12:14.080 It just means you love me. 1:12:14.600 --> 1:12:15.439 That's it I do. 1:12:16.720 --> 1:12:19.800 He is everywhere online. I am so grateful for his 1:12:19.880 --> 1:12:22.080 voice in this independent media space. He is one of 1:12:22.080 --> 1:12:24.320 the people who gets it beyond everybody else. So Jack, 1:12:24.400 --> 1:12:25.920 thank you so much for the work that you're doing 1:12:26.120 --> 1:12:29.320 on a daily basis helping make our independent media's ecosystem 1:12:29.560 --> 1:12:32.439 stronger and stronger every single day. And now we have 1:12:32.600 --> 1:12:35.839 our first gen Z Member of Congress, Congressman Maxwell Frost. 1:12:36.680 --> 1:12:37.240 Congressman. 1:12:37.320 --> 1:12:39.880 My only hope is that the next generation of Democrats, 1:12:39.920 --> 1:12:43.160 which I hope we see uh start to happen in 1:12:43.240 --> 1:12:45.439 a big way in twenty twenty six, that they look 1:12:45.520 --> 1:12:47.759 a lot like you. So thank you for being fearless, 1:12:47.760 --> 1:12:50.479 thank you for being outspoken. Thank you for being a 1:12:50.560 --> 1:12:54.000 leader not just among folks in your generation, but in 1:12:54.040 --> 1:12:56.519 the party more broadly. So go ahead, I'll leave, I'll 1:12:56.600 --> 1:12:58.559 let it. I'll let you guys take it away from here. 1:12:58.920 --> 1:13:02.120 Absolutely. Thank you, Brian, You're in inspiration to Assaul. And 1:13:02.200 --> 1:13:03.880 maybe we're breaking a little bit of news here. I 1:13:03.880 --> 1:13:05.680 think I said this in our last interview, but I 1:13:05.720 --> 1:13:09.479 am with my member of Congress. That makes me very excited. 1:13:09.800 --> 1:13:11.640 We know the facts of this case, we know the 1:13:11.640 --> 1:13:15.040 facts of what's happening right now with this administration, and 1:13:15.200 --> 1:13:18.840 we are seeing a rise in a crisis of affordability. 1:13:18.840 --> 1:13:21.760 That's a fact. There's more law breaking under this administration 1:13:21.800 --> 1:13:22.360 than ever before. 1:13:22.400 --> 1:13:22.559 We know. 1:13:22.600 --> 1:13:25.120 It's a fact that Donald Trump, Greg Abbott they want 1:13:25.120 --> 1:13:28.760 to disenfranchise black and brown voters around the country. But 1:13:28.800 --> 1:13:31.320 I want to talk about feelings real quick, Congressman, how 1:13:31.360 --> 1:13:34.880 would you feel to make this guy right here, very 1:13:35.200 --> 1:13:36.160 very very sad. 1:13:36.200 --> 1:13:39.479 How would that make you feel? Because I think that's important. Yeah, 1:13:39.680 --> 1:13:40.799 I think it is really important. 1:13:40.840 --> 1:13:41.200 People know. 1:13:41.280 --> 1:13:42.920 It makes me feel amazing. 1:13:43.479 --> 1:13:45.439 And this is actually part of the reason we need 1:13:45.439 --> 1:13:49.479 to win the majority, because I promise you that one 1:13:49.520 --> 1:13:52.280 of the first people to receive us a poena will 1:13:52.280 --> 1:13:54.720 be Stephen Miller. Tell you guy is one of the 1:13:54.720 --> 1:13:58.599 most evil people, and not just in government but in 1:13:58.600 --> 1:14:01.840 this country, and we need to hold him accountable as well. 1:14:02.320 --> 1:14:04.320 And his suits they just they don't They don't fit 1:14:04.360 --> 1:14:04.599 at all. 1:14:04.640 --> 1:14:05.360 He looks terrible. 1:14:05.439 --> 1:14:08.880 I think it's because like the fabric is repelled by him. 1:14:08.920 --> 1:14:11.320 Like there's just got to be something about Steven Miller. 1:14:11.320 --> 1:14:13.240 I also just looking for looking at him. We don't 1:14:13.240 --> 1:14:15.000 get needed, like, you know, trash him personally, but I 1:14:15.000 --> 1:14:17.360 think we can. I bet he just doesn't smell great either. 1:14:17.439 --> 1:14:21.000 But of course Republicans aren't just focused on Texas. This 1:14:21.000 --> 1:14:23.000 this fight has spread or I guess it's not a 1:14:23.000 --> 1:14:25.800 fight we're taking on the fight. What they're doing is 1:14:25.800 --> 1:14:28.080 is a little bit different, but we certainly know that 1:14:28.120 --> 1:14:32.080 it wants to spread across the country. Ronda Santis certainly 1:14:32.720 --> 1:14:36.519 someone not not new to falling in line with Donald 1:14:36.520 --> 1:14:38.559 Trump and getting embarrassed because of it. 1:14:38.800 --> 1:14:40.960 How are we going to make sure. 1:14:40.800 --> 1:14:43.840 That this is is a tone setting moment in California 1:14:44.040 --> 1:14:46.840 telling the rest of Republicans across the country, Hey, if 1:14:46.880 --> 1:14:48.479 you I don't want to say it, you're fuck around 1:14:48.479 --> 1:14:50.200 you find out well. 1:14:50.280 --> 1:14:52.080 Yeah, and for people who don't know, you know, of 1:14:52.080 --> 1:14:55.479 course they're moving to moving forward Texas, they're trying to 1:14:55.479 --> 1:14:57.439 figure out other places they can do this as well. 1:14:57.520 --> 1:15:00.320 They're moving forward with this in Florida as well, and 1:15:00.479 --> 1:15:04.640 we have pulled it across the entire state. Democrats, Republicans, 1:15:04.840 --> 1:15:08.120 independents come out when they're asked, are you in favor 1:15:08.200 --> 1:15:11.400 of the state of Florida redistricting to help Donald Trump 1:15:11.479 --> 1:15:16.519 get a majority? They say no every single time. And 1:15:16.600 --> 1:15:18.320 so part of what we're you know, part of what 1:15:18.360 --> 1:15:20.080 we're looking to do in our state is make sure 1:15:20.080 --> 1:15:22.640 that people understand what they're trying to do. And you 1:15:22.640 --> 1:15:23.680 brought up DeSantis. 1:15:23.880 --> 1:15:24.760 A lot of people don't know this. 1:15:25.040 --> 1:15:29.240 DeSantis and Trump hate each other. Donald Trump hates Ronda Santis. 1:15:29.320 --> 1:15:31.280 And what rond De Santans is trying to do is 1:15:31.320 --> 1:15:33.559 he's about to not be the governor of Florida anymore 1:15:33.600 --> 1:15:36.000 next year. He's going to be to have two years 1:15:36.000 --> 1:15:38.519 where he's not an elected official. But he really wants 1:15:38.600 --> 1:15:41.040 to run for president and he knows he can't win 1:15:41.080 --> 1:15:43.960 that Republican primary without Donald Trump's help. So he has 1:15:44.000 --> 1:15:48.000 turned into Donald Trump's lap dog that Donald Trump actually hates, 1:15:48.200 --> 1:15:50.559 and he wants to do everything he can to be 1:15:50.680 --> 1:15:53.160 in the news, to get a news cycle, to lick 1:15:53.200 --> 1:15:55.640 the Buddha Donald Trump, to try to earn some of 1:15:55.640 --> 1:15:59.200 that support so he's not completely irrelevant. And that's why 1:15:59.200 --> 1:16:03.080 we've seen all these things from redistricting, even the Everglades 1:16:03.280 --> 1:16:07.719 detention facility, the internment camp, Alligator Alcatraz, all this stuff 1:16:08.120 --> 1:16:10.799 he's doing because the dude wants to run for president. 1:16:11.040 --> 1:16:12.280 He has no juice. 1:16:12.720 --> 1:16:14.400 Nobody likes him, even. 1:16:14.160 --> 1:16:15.120 In his own party. 1:16:15.200 --> 1:16:16.320 He does not have the sauce. 1:16:16.760 --> 1:16:19.240 And you heard his voice, have you seen his boots. 1:16:21.760 --> 1:16:24.360 So this is what's going on in the state of Florida. 1:16:24.400 --> 1:16:26.920 I want to make sure people know. Jasmin brought it up. 1:16:27.400 --> 1:16:29.880 I always tell this people Project twenty twenty five. All 1:16:29.920 --> 1:16:33.759 this stuff everyone's seeing now, that's Florida twenty twenty Okay. 1:16:34.080 --> 1:16:36.439 This stuff that they're trying across this country, they've been 1:16:36.479 --> 1:16:39.280 doing in the South for a long time. They passed 1:16:39.320 --> 1:16:42.960 the Big Beautiful Bill for billionaires, the largest chansfer of 1:16:43.040 --> 1:16:45.960 weal from the working class to billionaires, the rich getting rich, 1:16:45.960 --> 1:16:48.920 of the poor getting poorer, working class getting poor as well. 1:16:49.400 --> 1:16:52.160 They know they can't win the election because people are 1:16:52.200 --> 1:16:54.880 pissed off about it. In fact, Donald Trump sent his 1:16:54.920 --> 1:16:59.120 top people to Capitol Hill to tell the Republican Party, Hey, 1:16:59.160 --> 1:17:01.200 you got to stop call it the Big Beautiful Bill 1:17:01.240 --> 1:17:04.880 Act because it's so unpopular. We got to rebrand it. Bro, 1:17:05.000 --> 1:17:07.920 you named it the Big Beautiful Bill Act. You have 1:17:08.040 --> 1:17:10.920 the word beautiful in there. The facts of the matter 1:17:11.000 --> 1:17:13.360 are so bad that people don't like it, even your 1:17:13.400 --> 1:17:15.200 own party. And now they're trying to figure out how 1:17:15.200 --> 1:17:17.519 to change it. It's so unpopular. They know they're going 1:17:17.600 --> 1:17:20.240 to lose, and so they want to cheat. They want 1:17:20.240 --> 1:17:22.120 to cheat because they don't want to lose, and that's 1:17:22.120 --> 1:17:23.120 what's going on right now. 1:17:23.200 --> 1:17:26.120 Yeah, they're terrified, and they're also terrified because they know 1:17:26.200 --> 1:17:28.080 that what we do have a bit of hope, and 1:17:28.080 --> 1:17:30.760 of course the momentum is mounting. I want to talk 1:17:30.800 --> 1:17:33.639 about not just what we'll do when we do, in fact, 1:17:33.800 --> 1:17:37.360 when the house back, but the successes that you've already had. 1:17:37.400 --> 1:17:40.000 You brought up with Steven Miller and all the rest 1:17:40.000 --> 1:17:43.280 of those goons like to call alligator Alcatraz. Of course 1:17:43.400 --> 1:17:45.439 you made a big move that I want you to 1:17:45.479 --> 1:17:47.400 talk about, and maybe we keep it open or reopen 1:17:47.400 --> 1:17:48.880 it for Steven Miller. I don't know in a couple 1:17:48.920 --> 1:17:50.479 of years, But can you talk about how we're still 1:17:50.479 --> 1:17:52.840 winning right now and what that means for when we 1:17:52.880 --> 1:17:54.479 actually do have the house back. 1:17:55.240 --> 1:17:57.519 Well, something that I always sold organizers when I was 1:17:57.520 --> 1:17:59.200 on the front lines of Black Lives Matter, and then 1:17:59.240 --> 1:18:01.040 I think about a lot now as a member of 1:18:01.080 --> 1:18:04.559 Congress that doesn't have all the seats we want, is 1:18:04.560 --> 1:18:06.040 when you don't have all the power you want, you 1:18:06.120 --> 1:18:07.200 use all the power you got. 1:18:07.640 --> 1:18:08.479 And one of the most. 1:18:08.360 --> 1:18:10.720 Important things we can do right now as elected officials 1:18:11.240 --> 1:18:15.040 is use our powers of oversight, especially as it relates 1:18:15.280 --> 1:18:18.800 to this what I would say is a campaign of 1:18:18.880 --> 1:18:22.679 terrorism on our communities, of going in and kidnapping people 1:18:22.920 --> 1:18:26.320 and human trafficking them to other countries and other states. 1:18:26.520 --> 1:18:29.360 And when this facility was open, not just myself, but 1:18:29.439 --> 1:18:32.439 many of the representatives across the state of Florida pulled 1:18:32.560 --> 1:18:34.760 up and said, we want to go in to see 1:18:34.760 --> 1:18:36.479 what's going on. And we didn't just do that. We 1:18:36.600 --> 1:18:39.920 coordinated with a lot of the people engage in lawsuits, 1:18:40.160 --> 1:18:42.439 and we were able to find out what information do 1:18:42.520 --> 1:18:45.200 you need from the inside, what can we get? We 1:18:45.240 --> 1:18:46.600 went in there and we got it. I want a 1:18:46.680 --> 1:18:49.400 second time and spoke with people who were being detained 1:18:49.439 --> 1:18:53.160 there and got even more information. Many of us did declarations, 1:18:53.360 --> 1:18:55.759 some of us served as witnesses in the federal case, 1:18:56.080 --> 1:18:58.280 and many of you saw that we got that place 1:18:58.479 --> 1:19:01.160 shut down. A judge came out a few about a 1:19:01.160 --> 1:19:03.320 week ago and reverse that it's going to be back 1:19:03.360 --> 1:19:05.320 and forth in court. But as of right now, that 1:19:05.439 --> 1:19:08.439 facility is not operating because of the work of the 1:19:08.520 --> 1:19:11.360 organizations that buy the lawsuit, but because elected officials said, 1:19:11.360 --> 1:19:13.759 you know what, we have privilege where you have positions 1:19:13.760 --> 1:19:16.600 of power. How can we use that the support organizers, 1:19:16.640 --> 1:19:18.840 How can we use it to support this lawsuit to 1:19:18.840 --> 1:19:21.400 shut the place down? The Santus is opening up another 1:19:21.439 --> 1:19:23.680 one in Northford, and guess what, I'll be pulling up 1:19:23.720 --> 1:19:25.880 to that one as well. We got to do everything 1:19:25.960 --> 1:19:28.880 we can in this moment with what we got, and 1:19:29.200 --> 1:19:32.320 I'm really proud of that what we did with Alligator Alcatraz, 1:19:32.360 --> 1:19:34.840 because I think it shows what happens when elected officials 1:19:35.240 --> 1:19:38.120 work with organizers, work with the people on the ground. 1:19:38.600 --> 1:19:40.240 We're not going to win one hundred percent of the time, 1:19:41.000 --> 1:19:43.840 but sometimes we will win, and it it feels good 1:19:43.840 --> 1:19:46.000 to win, and like it's going to feel good on 1:19:46.080 --> 1:19:49.120 election day at the end of this year when California 1:19:49.360 --> 1:19:49.800 passes this. 1:19:50.200 --> 1:19:51.120 Absolutely it is. 1:19:51.160 --> 1:19:53.200 And if you want to make sure that that happens, 1:19:53.240 --> 1:19:56.639 go to yes on fifty the number fifty live dot com. Yes, 1:19:56.680 --> 1:19:59.200 I'm fifty live and I want this segment actual you 1:19:59.240 --> 1:20:01.800 and I to have the most I don't know if 1:20:01.800 --> 1:20:03.920 that's Brian's gonna tell me those numbers later, but I'm 1:20:03.920 --> 1:20:06.320 gonna make the point of saying, this is the person 1:20:06.600 --> 1:20:09.360 that you can really upset, that is our vice president. 1:20:09.600 --> 1:20:10.679 If you go and donate. 1:20:10.720 --> 1:20:12.559 I'm gonna show it to you again. Jump scared again. 1:20:13.160 --> 1:20:15.760 This is the look at that take take a look 1:20:15.800 --> 1:20:16.400 at that face. 1:20:16.520 --> 1:20:19.439 Yeah, face to donate the more you don't. 1:20:19.320 --> 1:20:21.840 Like him exactly, I need, I need Joe, and we'll 1:20:21.840 --> 1:20:22.679 do it one more time. 1:20:22.760 --> 1:20:25.440 This guy right here, all right there, Oh my god. 1:20:25.600 --> 1:20:29.920 Please guess on fifty live dot com turn out and 1:20:29.920 --> 1:20:30.479 fight people. 1:20:33.120 --> 1:20:34.280 Awesome, thank you both. 1:20:34.520 --> 1:20:36.679 I should note that that works because we just passed 1:20:36.680 --> 1:20:38.000 four hundred thousand dollars. 1:20:38.040 --> 1:20:39.720 So thank you for a good thing. 1:20:39.800 --> 1:20:42.040 Steven Miller ever did is help us to raise money. 1:20:42.160 --> 1:20:44.040 Thank you for showing his ugly ass face. 1:20:44.080 --> 1:20:44.920 We appreciate it. 1:20:44.960 --> 1:20:47.439 And thank you to everybody who's donated. For those who 1:20:47.479 --> 1:20:49.800 haven't yet donated, this is the whole ball game here. 1:20:49.960 --> 1:20:52.240 We've been begging for Democrats to fight. This is what 1:20:52.280 --> 1:20:54.800 it looks like for Democrats to fight. They've done their part. 1:20:54.880 --> 1:20:57.479 We've got this thing on the ballot on November fourth. 1:20:57.720 --> 1:20:59.120 Now it's just a matter of making sure that we 1:20:59.160 --> 1:21:02.719 can raise enough money grassroots so that people all across 1:21:02.760 --> 1:21:05.280 this state know what's on the ballot, know what the 1:21:05.280 --> 1:21:07.599 stakes are in this upcoming election. So if you haven't 1:21:07.680 --> 1:21:10.639 yet donated, and you have a few bucks, donate here 1:21:10.720 --> 1:21:13.200 instead of going and getting a coffee somewhere, five, ten, 1:21:13.320 --> 1:21:16.400 fifteen bucks. It makes a huge difference, and you can 1:21:16.439 --> 1:21:18.960 add the add your own name to the throngs of 1:21:18.960 --> 1:21:21.960 people who've already donated. We are fast approaching a half 1:21:22.000 --> 1:21:23.559 a million dollars in just a couple. 1:21:23.400 --> 1:21:24.120 Of hours tonight. 1:21:24.320 --> 1:21:25.760 And if you completely. 1:21:25.320 --> 1:21:28.519 Hate that guy, if you really hate Stephen Miller and 1:21:30.000 --> 1:21:32.240 jd Vance, then your way to show that right now 1:21:32.280 --> 1:21:34.439 is to go to yes on fifty live dot com. 1:21:34.840 --> 1:21:37.519 All right, Jack and Congressman Frost, thank you so much 1:21:37.520 --> 1:21:38.160 for being here tonight. 1:21:38.200 --> 1:21:38.960 We appreciate it. 1:21:39.400 --> 1:21:43.240 Very excited to ask our next guest to come in. 1:21:43.400 --> 1:21:45.920 We've got Aby Burns Tucker, who is a graduate of 1:21:45.960 --> 1:21:49.400 Southwestern Law School, works as a social influencer. A social 1:21:49.400 --> 1:21:52.599 media influencer under the name I Am legally Hype. If 1:21:52.600 --> 1:21:55.160 you are not yet following her, you want to follow her, 1:21:55.280 --> 1:21:58.120 trust me. She's gained over half a million followers across 1:21:58.160 --> 1:22:00.080 every platform by breaking down comp. 1:22:00.160 --> 1:22:02.080 Cad political and legal issues. 1:22:02.080 --> 1:22:05.160 She's also a political correspondent with The Shade Room. So again, 1:22:05.400 --> 1:22:07.479 if you're not yet following, do yourself a favor and follow, 1:22:07.520 --> 1:22:09.400 and thank you for the work you're doing breaking this 1:22:09.400 --> 1:22:09.960 stuff down. 1:22:10.000 --> 1:22:10.559 I know it is. 1:22:11.320 --> 1:22:14.479 I know it is a herculean feet task that you've 1:22:14.520 --> 1:22:18.560 taken on. And she's joined by two amazing fighters for democracy. 1:22:18.680 --> 1:22:23.080 We have Representative com Lagger Dove and also Representative Aguilar. 1:22:23.560 --> 1:22:27.320 Very excited to introduce you both from California's thirty seventh 1:22:27.320 --> 1:22:29.320 and thirty third. Thank you so much for being here, 1:22:29.320 --> 1:22:32.120 for supporting independent media. Looking forward to the conversation. 1:22:33.920 --> 1:22:37.280 Yay, I'm so excited. I'm excited to be joined by 1:22:37.320 --> 1:22:37.960 you both. 1:22:38.160 --> 1:22:41.760 Okay, Representative call Blogger Dove and Representative Aguilar. We've got 1:22:41.800 --> 1:22:45.600 California and the House, okay, baby, because y'all already know 1:22:45.960 --> 1:22:48.760 when Republicans go low, baby, in California, we get ready 1:22:48.760 --> 1:22:51.920 to squabble up. Okay, And we got two representatives here 1:22:51.960 --> 1:22:54.360 that are ready to fight for you and fight we 1:22:54.479 --> 1:22:57.120 gonna do because I mean, and I'll say my homegirl 1:22:57.160 --> 1:23:01.000 Liz earlier, I'll not y'all seeing her, but it's upsetting 1:23:01.120 --> 1:23:03.880 me and my homegirl, Okay, because if you can't go 1:23:03.960 --> 1:23:07.040 to California to fight Jerry Mandarin, where can you go? 1:23:07.960 --> 1:23:11.080 Where can you go? So let's get into it. I'm excited. 1:23:11.400 --> 1:23:14.760 So my first question is this call Mucker Dove. I'll 1:23:14.800 --> 1:23:15.120 let you go. 1:23:15.160 --> 1:23:17.360 First, Republicans are out here and they're just trying to 1:23:17.400 --> 1:23:21.200 take power. Hey, they redrawn congessional maps mid decade so 1:23:21.200 --> 1:23:22.120 they can stand control. 1:23:22.520 --> 1:23:24.840 So first tell us why the hell are they doing this? 1:23:25.600 --> 1:23:29.760 Then talk about what exactly is Prop fifty, and then 1:23:29.800 --> 1:23:32.600 we're going to go into why Prop fifty is the 1:23:32.600 --> 1:23:34.200 perfect clot back for all this stuff. 1:23:34.000 --> 1:23:34.360 Going on. 1:23:35.960 --> 1:23:39.000 Back in the House. So you know, why are they 1:23:39.000 --> 1:23:41.040 doing this. They're doing this because they know they're going 1:23:41.080 --> 1:23:44.599 to lose in November. Right. First, they did this four 1:23:44.640 --> 1:23:48.439 point five trillion dollar tax cut for billionaires. They thought, ooh, okay, 1:23:48.439 --> 1:23:50.479 people were going to be asleep at the wheel and 1:23:50.520 --> 1:23:53.519 be okay with that. Then we saw eggs started costing 1:23:53.560 --> 1:23:56.160 fifteen dollars a dozen and they were hard to find 1:23:56.240 --> 1:23:58.360 in the grocery stores and gas who were going up 1:23:58.400 --> 1:24:00.920 to and then they said, well, we're going to have 1:24:00.920 --> 1:24:04.439 to pay for all these tax cuts by cutting your 1:24:04.560 --> 1:24:07.120 health care. So we had seven hundred and seventy billion 1:24:07.160 --> 1:24:10.519 dollar cut to Medicare. We've seen cuts in medicaid in 1:24:10.560 --> 1:24:14.240 the state of California, you know, shutting down and firing 1:24:15.280 --> 1:24:20.080 federal departments, firing federal workers, shutting down USAID, which is 1:24:20.120 --> 1:24:22.360 as much about foreign eight as it is about making 1:24:22.400 --> 1:24:25.439 sure that our farmers, hello, California is a farming state, 1:24:25.880 --> 1:24:28.400 are being able to get these contracts. So all of 1:24:28.400 --> 1:24:31.120 it's going to hell in a handbasket. And the American 1:24:31.120 --> 1:24:34.240 people started waking up, and they were like, oh, homie's 1:24:34.280 --> 1:24:37.680 not playing any of this because this man ran for 1:24:37.840 --> 1:24:41.840 office to make the cost of living go down, not 1:24:41.960 --> 1:24:44.719 to have its skyrocket and then have all the money 1:24:44.760 --> 1:24:48.680 go into his pockets because he's so you know, confused 1:24:48.760 --> 1:24:50.519 that all he wants to do is put more golden 1:24:50.560 --> 1:24:54.519 condolapras in the White House and then lind these arbitrary 1:24:54.560 --> 1:24:57.160 tariffs around the world so that we as consumers have 1:24:57.240 --> 1:25:00.800 to pay more. So he said, hey, who's coming up. 1:25:01.000 --> 1:25:03.800 Folks are waking up to the game. They might vote 1:25:03.800 --> 1:25:07.120 some of these Republicans out of office because these Republicans 1:25:07.160 --> 1:25:08.839 are not listening to the people. 1:25:09.280 --> 1:25:10.559 So let me follow my. 1:25:10.600 --> 1:25:14.000 Governors in these red states and see which one will 1:25:14.040 --> 1:25:16.600 do what I ask And what I'm asking for is 1:25:16.680 --> 1:25:17.400 more seats. 1:25:17.439 --> 1:25:20.680 I need more red seats. Gerrymander. 1:25:21.360 --> 1:25:24.840 They still they're regging it. And so who entered the call, 1:25:25.240 --> 1:25:27.960 Gregory Abbott, and he went into a back room, wheeled 1:25:28.000 --> 1:25:33.160 on in there and without even consulting other Republican legislators. Okay, 1:25:33.439 --> 1:25:37.200 that's how nasty they are. He we read you some maps. 1:25:37.720 --> 1:25:41.040 And in doing that, what he did was he's silencing 1:25:41.920 --> 1:25:46.120 voters in Texas and he's erasing the possibility for people 1:25:46.120 --> 1:25:48.720 of color, black folks, brown folks to be able to 1:25:48.840 --> 1:25:51.840 run for those seats. He is cutting off the pipeline 1:25:52.040 --> 1:25:55.200 at the local level because he's getting rid of seats 1:25:55.320 --> 1:25:58.240 at the federal level where folks would run. So, you know, 1:25:58.320 --> 1:26:01.240 the Bear was hibernating. Were trying to handle our own business. 1:26:01.280 --> 1:26:04.400 Get these ice agents all up out of Los Angeles, 1:26:04.479 --> 1:26:06.240 right and make sure that folks can go to their job, 1:26:06.360 --> 1:26:08.920 go to their churches, go to their hearings without being 1:26:08.960 --> 1:26:12.360 snatched and kidnapped and detained and deported. But the Bear 1:26:12.439 --> 1:26:14.920 woke up and said, I don't think so, And we 1:26:14.960 --> 1:26:19.360 came up with Prop fifty. And you know, our Democratic Caucus, Cheryl, well, 1:26:19.439 --> 1:26:22.200 I think share about you know what Prop fifty is, 1:26:22.280 --> 1:26:23.800 But what we know is transparent. 1:26:23.960 --> 1:26:26.920 We know it's temporary. We know it's fare and we 1:26:27.040 --> 1:26:28.320 know that it obeys the law. 1:26:28.800 --> 1:26:29.720 Did I set you up? 1:26:29.960 --> 1:26:30.839 Meet Petere Aguilar? 1:26:31.360 --> 1:26:31.760 You did? 1:26:31.840 --> 1:26:32.719 You did? Asked KD. 1:26:33.080 --> 1:26:34.920 I thank you so much. Good to be with you, 1:26:35.000 --> 1:26:39.240 ab And just like Sidney said, look, this is California 1:26:39.400 --> 1:26:43.120 punching back, doing everything we can, and we know we 1:26:43.280 --> 1:26:47.639 have the winning recipe because this is transparent. As Sydney said, 1:26:47.680 --> 1:26:51.439 Texas and Greg Abbott just change the system and try 1:26:51.439 --> 1:26:54.479 to steal five seats. We go to the voters and 1:26:54.520 --> 1:26:58.840 we created a map collaboratively working together to punch back. 1:26:59.200 --> 1:27:03.000 But we may it temporary. The independent commission that we 1:27:03.240 --> 1:27:07.400 like comes back in twenty thirty one. We respect the 1:27:07.439 --> 1:27:11.280 Voting Rights Act, we respect black and brown districts, and 1:27:11.360 --> 1:27:14.120 we make sure that we are meeting this moment and 1:27:14.200 --> 1:27:19.160 punching back appropriately. And so that's why we're transparent, we're fair, 1:27:20.240 --> 1:27:22.320 you know. Because of that, we're. 1:27:22.120 --> 1:27:24.160 Going to have success with proposition. 1:27:24.200 --> 1:27:28.120 Fifty yes on fifty live dot com is where people 1:27:28.160 --> 1:27:30.759 can go to help out. Five zero yes on fifty 1:27:31.160 --> 1:27:34.800 live dot com. Thank you guys so much for elevating 1:27:34.880 --> 1:27:38.880 this platform and forgiving us this space to talk about 1:27:38.880 --> 1:27:42.120 this because this is so incredibly important. We cannot let 1:27:42.520 --> 1:27:47.280 Republicans steal an election. I absolutely believe, and Sydney and 1:27:47.360 --> 1:27:50.320 I both subscribe to what Latifa said. This is about 1:27:50.400 --> 1:27:53.080 free and fair elections in twenty twenty six and in 1:27:53.120 --> 1:27:56.640 twenty twenty eight, and we won't have those if Republicans 1:27:56.640 --> 1:27:59.960 can consolidate power around these terrible policies and rig them 1:28:00.160 --> 1:28:02.639 system as they go each and every month. 1:28:03.720 --> 1:28:07.280 It's also about jobs, It's about health care. It's about 1:28:07.320 --> 1:28:09.800 having a future for your family. It's about being able 1:28:09.840 --> 1:28:11.799 to go to school and get an education. 1:28:12.360 --> 1:28:12.599 You know. 1:28:12.720 --> 1:28:16.040 It's about not being afraid that all of the colleges 1:28:16.080 --> 1:28:18.760 and universities in your town are going to dry up. 1:28:19.000 --> 1:28:21.599 It's about knowing that you can walk outside your home 1:28:21.920 --> 1:28:25.559 and not be detained and deported, not be lynched because 1:28:25.560 --> 1:28:27.720 of the color of your skin. You know, these are 1:28:27.760 --> 1:28:30.360 folks that want a national abortion band. They are doing 1:28:30.439 --> 1:28:33.240 every single thing that they can to take us back 1:28:33.280 --> 1:28:38.040 to pre Jim Crow and I am not being hyperbolic. 1:28:38.439 --> 1:28:41.400 So it is about democracy, but it is also about 1:28:41.439 --> 1:28:45.360 the money in your pocket and your ability to earn 1:28:45.560 --> 1:28:48.840 and learn and have a family. And if folks don't 1:28:48.880 --> 1:28:51.640 want you engaged if they don't want you to be 1:28:51.680 --> 1:28:54.200 able to vote, if they don't want you to have 1:28:54.360 --> 1:28:57.559 love for your country, then they have won and we 1:28:57.800 --> 1:29:01.960 cannot let that happen no way, not now, not. 1:29:02.040 --> 1:29:04.040 Ever, okay. 1:29:04.080 --> 1:29:04.519 Period. 1:29:04.560 --> 1:29:06.960 And with that the insaid, right, not only do we 1:29:07.000 --> 1:29:09.000 need y'all money, but we need y'all to pull up 1:29:09.040 --> 1:29:13.000 and actually vote. Right, So, turnout and special elections are 1:29:13.120 --> 1:29:18.120 usually pretty low, right, especially in black and minority communities. 1:29:18.400 --> 1:29:20.960 Rep Agular, I think your district is what something like 1:29:21.000 --> 1:29:24.439 sixty percent Hispanic and maybe about ten percent black? Rap 1:29:24.479 --> 1:29:27.160 pumlager Dove, I think there's something about fifty four percent 1:29:27.520 --> 1:29:31.200 black or Hispanic, about twenty percent black some right there? 1:29:31.800 --> 1:29:35.720 Why the seas right, Why do you think it's so 1:29:35.840 --> 1:29:38.160 hard for us to get these people out like or 1:29:38.240 --> 1:29:41.719 get these people out to vote? Are we not communicating properly? 1:29:42.200 --> 1:29:45.040 Is it a failure on political leadership? Are we not 1:29:45.120 --> 1:29:46.320 meeting voters where they are? 1:29:46.400 --> 1:29:46.519 Like? 1:29:46.560 --> 1:29:48.040 What do we need to do to make sure not 1:29:48.160 --> 1:29:49.720 only we get the money to make sure we get 1:29:49.760 --> 1:29:52.000 the message out, but we get these people registered to vote. 1:29:52.040 --> 1:29:55.599 Today is National Registration Day, Registered to vote and out 1:29:55.680 --> 1:29:59.439 voting so that we can redistrict and Yes on Prop 1:29:59.479 --> 1:30:01.400 fifty Regular, I start with you. 1:30:02.040 --> 1:30:06.519 Ye, National voting Registration Day. This is so incredibly important. 1:30:07.080 --> 1:30:09.080 I think the answer to your question is we have 1:30:09.120 --> 1:30:12.240 to inspire people. And just like Sidney said, we have 1:30:12.400 --> 1:30:16.280 to make this about the American public and what they benefit. 1:30:16.720 --> 1:30:20.719 When we are able to govern and when Leader Jeffrees 1:30:20.720 --> 1:30:24.360 becomes Speaker Jeffrees, We're going to be able to lower 1:30:24.400 --> 1:30:26.240 the costs of health care for people. We're going to 1:30:26.280 --> 1:30:28.599 be able to put more money in people's pockets. We're 1:30:28.600 --> 1:30:30.280 going to be able to clean up the culture of 1:30:30.360 --> 1:30:34.439 corruption that allows the President to trade in mean coins 1:30:34.439 --> 1:30:37.439 on the Supreme Court, to run around and without a 1:30:37.479 --> 1:30:40.599 code of ethics or any principles at all. I mean, 1:30:40.640 --> 1:30:42.240 those are the things that we're going to be able 1:30:42.280 --> 1:30:45.479 to do when when we have the ability to push 1:30:45.520 --> 1:30:48.559 back legislatively. But to Sidney's point, we have to make 1:30:48.560 --> 1:30:51.320 this and center this around the American public and they 1:30:51.320 --> 1:30:54.439 are getting crushed by costs, They're getting crushed in this 1:30:54.520 --> 1:30:57.720 Trump economy, and we have to connect the dots and 1:30:57.800 --> 1:31:02.080 tell them why Yes on fifty to help them. And 1:31:02.160 --> 1:31:04.679 so that's the important piece, But we have to do more. 1:31:04.720 --> 1:31:06.799 We got to knock on doors. We got to reach people. 1:31:07.160 --> 1:31:08.600 We got to tell them this is just going to 1:31:08.600 --> 1:31:10.679 be a small ballot. We just need them to put 1:31:10.720 --> 1:31:13.640 in yes and send it back in. And because in 1:31:13.680 --> 1:31:17.840 California we have an ability for mail in voting that 1:31:17.880 --> 1:31:21.719 doesn't exist around the country, and we have a strong 1:31:21.720 --> 1:31:25.280 ability to allow people to exercise their right to vote, 1:31:25.680 --> 1:31:27.880 we need to make sure that they use it, that 1:31:27.920 --> 1:31:30.439 they use their voice, and that they do it. Around 1:31:30.439 --> 1:31:33.400 the country, people are waiting in lines for hours. We're 1:31:33.400 --> 1:31:36.280 making this easy for people. If you're working two jobs, 1:31:36.360 --> 1:31:39.240 if you're picking up your kids from school late, you 1:31:39.280 --> 1:31:40.920 don't have to make that choice so that I'm going 1:31:40.960 --> 1:31:43.360 to pick up my kids late or go to vote. 1:31:43.479 --> 1:31:45.160 You can do it in the comfort of your own home. 1:31:45.160 --> 1:31:47.680 And you can You're going to have a ballot at 1:31:47.720 --> 1:31:51.599 your home in just a couple of weeks, all right. 1:31:51.520 --> 1:31:53.320 So y'all go onto the projects with me, right to 1:31:53.320 --> 1:31:57.160 get num clubs registered to votes. Yes, clean, Okay, that's 1:31:57.200 --> 1:32:02.640 what I'm talking about. Now, he's the other thing. So 1:32:03.840 --> 1:32:05.639 the message is going out from the other side, right. 1:32:05.640 --> 1:32:07.519 I didn't seen the commercials. I was at my granny 1:32:07.520 --> 1:32:11.400 house this past weekend. Actually, my granny and YO district. Aguilar, 1:32:11.600 --> 1:32:13.360 my granny out there in your district. I was at 1:32:13.360 --> 1:32:13.800 her house. 1:32:14.720 --> 1:32:15.920 All got cable at home. 1:32:16.040 --> 1:32:18.759 Okay, my granny and them got cable, so they seeing 1:32:18.800 --> 1:32:21.799 the messages right. And some Republicans are out here claiming 1:32:21.840 --> 1:32:25.240 that Prop Fitty actually hurts democracy and strips the power 1:32:25.320 --> 1:32:26.040 from voters. 1:32:28.240 --> 1:32:31.120 Tell us why they lion call moradough. 1:32:32.280 --> 1:32:33.840 Well, I hate to say it, but right now they 1:32:33.960 --> 1:32:36.280 lyon just because they're Republicans and they're scared to tell 1:32:36.280 --> 1:32:39.960 the truths under Donald Trump. It just is what it is. 1:32:40.280 --> 1:32:43.200 And so we have to bring courage back up in 1:32:43.240 --> 1:32:45.960 here into this fight. And Democrats have the courage because, 1:32:46.000 --> 1:32:47.880 like I said, we weren't trying to do this, but 1:32:47.960 --> 1:32:49.320 we have to do this. We have to do it 1:32:49.360 --> 1:32:49.960 for Texas. 1:32:49.960 --> 1:32:51.519 We have to do it for Missouri, we have to 1:32:51.560 --> 1:32:52.320 do it for Indiana. 1:32:52.360 --> 1:32:53.760 We have to do it for Florida. We have to 1:32:53.760 --> 1:32:56.480 do it for Ohio. We have to do it for California. 1:32:56.960 --> 1:33:00.800 You know they have more money. We're doing this like 1:33:00.960 --> 1:33:04.880 World aid is World Aid for democracy because we need 1:33:04.920 --> 1:33:09.040 to raise this money to get the information out a 1:33:09.160 --> 1:33:12.840 single issue ballot in November when you're already tired from 1:33:12.880 --> 1:33:16.559 twenty twenty four. That is a heavy lift. Okay, we 1:33:16.680 --> 1:33:18.920 still got the ninety two percent out there. Folks are 1:33:18.960 --> 1:33:21.479 like all these maniacs up in Congress. 1:33:21.479 --> 1:33:22.280 It's a circus. 1:33:22.320 --> 1:33:25.880 I'm a check out, but we have to check back in. 1:33:27.000 --> 1:33:30.120 Like we said, this is temporary. We're trying to go 1:33:30.200 --> 1:33:34.080 back to having an independent commission. Hell, we want one 1:33:34.160 --> 1:33:38.280 for the entire country because ain't nobody got time for 1:33:38.520 --> 1:33:41.720 none of this. But we have to step up and 1:33:41.920 --> 1:33:45.439 show up come this November to let folks know that 1:33:45.479 --> 1:33:48.000 we are not going to stand by and let folks 1:33:48.040 --> 1:33:50.360 that we don't know, to let folks who we know 1:33:50.439 --> 1:33:55.280 don't even love this country, okay, walk all over our rights, 1:33:55.320 --> 1:33:58.439 the Constitution, and our ability to make and earn a 1:33:58.479 --> 1:34:01.920 living for ourselves and for our family members. So we 1:34:02.000 --> 1:34:04.080 have to tell them this is temporary. We have to 1:34:04.120 --> 1:34:06.840 tell them that this abides by the Voting Rights Act. 1:34:06.840 --> 1:34:09.519 We have to tell them that representation is still important. 1:34:09.640 --> 1:34:11.760 We have to tell them that this is fair. We 1:34:11.880 --> 1:34:14.240 have to remind them that these maps are gonna be 1:34:14.280 --> 1:34:14.960 on the ballot. 1:34:15.040 --> 1:34:15.200 Yo. 1:34:15.280 --> 1:34:17.800 So if you want receipts, the receipts are gonna be 1:34:18.000 --> 1:34:21.519 on the ballot. We are not trying to hide. We 1:34:21.560 --> 1:34:25.240 are trying to save and we need everyone to check in. 1:34:25.400 --> 1:34:27.599 It is like when you watch a game and your 1:34:27.640 --> 1:34:29.920 folks are playing and they're on the field, and you know, 1:34:29.960 --> 1:34:32.200 it gets kind of quiet because your folks are way 1:34:32.240 --> 1:34:34.439 way behind and you want to check out, but your 1:34:34.520 --> 1:34:38.080 team cannot have you checkouts. You gotta still be raw, Ryan, 1:34:38.120 --> 1:34:40.600 You gotta buy those concessions. You gotta be rooting for 1:34:40.680 --> 1:34:43.200 your team because they are still on the field, and 1:34:43.320 --> 1:34:46.760 Democrats are still on the field, and we all have 1:34:46.920 --> 1:34:50.000 a role to play in this fight. And right now, 1:34:50.040 --> 1:34:52.080 the role that we have to play is to stay 1:34:52.120 --> 1:34:54.320 engaged and to talk to our friends and our family 1:34:54.320 --> 1:34:56.559 members and let them know what's at stake, and then 1:34:56.600 --> 1:35:00.960 make sure that everybody's asses show up either to vote 1:35:00.960 --> 1:35:03.639 at the polls or get that ballot, fill it out 1:35:03.680 --> 1:35:07.000 and send it in. We need everyone to participate because 1:35:07.160 --> 1:35:11.679 everyone's rights are at risk, everyone's coins are at risk. 1:35:11.800 --> 1:35:14.280 Everyone's future is at risk. 1:35:14.320 --> 1:35:17.280 I'm trying to be as hype as Latifa Simon yo, 1:35:17.439 --> 1:35:20.479 because I think that so Falcon Rock like the Bay, 1:35:21.040 --> 1:35:25.160 But all of these issues are at stake and will 1:35:25.200 --> 1:35:27.080 be on the ballot come November. 1:35:27.439 --> 1:35:34.240 I'm gonna do it. Don't fight. We get in these streets. Okay, 1:35:34.479 --> 1:35:37.120 we get in these streets. We're gonna get these people red. Okay, 1:35:38.400 --> 1:35:41.320 y'all better donate you. I I don't put this bas 1:35:41.520 --> 1:35:42.320 Lean on my face. 1:35:44.000 --> 1:35:45.000 Look, I'm gonna. 1:35:44.760 --> 1:35:46.519 Put my hair off, yo, I'm gonna take off my 1:35:46.600 --> 1:35:52.160 ear rings, Perie, like, what's happening. 1:35:52.200 --> 1:35:52.960 What's happening. 1:35:53.439 --> 1:35:55.280 I don't know what's going on here, but I love 1:35:55.320 --> 1:35:57.200 it all Catornia. 1:35:57.240 --> 1:35:57.519 Okay. 1:35:57.600 --> 1:36:00.400 We're from the land right and look and up from 1:36:00.400 --> 1:36:01.360 Compton originally. 1:36:01.520 --> 1:36:04.280 And now my granny living Yo district on Hu City 1:36:04.600 --> 1:36:07.280 and I e being here. We've been to get any 1:36:07.280 --> 1:36:08.479 in a B. 1:36:08.640 --> 1:36:10.120 Tell Granny i'mnna pick up her ballot. 1:36:10.160 --> 1:36:12.719 Let's okay, I'm gonna tell she's gonna be so happy. 1:36:14.000 --> 1:36:15.439 To do door to door service. 1:36:15.520 --> 1:36:16.360 Okay, you better. 1:36:16.200 --> 1:36:17.760 Come pick it up, am I Granny gonna come lit 1:36:17.800 --> 1:36:19.320 it for you. 1:36:21.040 --> 1:36:23.880 That that was I have no notes that could That 1:36:23.920 --> 1:36:27.519 could not have been more entertaining. Thank you all so much, 1:36:27.640 --> 1:36:31.280 a b thank you for for the the most entertaining 1:36:31.320 --> 1:36:34.799 panel of the night. Appreciate you guys, Representative cum Lagger, 1:36:34.840 --> 1:36:36.920 Dove and Aguilar. Thank you so much for taking the 1:36:36.960 --> 1:36:40.320 time this evening, we have our last guest here, our 1:36:40.400 --> 1:36:43.360 last two guests here. I'm very very excited, uh to 1:36:43.479 --> 1:36:46.679 introduce Lee mc gowan. You might know her as politics Girl. 1:36:47.160 --> 1:36:49.920 Could not be more excited if Look, I think that 1:36:49.960 --> 1:36:51.800 we have to call out the people who are doing 1:36:51.840 --> 1:36:54.920 this for all the right reasons, and Lee exemplifies that 1:36:55.040 --> 1:36:57.960 better than anybody else. This is somebody who truly, truly, 1:36:58.000 --> 1:36:59.519 truly believes in her mission. 1:37:00.280 --> 1:37:02.200 I'm sure you've seen her videos from the kitchen. 1:37:02.720 --> 1:37:07.040 We have a slightly elevated background right now. Lee could 1:37:07.040 --> 1:37:09.280 not be more grateful for your voice. And of course 1:37:09.600 --> 1:37:13.080 Lee is joined by our fearless leader here in California, 1:37:13.360 --> 1:37:16.160 Governor Gavin Newsom. I just want to say, and I 1:37:16.200 --> 1:37:19.439 know I've repeated this a couple of times throughout this call, 1:37:19.479 --> 1:37:21.400 but for folks who are just watching right now, we 1:37:21.520 --> 1:37:24.960 have been begging for Democrats to actually fight back, to 1:37:25.080 --> 1:37:28.080 match their words with action, and that's what we got 1:37:28.200 --> 1:37:32.360 right here. So Gavin Newsom has gotten us halfway here, 1:37:32.439 --> 1:37:34.400 and now the onus is on the rest of us 1:37:34.840 --> 1:37:37.080 to meet him halfway, to donate to this efforts that 1:37:37.080 --> 1:37:38.960 we can make sure that everybody in the state knows 1:37:38.960 --> 1:37:41.639 what the stakes are, so I will stop talking. I'll 1:37:41.680 --> 1:37:43.719 leave it up to you guys now and looking forward 1:37:43.720 --> 1:37:44.320 to the conversation. 1:37:44.880 --> 1:37:46.160 Ah, thanks so much, Brian. 1:37:46.160 --> 1:37:48.080 You are the absolute best and you are in it 1:37:48.120 --> 1:37:50.919 for all the right reasons. To my friend and listen, Governor, 1:37:51.240 --> 1:37:52.559 thank you for doing this today. 1:37:53.040 --> 1:37:54.120 Thank you for bringing the bad. 1:37:54.720 --> 1:37:56.960 You and I need a dog or something. 1:37:57.040 --> 1:37:59.120 I mean, how we You know, I didn't think we 1:37:59.160 --> 1:38:02.719 could top fourteen year old dog and then of course 1:38:02.760 --> 1:38:04.679 ab and Sydney, poor Pete. 1:38:04.760 --> 1:38:06.200 Jesus, that was next level. 1:38:06.400 --> 1:38:08.680 I know you and I both need our vasoline, you know, 1:38:08.840 --> 1:38:11.160 that's what we really need. I'll take out my earrings, 1:38:11.160 --> 1:38:12.960 You'll get your vacline because I'm here for the fight. 1:38:13.000 --> 1:38:15.160 Listen, You're here for the fight. Thank you for doing 1:38:15.200 --> 1:38:15.960 this right. 1:38:16.280 --> 1:38:18.799 I have to tell you, after watching this live today, 1:38:19.240 --> 1:38:20.400 what's this feeling I'm feeling? 1:38:20.439 --> 1:38:22.479 Is it hope? Are you feeling a little hope from 1:38:22.520 --> 1:38:23.559 watching all this today? 1:38:23.960 --> 1:38:24.160 Yeah? 1:38:24.200 --> 1:38:25.439 I mean, come on, how can you not be? 1:38:25.479 --> 1:38:28.320 I mean, I appreciate Brian just saying every single state 1:38:28.840 --> 1:38:30.240 we didn't know that would happen tonight. 1:38:30.560 --> 1:38:31.519 We didn't know anyone to. 1:38:31.479 --> 1:38:35.760 Show up, hundreds and hundreds of thousands of people have 1:38:35.920 --> 1:38:39.439 tuned in, some have been around. This is our third hour, 1:38:39.520 --> 1:38:42.720 which is extraordinary, and the fact that things were just 1:38:42.760 --> 1:38:47.320 tuned up just reinforces your point about optimism and energy. 1:38:47.520 --> 1:38:49.559 It makes people feel like they're being seen and they're 1:38:49.560 --> 1:38:52.559 being heard. It makes people feel like there's momentum and 1:38:52.600 --> 1:38:55.479 there's an opportunity here to do something as opposed to 1:38:55.560 --> 1:38:59.919 talk about doing something, to actually demonstrably have an impact 1:39:00.160 --> 1:39:02.240 before something, not just against something. 1:39:02.600 --> 1:39:04.800 And so this has been next level. I just want 1:39:04.800 --> 1:39:05.280 to thank. 1:39:05.120 --> 1:39:07.960 Everybody, Lee, you for being here at the end of 1:39:08.000 --> 1:39:10.559 this and by the way, on a personal note, thank 1:39:10.640 --> 1:39:12.160 you for getting me through the pandemic. 1:39:12.240 --> 1:39:12.559 Lee. 1:39:13.680 --> 1:39:17.920 I think everybody shaking their head. You literally got us 1:39:17.960 --> 1:39:22.559 through the pandemic, and you gave voice to so many 1:39:22.600 --> 1:39:25.679 of us that were so fearful, so isolated at that time. 1:39:25.760 --> 1:39:29.400 And so I think in the spirit that is your spirit, 1:39:29.479 --> 1:39:32.880 the spirit that defines all of the remarkable hosts we 1:39:32.960 --> 1:39:37.439 met tonight, just gratitude, thanks and yeah, optimism and hope. 1:39:37.760 --> 1:39:38.920 Yeah, wouldn't that be nice. 1:39:38.960 --> 1:39:41.320 I think we've seen the Democrats get attacked across the 1:39:41.320 --> 1:39:44.400 country for the past week and just treated like with 1:39:44.479 --> 1:39:46.280 one big brush that were all the worst people in 1:39:46.320 --> 1:39:47.720 the world, And I keep thinking. 1:39:47.680 --> 1:39:48.679 How is this the case? 1:39:48.760 --> 1:39:50.360 Like we are the party that wants you to have 1:39:50.439 --> 1:39:53.280 health care and better schooling and you know, to take 1:39:53.280 --> 1:39:55.080 care of your children and to get guns out of 1:39:55.240 --> 1:39:57.639 out of our children's faces in their classrooms. And I've 1:39:57.640 --> 1:39:59.920 watched Democrats be attacked this week, and I just this, 1:40:00.000 --> 1:40:03.559 This is such a wonderful evening because California is doing. 1:40:03.960 --> 1:40:06.439 What they're doing now is a direct response to a 1:40:06.479 --> 1:40:09.800 Republican action. And as a California voter myself, I'm going 1:40:09.840 --> 1:40:12.240 to be voting yes on fifty on November fourth, and 1:40:12.280 --> 1:40:14.800 I'm going to be contributing to Yes on fifty live 1:40:14.840 --> 1:40:17.080 dot com after we finish this. But I really hope 1:40:17.080 --> 1:40:20.280 that everybody who is listening tonight and is taking this 1:40:20.320 --> 1:40:22.479 in is as fired up as I am and feels 1:40:22.520 --> 1:40:25.840 like we see you, that you are not this horrible person, 1:40:25.880 --> 1:40:28.040 You are not the party of murder and death and 1:40:28.080 --> 1:40:30.320 destruction that you've been told that you are. That you 1:40:30.360 --> 1:40:32.200 are here for the right reasons, that we can make 1:40:32.240 --> 1:40:35.160 a difference, and we can put people that want to 1:40:35.240 --> 1:40:37.479 use government for the force of good back in office. 1:40:37.520 --> 1:40:37.760 Again. 1:40:38.320 --> 1:40:38.559 Yeah. 1:40:38.640 --> 1:40:41.080 No, I mean, look, you heard from so many people 1:40:41.080 --> 1:40:43.320 here tonight. I mean, these guys want to put America 1:40:43.320 --> 1:40:48.000 in reverse. They want to roll back hard earned, hard 1:40:48.040 --> 1:40:51.639 fought progress and rights, and it's a pre nineteen sixties 1:40:51.680 --> 1:40:54.040 world that they're preaching. I mean, Sydney made an even 1:40:54.080 --> 1:40:57.400 more extreme point, but that's a fact on civil rights, 1:40:57.520 --> 1:41:02.160 LGBTQ rights, on women's rights, on voting rights, and they're 1:41:02.160 --> 1:41:04.160 not screwing around to your point in this last week, 1:41:04.439 --> 1:41:06.759 the rhetoric, I mean, just the rhetoric from the President 1:41:06.760 --> 1:41:09.719 of the United States. He didn't get any memo about 1:41:09.960 --> 1:41:13.080 coming together and working bridge the divide and building a 1:41:13.120 --> 1:41:16.400 bridge and organizing it, you know, just sort of the 1:41:16.439 --> 1:41:20.000 better angels. Quite the contrary. Did you hear Stephen Miller 1:41:20.280 --> 1:41:22.360 on Friday night? Did we hear him over the weekend? 1:41:22.640 --> 1:41:25.760 Is anyone paying attention to what is going on at 1:41:25.760 --> 1:41:28.519 the Department of Justice, to what you know, the cross 1:41:28.520 --> 1:41:31.679 examination today we talked about over the last three hours 1:41:31.720 --> 1:41:36.040 of cash Betel, these guys are not screwing around, and 1:41:36.120 --> 1:41:36.960 we have been. 1:41:37.080 --> 1:41:38.599 And I thought Beto said it right. 1:41:38.680 --> 1:41:41.760 We were so consumed we have been as Democrats being 1:41:41.880 --> 1:41:45.360 right and not focused on being in power and at 1:41:45.360 --> 1:41:47.639 the end of the day, all the progress we've made, 1:41:47.680 --> 1:41:50.280 all the progress the last century, and voting rights still right, 1:41:50.360 --> 1:41:54.439 all those issues were because we were in power. We 1:41:54.520 --> 1:41:58.080 had not just Leader Jeffreyes, we had Speaker Jeffries, Speaker Pelosi. 1:41:58.120 --> 1:42:01.639 And the progress we were made because we organized and 1:42:01.680 --> 1:42:04.679 we've turned out in remarkable numbers, and we turned out, 1:42:04.720 --> 1:42:07.160 as you said, for social justice, racial. 1:42:06.880 --> 1:42:08.520 Justice, economic justice. 1:42:08.960 --> 1:42:11.519 We turned out because we believe we're all better off, 1:42:11.560 --> 1:42:13.519 and we're all better off. We turned out because we 1:42:13.560 --> 1:42:16.360 don't tolerate one another. We want to celebrate one another 1:42:16.400 --> 1:42:19.240 and unite around the things that bind us together and 1:42:19.280 --> 1:42:22.160 the spirit of the best of the founding fathers. So 1:42:22.600 --> 1:42:25.080 that's what that's what Prop fifty is about. And if 1:42:25.120 --> 1:42:28.000 I may, I just think, you know, I don't want 1:42:28.040 --> 1:42:30.519 to talk around it. You hurt a little bit, But 1:42:30.920 --> 1:42:35.400 just to highlight what everybody means tonight, the fact that 1:42:35.439 --> 1:42:37.800 you came together. We've raised over three quarters of a 1:42:37.840 --> 1:42:40.479 million dollars from fifty states. I want folks to know 1:42:40.920 --> 1:42:46.760 every week, one person has donated ten million dollars to 1:42:46.880 --> 1:42:51.519 defeat us. One person someone who doesn't believe in reproductive freedom, 1:42:51.720 --> 1:42:54.960 someone who believes in convert. I mean the extremes of 1:42:55.000 --> 1:42:59.519 the Republican Party. One billionaire every week, ten million dollars 1:42:59.640 --> 1:43:04.599 ten thirty million in county. You had Mike Johnson write 1:43:04.640 --> 1:43:06.720 his first check. And who, by the way, who are 1:43:06.720 --> 1:43:10.400 the biggest donors behind that check. Guys like Elon musk 1:43:10.880 --> 1:43:14.599 Ye know what we're up against and know that you're 1:43:14.640 --> 1:43:18.760 the antidote to those folks, and we can defeat them. 1:43:19.120 --> 1:43:21.280 Yeah, and that's why we need these resources so we 1:43:21.320 --> 1:43:23.920 can counter the right wing money machine who are really 1:43:23.960 --> 1:43:26.400 hoping to defeat this proposition, so they can keep Donald 1:43:26.400 --> 1:43:29.160 Trump and his billionaire agenda going because they're getting everything 1:43:29.160 --> 1:43:31.439 they want right now, and it's so important that we 1:43:31.479 --> 1:43:33.160 counter their messaging. I was talking to one of my 1:43:33.160 --> 1:43:35.160 neighbors on the dog walk the other day, because I 1:43:35.160 --> 1:43:36.760 do have a big dog I could put right here 1:43:36.800 --> 1:43:37.360 on my lap that he. 1:43:37.360 --> 1:43:38.439 Could take up the whole screen. 1:43:38.960 --> 1:43:40.680 And he said to me, why am I getting all 1:43:40.680 --> 1:43:43.559 these emails about no On fifty? And I said, because 1:43:43.600 --> 1:43:48.040 they have so much money, an absurd amount of money 1:43:48.160 --> 1:43:54.000 to keep defeating democracy. These people have spent forty years 1:43:54.040 --> 1:43:56.320 trying to dismantle it. I do not think they thought 1:43:56.360 --> 1:43:58.320 the Democrats were going to fight back here, and it's 1:43:58.320 --> 1:44:01.320 why we're so grateful to you for stepping up. And 1:44:01.360 --> 1:44:03.559 now they have to spend a ton of money to 1:44:03.640 --> 1:44:06.800 make a counter punch look like a first punch, and 1:44:06.960 --> 1:44:08.559 they're the ones that brought this fight, and we're just 1:44:08.600 --> 1:44:10.040 finally standing up to the cheating. 1:44:10.479 --> 1:44:10.559 No. 1:44:10.680 --> 1:44:13.960 I love that, And it was said by a number 1:44:14.000 --> 1:44:17.760 of people this was not the fight we chose. But 1:44:18.120 --> 1:44:20.599 I think what you just said was even more powerful. 1:44:20.760 --> 1:44:24.240 I don't think Trump for a second expected us to 1:44:24.320 --> 1:44:27.000 fight back like we're fighting back. And that's why failure 1:44:27.160 --> 1:44:30.040 is not an option. It is not an option. I mean, 1:44:30.080 --> 1:44:33.519 I can't even conceive of the impact if we run short. 1:44:33.600 --> 1:44:35.840 We can't run the ninety yard dash on this. I 1:44:35.880 --> 1:44:39.479 mean twenty twenty six. If we limp into twenty twenty six, 1:44:40.439 --> 1:44:43.240 we're in real trouble. So we can build the kind 1:44:43.280 --> 1:44:47.320 of momentum. Twenty twenty six begins this November, and it's 1:44:47.400 --> 1:44:50.960 November six, but as Pete and others just said, it's 1:44:51.000 --> 1:44:55.560 really October six, because those ballots land in people's mailbox 1:44:55.920 --> 1:44:59.240 in just a few weeks. Early voting is October six. 1:44:59.360 --> 1:45:04.080 It ends on November sixth, and that's the opportunity for 1:45:04.160 --> 1:45:07.400 folks to remind everybody the power of early voting, the 1:45:07.479 --> 1:45:10.840 power of emulation, meaning emulate kind of the things you 1:45:10.920 --> 1:45:13.760 heard here tonight, and the kind of energy and the 1:45:13.840 --> 1:45:16.519 carrying and daring that so many people share tonight. 1:45:17.240 --> 1:45:19.599 And to make sure that we don't dream of regretting. 1:45:19.960 --> 1:45:22.479 We got to put everything out on the line, because 1:45:22.560 --> 1:45:25.240 this is about holding the line, and it's about holding 1:45:25.360 --> 1:45:26.960 up this democracy. 1:45:27.640 --> 1:45:29.600 Yeah, I know you wish it wasn't like this. I 1:45:29.680 --> 1:45:30.519 wish it wasn't like this. 1:45:30.680 --> 1:45:33.280 But I keep saying, like there's no pointing and planning, 1:45:33.400 --> 1:45:35.479 like these aren't the rules. When the other team keeps 1:45:35.560 --> 1:45:38.120 round house kicking us to the face, right, it doesn't 1:45:38.200 --> 1:45:41.080 matter that this isn't how politics is supposed to be played. 1:45:41.400 --> 1:45:43.799 If it is being allowed, then the rules have changed 1:45:44.040 --> 1:45:46.400 and we either kick back or we keep getting beat. 1:45:46.479 --> 1:45:48.000 And I think I speak for many of us when 1:45:48.040 --> 1:45:50.880 I say we are sick and tired of losing. 1:45:51.400 --> 1:45:54.920 You got it, and again we're using I said it before, 1:45:55.200 --> 1:45:58.200 not just our formal authority by organizing this construct and 1:45:58.240 --> 1:46:00.320 putting it on the ballot, but are moral the authority 1:46:00.400 --> 1:46:04.000 by doing something that's never been done if you still 1:46:04.040 --> 1:46:07.439 have some hesitancy, you still have some doubt. Well, you know, 1:46:07.760 --> 1:46:10.639 I don't like, you know, just emulating the bad behavior. 1:46:10.680 --> 1:46:12.800 I don't want them to implicate me in the way 1:46:12.880 --> 1:46:17.040 they do things. This is democratic, This is transparent. The 1:46:17.200 --> 1:46:20.920 maps are on the ballot. That's never happened in this country. 1:46:21.680 --> 1:46:25.000 We have never submitted to the people the ability to 1:46:25.200 --> 1:46:29.320 draw their own maps. So we're giving the people that power. 1:46:29.439 --> 1:46:31.840 This was not done in mar Lago. This was not 1:46:32.000 --> 1:46:35.200 done behind closed doors, as was the case in Texas, 1:46:35.560 --> 1:46:38.480 As is going to be the case shortly in Indiana, 1:46:38.520 --> 1:46:41.040 and what just happened in Missouri and what is likely 1:46:41.120 --> 1:46:44.360 to happen in Florida, in Ohio and elsewhere. This is 1:46:44.439 --> 1:46:46.960 done in the most transparent way. And again in a 1:46:47.120 --> 1:46:53.160 temporary response, a temporary response to what Donald Trump and 1:46:53.439 --> 1:46:58.160 what the Texas delegation did in greg Abne in just 1:46:58.240 --> 1:47:04.200 a few weeks ago. So pressed upon people more that 1:47:04.439 --> 1:47:07.360 this is it, this is it, and we've got to 1:47:07.439 --> 1:47:09.400 hold the line. We've got to hold each other's hands. 1:47:09.439 --> 1:47:12.560 We got to walk across this line at peak, and 1:47:12.640 --> 1:47:15.640 we've got to, as you say, fire with fire, and 1:47:15.760 --> 1:47:17.679 we've got to be muscular in terms of our approach 1:47:17.760 --> 1:47:18.320 and response. 1:47:18.800 --> 1:47:19.200 That's right. 1:47:19.479 --> 1:47:21.880 Absolutely. I want to thank you so much for doing 1:47:21.920 --> 1:47:24.400 this today, Governor. It's what we all really really need. 1:47:24.720 --> 1:47:26.400 And for people who are feeling a little bit like 1:47:26.479 --> 1:47:28.120 two wrongs don't make a right and I'm not sure 1:47:28.120 --> 1:47:30.280 if I should go for this, understand that this is 1:47:30.360 --> 1:47:32.479 going in the most democratic way possible. This is a 1:47:32.560 --> 1:47:34.680 temporary thing, and the goal at the end of this 1:47:34.800 --> 1:47:37.439 would we have no gerrymandering at all. It's why the 1:47:37.520 --> 1:47:40.400 Democrats voted for the for the People's Act in twenty nineteen, 1:47:40.600 --> 1:47:42.880 it's why they voted for the redistricting reformat again in 1:47:42.920 --> 1:47:45.640 twenty twenty one, and why the Republicans voted against it 1:47:45.800 --> 1:47:48.720 both times because it is the Republicans who benefit from 1:47:48.880 --> 1:47:52.080 locking in power, so it's no longer accountable to the voters. 1:47:52.320 --> 1:47:53.880 And this is not what we want, which is why 1:47:53.920 --> 1:47:56.880 we are starting by doing this by being accountable to 1:47:56.960 --> 1:47:58.840 the voters. So thank you so much, Governor. I hope 1:47:58.840 --> 1:48:01.479 people will go to yes on fifty live right now 1:48:01.560 --> 1:48:03.719 and get us past that mark. But thank you everyone, 1:48:03.760 --> 1:48:05.479 and I really hope you're feeling the same hope I'm 1:48:05.479 --> 1:48:06.080 feeling today. 1:48:06.680 --> 1:48:10.080 Love itly well said Thanks so much, Lee, and bring 1:48:10.200 --> 1:48:10.479 it home. 1:48:10.560 --> 1:48:12.960 Bring it home, and Governor Newsom, I gotta say, and 1:48:13.280 --> 1:48:15.200 I know I've said this before, but it's worth repeating. 1:48:15.840 --> 1:48:18.840 There are a million reasons to have not done this. 1:48:19.320 --> 1:48:21.639 That it's too hard, that it's too close to the election, 1:48:21.880 --> 1:48:23.920 that there's too many people standing in the way, that 1:48:24.040 --> 1:48:26.320 it would just be easier if we just practice good 1:48:26.400 --> 1:48:29.879 governance and unilaterally disarmed like Democrats always do. The reality 1:48:30.040 --> 1:48:32.639 is that thanks to your leadership, thanks to the leadership 1:48:32.640 --> 1:48:35.960 of the California Democrats, we got this thing done, which 1:48:36.080 --> 1:48:38.880 is which is half the battle right now, and so 1:48:38.960 --> 1:48:41.080 I'll repeat my plea to those who are watching right now. 1:48:42.160 --> 1:48:44.720 The reality is we got to get this thing in 1:48:44.800 --> 1:48:47.519 front of as many Californians as humanly possible. And the 1:48:47.560 --> 1:48:50.040 way that we do that is by looking to those 1:48:50.080 --> 1:48:53.720 grassroots donations. We don't have these billionaires megabillionaires who are 1:48:53.760 --> 1:48:56.560 donating ten million bucks a pop like they have on 1:48:56.640 --> 1:48:59.280 the Republican side, because they know that if they can 1:48:59.360 --> 1:49:01.840 neutralize what happens in California, then they're good to go. 1:49:01.960 --> 1:49:04.120 There's no other big weapons to deploy like we have 1:49:04.240 --> 1:49:07.240 in California, and so our antidote to that is going 1:49:07.280 --> 1:49:09.960 to be getting as many people in the grassroots donating 1:49:10.000 --> 1:49:12.479 as humanly possible. We're just a few thousand bucks away 1:49:12.479 --> 1:49:15.280 from seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars a quarter three 1:49:15.360 --> 1:49:17.519 quarters of a million dollars, and that money is going 1:49:17.560 --> 1:49:19.320 to help get this thing in front of so many 1:49:19.400 --> 1:49:21.800 Californians who don't know what the stakes are of this 1:49:21.960 --> 1:49:25.439 upcoming election on November fourth. It's going to make sure 1:49:25.479 --> 1:49:27.439 that we can get in front of people's TV screens, 1:49:27.640 --> 1:49:30.760 on their computer screens, on their phone screens, in their mailboxes, 1:49:31.000 --> 1:49:34.000 and we can't do that without this massive amount of support. 1:49:34.040 --> 1:49:36.519 So for everybody who's donated, thank you so much for 1:49:36.640 --> 1:49:38.360 being part of this effort. Thank you for being part 1:49:38.400 --> 1:49:41.080 of this movement, and also thank you being for being 1:49:41.200 --> 1:49:44.880 part of helping give something of a permission structure for 1:49:45.040 --> 1:49:48.400 other Democrats across the country to recognize that if they 1:49:48.600 --> 1:49:51.639 take aggressive action, if they take a forward leaning posture 1:49:52.200 --> 1:49:55.679 when it comes to fighting for our democracy, that they're 1:49:55.720 --> 1:49:57.840 going to have the people behind them. This is not 1:49:58.080 --> 1:50:00.679 just a California thing. Not only does it have major 1:50:00.720 --> 1:50:03.439 implications for the House as we head toward twenty twenty six. 1:50:03.640 --> 1:50:06.240 But this is also a message to other democratic governors, 1:50:06.439 --> 1:50:10.280 other democratic state legislatures that the answer is not to cower, 1:50:10.400 --> 1:50:12.680 it is not to capitulate. It is to put on 1:50:12.800 --> 1:50:14.719 your big boy pants and fight. 1:50:15.000 --> 1:50:16.320 And that's what we're seeing right now. 1:50:16.439 --> 1:50:17.000 And the way that. 1:50:18.800 --> 1:50:20.920 We make sure to give that permission structure to other 1:50:21.200 --> 1:50:23.680 Democrats to do that is by making sure that we 1:50:23.800 --> 1:50:24.519 succeed here. 1:50:24.920 --> 1:50:27.640 This is the test case. If it succeeds here, then 1:50:27.720 --> 1:50:28.960 it shows every other. 1:50:28.920 --> 1:50:32.120 Governor, every other state legislature, every other lawmaker senator across 1:50:32.160 --> 1:50:34.720 the country that the answer in this moment is not 1:50:34.880 --> 1:50:37.880 to bow down. It's not to capitulate to Trump and Republicans. 1:50:38.080 --> 1:50:40.879 It's not to appeal to our better angels and practice 1:50:40.920 --> 1:50:42.679 good governance and unilaterally disarm. 1:50:42.920 --> 1:50:45.600 It is to lean forward and fight. And that's what 1:50:45.680 --> 1:50:46.519 we're seeing right now. 1:50:47.160 --> 1:50:49.880 And of course, the ability to win this fight relies 1:50:49.960 --> 1:50:52.880 on everybody chipping in whatever we can to make this 1:50:53.040 --> 1:50:56.960 thing a reality. So Governor, on behalf of everybody watching 1:50:57.280 --> 1:50:59.880 cannot thank you enough for leading in the way that 1:51:00.040 --> 1:51:02.000 we've been begging so many people to lead, which is 1:51:02.080 --> 1:51:05.639 to to you know, back up, back up your words 1:51:05.680 --> 1:51:06.280 with some action. 1:51:06.280 --> 1:51:08.720 Here I love it, and I'm asking you for one 1:51:08.840 --> 1:51:10.640 last action because we're going to hit seven hundred and 1:51:10.640 --> 1:51:13.000 fifty thousand, but it's going to require one thing, Brian. 1:51:13.960 --> 1:51:18.200 That's not anymore your time, but one more, one more 1:51:18.280 --> 1:51:21.639 opportunity to see that beautiful dog of yours. 1:51:22.200 --> 1:51:23.519 All Right, you know what this is it? 1:51:24.320 --> 1:51:26.400 This is It is how we get This is how 1:51:26.439 --> 1:51:28.599 we get over three quarters of a million dollars. 1:51:29.600 --> 1:51:33.320 This is it, Brian, No pressure. Here we go, look 1:51:33.360 --> 1:51:34.000 at this, there we go. 1:51:34.560 --> 1:51:36.559 I'm not asking you to do it for me. I'm 1:51:36.600 --> 1:51:38.800 asking you to do it for this little guy. This 1:51:39.000 --> 1:51:41.439 is this is Don't do it for me, don't do it. 1:51:41.600 --> 1:51:42.840 Don't even do it for democracy. 1:51:43.000 --> 1:51:43.280 Just do it. 1:51:43.479 --> 1:51:45.840 Just do it for this child right here who doesn't 1:51:45.880 --> 1:51:46.360 know why, he. 1:51:46.520 --> 1:51:49.280 Doesn't know why I'm subjecting himself to these live streams 1:51:49.320 --> 1:51:49.960 over and over and over. 1:51:50.000 --> 1:51:55.439 He's already he's already passed out. Unbelievable. Look at that, hey, Brian, 1:51:55.640 --> 1:51:56.320 your rock star. 1:51:56.479 --> 1:51:59.760 The fact you hosted this three hours, unbelievable to all 1:51:59.840 --> 1:52:03.200 our influencers, all of our creators, to all the remarkable 1:52:03.200 --> 1:52:05.519 elected of feudals officials across the country. 1:52:05.760 --> 1:52:06.320 For those of you. 1:52:06.560 --> 1:52:09.639 Tuned in even for two minutes for the last two hours, 1:52:09.760 --> 1:52:11.920 Thank you those of you who made a contribution, We're 1:52:12.000 --> 1:52:13.200 grateful beyond words. 1:52:13.520 --> 1:52:16.400 Get the word out there, let folks know yes on 1:52:16.560 --> 1:52:17.240 Prop fifty. 1:52:17.880 --> 1:52:19.639 Thanks so much, Governor. And for those who are looking 1:52:19.680 --> 1:52:22.000 to donate, Yes on fifty live dot com. 1:52:22.439 --> 1:52:23.080 Thanks everybody,