Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, I'm Brian Tayler Cohen. Thank you so much
Speaker 1: for tuning into our Yes on fifty Voter Registration Day rally.
Speaker 1: We've got an amazing guest list today. We're joined by
Speaker 1: some of the biggest fighters on the left who are
Speaker 1: meeting this moment with the urgency that it deserves. And
Speaker 1: of course I'm joined now by Governor Gavin Newsom.
Speaker 2: Before we get into a little.
Speaker 1: Bit of our back and forth, just want to let
Speaker 1: folks who are watching know that we are hosting this
Speaker 1: rally because of what's happening right now, and what's happening
Speaker 1: right now is existential, not just for the left but
Speaker 1: for democracy. We have watched as Trump has issued his
Speaker 1: clarion call to Texas for five seats and how they responded.
Speaker 1: We've watched as he did the same thing in Missouri
Speaker 1: and how they responded. We're going to see the same
Speaker 1: thing in Indiana and then Florida, and I wouldn't be
Speaker 1: surprised if we see other states do the exact same thing.
Speaker 1: The reality is that this is how Republicans engineered themselves
Speaker 1: into a permanent majority, which may makes it all the
Speaker 1: more important that we actually fight back. So the whole
Speaker 1: Republican movement across the country is going to pour money
Speaker 1: into California because they know that if they can beat
Speaker 1: this thing in California, then they have nothing to worry
Speaker 1: about in terms of pushing back against this overt blatant
Speaker 1: power grab.
Speaker 2: So what we'll ask you to do.
Speaker 1: Throughout this evening as we try and raise money to
Speaker 1: counteract the avalanche of funds that are going to come
Speaker 1: in from across the country on the Republican side, is
Speaker 1: we're going to ask you to go ahead and donate
Speaker 1: to Yes on fifty live dot com. This will help
Speaker 1: our efforts to make sure that everybody in California knows
Speaker 1: the stakes of what's going to happen on November fourth,
Speaker 1: knows the stakes of this referendum coming up, and knows
Speaker 1: that it is existential again not just for Democrats, but
Speaker 1: for the preservation of democracy itself. So that's going to
Speaker 1: be an important point that we're going to hit on
Speaker 1: a numerous times throughout this evening. So with that said,
Speaker 1: I'm now honored to be joined by the Governor of California, Gavenus,
Speaker 1: and thanks so much for taking the time.
Speaker 3: It's great to be with you. Brian, Thank you.
Speaker 1: So we are obviously broadcasting right now in the midst of.
Speaker 2: A really difficult week.
Speaker 1: We have seen gun violence occur with the shooting last
Speaker 1: week against Charlie Kirk. We have seen the overt assaults
Speaker 1: against free speech at the hands of Donald Trump and
Speaker 1: Pam Bondi and all of these other purported free speech warriors.
Speaker 1: And so in light of what we're seeing right now,
Speaker 1: I'm sure that there are a lot of folks who
Speaker 1: are watching this who feel, you know, exhausted, And so
Speaker 1: what would you say to those people who are watching
Speaker 1: to let them know that this is worth staying on
Speaker 1: top of, this is worth continuing to fight for.
Speaker 3: Well, I first say is you're a human.
Speaker 4: If you're not feeling exhausted, exhausting and anxious in some
Speaker 4: ways fearful, then you're not breathing, you're not living.
Speaker 3: And I just I think we have to give some
Speaker 3: people grace.
Speaker 4: The last five six, seven years, we've been through a
Speaker 4: once in a lifetime pandemic social unrest. We went through
Speaker 4: all of the challenges coming out of COVID, with supply
Speaker 4: chain issues and away inflation and wars of aggression and Ukraine,
Speaker 4: and challenges that were continuing to work our way out,
Speaker 4: and so I just want to acknowledge all that stacking
Speaker 4: of stress that everybody's feeling. And of course last week,
Speaker 4: you know, just the the ultimate punctuation. And for just
Speaker 4: for what it's worth, Brian, you know this. I started
Speaker 4: a podcast not too many months ago and Charlie Kirk
Speaker 4: was my first guest. He was gracious enough to not
Speaker 4: only say yes, he flew out to do it in person,
Speaker 4: and I spend not just the hour plus in a
Speaker 4: very civil conversation with Charlie, I spent time with him
Speaker 4: after and we stayed in touch, including my teams, staying
Speaker 4: in touch pretty consistently. And that's the spirit I want
Speaker 4: to bring to this conversation is one of civility, one
Speaker 4: of grace, one of humanity, common humanity. Obviously we have
Speaker 4: deep differences of opinion. Obviously he was very offended by
Speaker 4: positions I hold dear, and I in turn very offended
Speaker 4: by things that he said and positions he held. But
Speaker 4: the fact is we had that opportunity to engage, and
Speaker 4: so I would say, in response to your question, it's
Speaker 4: absolutely essential that we, in the spirit of this moment,
Speaker 4: hold ourselves to a higher level of civility and accountability
Speaker 4: in the spirit of this conversation, accountability to the moment
Speaker 4: we're in and the consequences of giving into cynicism and
Speaker 4: anxiety and fear. And I just say to everyone and
Speaker 4: closing in this spirit, you're the antidote to that cynicism,
Speaker 4: that fear and anxiety. The fact that you've tuned in
Speaker 4: means you've not tuned out to what's at stake. And
Speaker 4: I cannot impress upon people watching it's all at stake.
Speaker 4: This is a profound and consequential moment in American history.
Speaker 3: We can lose this republic if we do not.
Speaker 4: Assert ourselves and stand tall at this moment and stand
Speaker 4: guard to this republic in our democra. Chris, I feel
Speaker 4: that in my bones, particularly in light of what's happened
Speaker 4: in the last week.
Speaker 1: So let's talk about the California map redraw, this situation
Speaker 1: that we're in right now. We have, you know, not
Speaker 1: that many weeks to go until this referendum, until November,
Speaker 1: and so they're going to be folks watching who say, look,
Speaker 1: California is a big blue bastion. Why do we have
Speaker 1: to worry about this? This thing is already a done deal.
Speaker 1: Why is this worth talking about right now?
Speaker 4: Well, because it's Prop fifty for a reason, impacts all
Speaker 4: fifty states. It's not an electoral map. It's a simple
Speaker 4: math issue.
Speaker 3: You said it.
Speaker 4: In the oddset, Donald Trump realizes and recognizes that he.
Speaker 3: Is likely, almost overwhelmingly.
Speaker 4: Likely to lose the midterms, and so he's trying to
Speaker 4: hold on to power. And the only way you can
Speaker 4: hold onto power is to rig the system, to change
Speaker 4: the game. He's not playing by a different set of roles.
Speaker 4: He's playing by no rules whatsoever. And that's why he
Speaker 4: dialed up Greg Abbott Intoxis and suggested that he's quote
Speaker 4: unquote entitled to five seats. They did his bidding, and
Speaker 4: as you suggest that bidding is being done in real
Speaker 4: time in Missouri, in Indiana, it will be advanced in
Speaker 4: states like Florida. And you may have seen today the
Speaker 4: comments that were made about Utah and Ohio as well.
Speaker 4: So this is as real as it gets. And the
Speaker 4: whole idea of redistricting, i assure you, is the tip
Speaker 4: of the iceberg, because he's also setting up the parameters
Speaker 4: in the condition where he can suggest that when he loses,
Speaker 4: that's up to us if we do our job. When
Speaker 4: he loses the midterm, he could suggest it was rigged itself.
Speaker 4: He's quite creating a chill. And let me give you
Speaker 4: an example of what I mean by that as it
Speaker 4: relates to voter turnout and intimidation tactics. When we kicked
Speaker 4: off the campaign for Yes On fifty, we did it
Speaker 4: at the Democracy Center in southern California. Brian, you were
Speaker 4: there in little Tokyo. Well, and many of you watch
Speaker 4: you know this well. Litu Tokyo is the site of
Speaker 4: sacred site where we shamefully bust the Japanese as we
Speaker 4: interned the Japanese. That happened, and at that exact same site,
Speaker 4: Donald Trump sent masked private army, He sent out border
Speaker 4: patrol and ice to intimidate to US senators, a half
Speaker 4: dozen or dozen members of Congress, one hundred plus community
Speaker 4: leaders to try to intimidate us from holding the rally
Speaker 4: in the first place. And a poor soul that just
Speaker 4: happened to be out there selling strawberries was disappeared by
Speaker 4: that same private army. That is a preview of things
Speaker 4: to come, I assure you. At voting booths and polling
Speaker 4: places across this country, just as we said after he
Speaker 4: federalized the National Guard, and he sent the military not overseas,
Speaker 4: he sent the military to a United States city in
Speaker 4: Los Angeles, seven hundred active duty marines is intended to
Speaker 4: chill free speech and free expression. The stakes could not
Speaker 4: be more clear, and the stakes could not be more consequential.
Speaker 2: And finally, let's finish off with this.
Speaker 1: There are folks who are going to say that this isn't,
Speaker 1: this isn't an example of good governance. And so Democrats
Speaker 1: should should kind of practice what they preach and not
Speaker 1: do the same thing that they have disavowed for so long.
Speaker 1: And so in this particular moment, what do you say
Speaker 1: to those people.
Speaker 3: Well, we can certainly do that.
Speaker 4: We can have a candlelight vigil, we can hold hands,
Speaker 4: we can talk about the way the world should be.
Speaker 3: We can come out with a white paper and.
Speaker 4: Talk about, well, how did all this happen? They're gonna
Speaker 4: be some best selling books. As we watched our democracy
Speaker 4: slip away, as we watched the rule of law law
Speaker 4: turn into the rule of dawn. As we watch yet
Speaker 4: another law firm or another media organization sell their soul,
Speaker 4: or to see another corporate titan sitting there and give
Speaker 4: personal you know, sit there and fealty to the dear leader.
Speaker 3: We could see more.
Speaker 4: Companies get socialized and nationalized. We can watch universities sell out.
Speaker 4: We can see this democracy slip through our fingers. We
Speaker 4: can sit there and say, boy, people really should have
Speaker 4: stood up and taken this guy, Stephen Miller a little
Speaker 4: bit more seriously when he called the Democratic Party a
Speaker 4: terrorist organization, or taking the Department of Justice and it's
Speaker 4: an attorney general, it's leader who said that any speech
Speaker 4: they don't like is now hate speech, and they'll have
Speaker 4: the ability to shut it down and say, boy, we
Speaker 4: could have done something more. Or we can recognize the
Speaker 4: moment we're in and we can meet that moment and
Speaker 4: we can push back, and we do it with some muscularity.
Speaker 4: We did this in response to what Donald Trump has done,
Speaker 4: and we've done it in closing Brian in the most
Speaker 4: democratic way. And I would say that to those still
Speaker 4: on the fence, that's the difference between us and them.
Speaker 4: We're not only using our formal authority, our ability to
Speaker 4: fight fire with fire and redistrict, but we're using our
Speaker 4: moral authority in this respect. Fact, it's temporary, it's transparent
Speaker 4: and its democratic meaning we're putting in front of the voters.
Speaker 4: This is the first maps in the United States that
Speaker 4: will actually be submitted to the people themselves. The maps
Speaker 4: will be on the ballot, and it's a temporary response
Speaker 4: to this emergency, this crisis of the rigging of the midterms,
Speaker 4: and we need to win this at peril that will
Speaker 4: lose this republic, will lose this democracy. It is not
Speaker 4: an overstatement. This is code read. We all need to
Speaker 4: wake up to what's going on. And maybe, in final words,
Speaker 4: maybe I'm saying that from the prism of being a
Speaker 4: governor of a state where I watched the military asserting
Speaker 4: themselves to try to take over for domestic policing, where
Speaker 4: I watched this private army that is the most funded
Speaker 4: private army of its type anywhere in the world, with
Speaker 4: ice out there in masks, intimidating people, and they're free
Speaker 4: expression of speech. Maybe it's because I'm sitting here where
Speaker 4: the UC regions are meeting tomorrow to discuss a one
Speaker 4: point nine billion dollar extortion fine because institutions of higher
Speaker 4: learning and independent thinking are under assault by Donald Trump.
Speaker 4: That happens to be UCLA in my state, maybe it's
Speaker 4: to the prison of that, but I assure you in
Speaker 4: every state in America, I assure you this is a
Speaker 4: preview of things to come perfectly.
Speaker 1: Put and to underscore how important that is. The reality
Speaker 1: is Republicans know all of these things, which is why, again,
Speaker 1: as I mentioned in the beginning, they're going to pour
Speaker 1: a ton of money into this effort, because if they
Speaker 1: can neutralize California, that's all they need, especially with the
Speaker 1: weapons that they have at their disposal, meeting Texas, Missouri, Indiana, Florida,
Speaker 1: and on and on. So for those who are watching
Speaker 1: right now, if you'd like to help us make sure
Speaker 1: that everybody can become aware of what's happening in California,
Speaker 1: please donate what you can to yes on fifty live
Speaker 1: dot com and we'll be repeating that throughout the evening.
Speaker 1: With that said, i'd like to take the opportunity now
Speaker 1: to introduce my friends at Crooked Media, two of the
Speaker 1: hosts for Podsave America, John Favreau and Tommy vitur uhrookd
Speaker 1: Potsave America, of course, is a liberal podcast, and Crooked
Speaker 1: is a media organization that was started after these guys
Speaker 1: served in senior positions in the Obama administration. John Favreau
Speaker 1: is the chief speech writer and Tommy was the spokesman
Speaker 1: for the National Security Council. It is my honor to
Speaker 1: introduce my friends John and Tommy.
Speaker 5: That's the nice as interesting.
Speaker 2: Jeez, yeah, you can, you can. You guys can pay
Speaker 2: me afterwards, We already do.
Speaker 5: I bet you go stipend.
Speaker 3: Listen.
Speaker 6: Thank you all for being here, thank you for inviting
Speaker 6: us to the last Stream, thank you for raising money
Speaker 6: for this initiative, and Governor k Newsom for for putting
Speaker 6: this proposal forward. Uh, it's been a really scary tough week.
Speaker 6: I think for everybody what happened to Charlie Kirk is
Speaker 6: an evil, indefensible tragedy, full stop, end of sentence. That
Speaker 6: that said, what Donald Trump has signaled to come is
Speaker 6: very scary, and it sort of reminds you of what
Speaker 6: this country could look like if there is no check
Speaker 6: on his power. And I think we have all thought
Speaker 6: and hoped and believed that the first check on his
Speaker 6: power would be the midterm elections. But clearly Donald Trump
Speaker 6: wants to steal the midterms through this redistributing process, and
Speaker 6: we have to fight back. So that's why this is
Speaker 6: such an important proposition.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think this is pretty simple. In an ideal world,
Speaker 7: there would be no partisan jerry mandering and everyone would
Speaker 7: sign on to the bill Democrats introduced a couple of
Speaker 7: years ago to have independent, nonpartisan redistricting all over the country.
Speaker 7: That is not the world we live in. Donald Trump
Speaker 7: decided one day that he wanted to squeeze five more
Speaker 7: seats out of Texas and basically has been pretty honest
Speaker 7: about it. There's no pretext here, there's no he's not
Speaker 7: trying to hide it. He's just saying, I want five
Speaker 7: more seats, and now I want all the other states
Speaker 7: that can give me more seats to redraw so they
Speaker 7: can give me more seats as well. So then it's
Speaker 7: easier for me to win the midterms. So then I
Speaker 7: don't have to be investigated for anything. My administration doesn't
Speaker 7: have to be investigated for anything, and I can continue
Speaker 7: to confirm judges and pass all kinds of legislation. And
Speaker 7: if we win the midterms, Donald Trump will never sign
Speaker 7: a piece of legislation again. If we win the midterms,
Speaker 7: we can start trying to hold his administration accountable. And
Speaker 7: so this now comes down to Prop fifty. And I
Speaker 7: know some people might think, well, it's California, Democratic voter
Speaker 7: registration advantage should be no problem. It's going to be
Speaker 7: a lower turnout election, and so a lot of political junkies,
Speaker 7: like the people who are probably watching this live stream,
Speaker 7: are going to show up and that's that.
Speaker 8: Well.
Speaker 7: The other side is going to spend millions and millions
Speaker 7: and millions of dollars to try to defeat this because
Speaker 7: Donald Trump and the Republicans are very aware that if
Speaker 7: we draw the maps here to you know, try to
Speaker 7: neutralize what they're doing in Texas and other places, that
Speaker 7: it's going to be a harder for them to win.
Speaker 7: And you know, reporting suggests that on Donald Trump's mind
Speaker 7: are the midterms more than they ever have been. He
Speaker 7: is very very intent on winning these. He's very very
Speaker 7: nervous about the possibility of being investigated, his administration being investigated.
Speaker 7: So they are going to dump an enormous amount of
Speaker 7: money in here, and they're going to try to get
Speaker 7: their base going and to get people to turn out
Speaker 7: in midterm elections that don't usually turn out, that usually
Speaker 7: just turn out for Donald Trump in presidential year. So
Speaker 7: they're throwing everything they have into this, which is why
Speaker 7: it's really really important for everyone to donate so that
Speaker 7: we can get the word out, so that Governor Newsom
Speaker 7: can get the word out. And ballot initiatives in California
Speaker 7: are always a little confusing, having lived here for quite
Speaker 7: a while now, and so we have to remind everyone
Speaker 7: through communication, through spending money on ads that you got
Speaker 7: to vote yes on this to make sure that we
Speaker 7: have a chance in the mid term to take back
Speaker 7: the House. So please, if you can donate to yes
Speaker 7: on fifty live dot com, you can go right there
Speaker 7: and donate. And thanks everyone for listening and for tuning in.
Speaker 6: And now we're gonna we're gonna bring in a Massachusetts luminary.
Speaker 9: Yes.
Speaker 6: Senator Elizabeth Warren is on the stream.
Speaker 5: Our real home states senator Centator.
Speaker 6: Great to see you.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I just see you.
Speaker 11: Guys.
Speaker 6: The Patriots are one and one. That's the best news
Speaker 6: I've gotten all week.
Speaker 3: How are you?
Speaker 12: I do it just fine? Thank you very much personally.
Speaker 12: But do keep in mind I am here in Washington, DC,
Speaker 12: and I go in every day that I'm here to
Speaker 12: work in a Senate controlled by spineless Republicans and to
Speaker 12: worry about what comes over from the House, which is
Speaker 12: controlled by spineless Republicans. You know, I you keep thinking
Speaker 12: about why are they pouring so much into this? And
Speaker 12: I think you make exactly one important point. And then
Speaker 12: as Donald Trump does not want to be investigated but
Speaker 12: to I want to dig a little more on this
Speaker 12: because part of what's at stake here is that what
Speaker 12: Donald Trump has been able to do over the last
Speaker 12: how long has it been one hundred and fifty eight years,
Speaker 12: since since January when he was sworn in, is that
Speaker 12: he has been able to break the law over and
Speaker 12: over and over and over and over and over, and
Speaker 12: people say, what can we do? We'll I'll tell you
Speaker 12: if just the tiny number of Republicans in the House
Speaker 12: or the Senate was like, we're done, We're not doing that.
Speaker 12: You can't do that, Donald Trump, Yes you are president,
Speaker 12: but here are things you cannot do, and used our
Speaker 12: leverage and said we won't pass anything out of the
Speaker 12: House and of the Congress, we won't give you funding.
Speaker 12: There are all these things we would have power to do.
Speaker 12: The problem is the Republicans just try to outdo each other,
Speaker 12: and how fast they fall to the floor to kiss
Speaker 12: Donald Trump's feet, and the consequence of that is the
Speaker 12: whole basic structure of government now is breaking apart. So
Speaker 12: here we have Donald Trump, the would be king, and
Speaker 12: Congress under the constitution. There was always this unspoken presumption
Speaker 12: we're jealously guard its power. Well, it's not under Republican control.
Speaker 12: It is acting in a like a frightened child, you know,
Speaker 12: just anything Donald Trump wants. Just don't let him get
Speaker 12: angry with us. And so you've got the House and
Speaker 12: the Senate under Republican control just falling to the ground.
Speaker 12: The difference if we had either of the houses under
Speaker 12: democratic control is that stops. And if we have both
Speaker 12: houses under democratic con role, now we are truly back
Speaker 12: in the game in terms of making our constitution work again.
Speaker 12: And so I just think it's an important part for
Speaker 12: everybody to understand. It's about the midterms. Yes, yes, yes,
Speaker 12: but please understand how important these midterms are. Any accountability
Speaker 12: for Donald Trump, any accountability it's going to come because
Speaker 12: of the midterms, whether it's investigations, whether it's we get
Speaker 12: spending back it. You'll want to support cancer research, so
Speaker 12: do I let me tell you the way to do that,
Speaker 12: that is vote yes I'm fifty, so that we have
Speaker 12: a chance to get the House back, and that means
Speaker 12: we can be in those negotiations and make sure that
Speaker 12: the money that Congress allocates for cancer spending actually gets
Speaker 12: spent on trying to cure cancer. And I can just
Speaker 12: play that example out literally a thousand times.
Speaker 6: I mean, you said it was incredible today watching cash
Speaker 6: Betel the FBI director's hearing for whatever committee that was,
Speaker 6: and he is just clearly performing for an audience of one.
Speaker 6: He is shouting down Democratic senators, he's insulting them, he's
Speaker 6: speaking over them, he's threatening them, essentially, and the Republican
Speaker 6: chairman was, you know, gabbling quiet the Democratic members, Like,
Speaker 6: to your point, at one point along the way, it
Speaker 6: seemed like each body or each institution like jealously guarded
Speaker 6: its own power above all else. But it seems like
Speaker 6: Republicans were just thrilled to watch this performance and to
Speaker 6: watch their colleagues be insulted.
Speaker 12: Right, Can I be just a little dorky and make
Speaker 12: the same point again, please? It is what's happening with
Speaker 12: the Federal Reserve. So here is the one agency that
Speaker 12: Democrats and Republicans have said for one hundred and zillion years. Yes,
Speaker 12: the FED needs to be independent. Why because the FED
Speaker 12: sometimes has to make really hard policy decisions, And so
Speaker 12: everybody wants confidence, whether you've got a Democrat or Republican
Speaker 12: in the White House, that they're doing it as best
Speaker 12: they can based on the numbers, based on what the
Speaker 12: economic data are. That's what we hope keeps our economy
Speaker 12: steady and helps protect Americans across this country. So what
Speaker 12: happens Donald Trump gets to nominate someone the guy he
Speaker 12: has nominated. This is no joke, doctor Myron. Now, since
Speaker 12: it is the president of the Council of Economic Advisors
Speaker 12: working in the White House for Trump, he's not going
Speaker 12: to give up that job. He wants to keep a
Speaker 12: foot in that boat while he goes over to the
Speaker 12: so called independent FED. And so every Republican Senator at
Speaker 12: our hearing last week in Banking, I know it didn't
Speaker 12: have all the sparkle of the Patel hearing, but every
Speaker 12: Republicans I believe in the independence of the FED. So
Speaker 12: I ask this guy, who's Donald Trump? So many I said,
Speaker 12: you're going to be a dependent, right, Well, he's going
Speaker 12: to be independent, he wrote up his notes. I will
Speaker 12: be independent. I will be mister independent. I said, great,
Speaker 12: let's just test out how independent you can be of
Speaker 12: Donald Trump. Did Donald Trump lose the twenty twenty election?
Speaker 12: Mister independent? Nah, could not answer that question. Well, it
Speaker 12: was ruled by a confirmed blah bl blah, right. He
Speaker 12: could not bring himself to say this, or so I said, Okay,
Speaker 12: let's go to another Let's go I realize that one sensitive.
Speaker 12: Let's go to what Donald Trump said when he fired
Speaker 12: the person who put out the labor statistics, the head
Speaker 12: of the uh Labor BLS Bureau of Labor Statistics. And
Speaker 12: I said, Donald Trump, and I read the quote, you know,
Speaker 12: said this person lied and tried to help Kamala and
Speaker 12: falsified data. And I said, is that true? Again, here's
Speaker 12: the guy who's chief economists literally could not say that. Maybe,
Speaker 12: just maybe the President got a word or too wrong
Speaker 12: when he called the head of BLS a liar and
Speaker 12: a chieat, and just maybe had overstepped a little bit.
Speaker 12: And I use that as an example of everybody who
Speaker 12: comes through to be confirmed starts with prostrating, prostrating themselves
Speaker 12: in front of Donald Trump. Might be looking and I
Speaker 12: am so grateful to Donald Trump. They all say, and
Speaker 12: I will do whatever he wants me to do. That's
Speaker 12: why I see Prop fifty as a fight for the
Speaker 12: independence of our democracy, a fight to say there's a
Speaker 12: check on power. For everybody who shut up for no kings,
Speaker 12: this is your chance in California to show up and
Speaker 12: just say.
Speaker 13: Power.
Speaker 14: We get it.
Speaker 12: Presidents should have power, but there's got to be a
Speaker 12: check on that power. And right now there ain't no
Speaker 12: check on that power. It's not coming from the Republicans
Speaker 12: in the House. It's not coming from the Republicans in
Speaker 12: the Senate. It's sure as heck not coming from other
Speaker 12: people in government. And this is our chance to get
Speaker 12: a foot back in the door on that.
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Speaker 1: It is my honor now to be able to introduce
Speaker 1: two more folks. We have Ben Macellus, who co founded
Speaker 1: the Midas Touch Network, which is the top viewed political
Speaker 1: YouTube channel and the most listened to podcast each month
Speaker 1: of this year. Huge congratulations to Ben and your brothers
Speaker 1: for what you've built in my dis touch. I could
Speaker 1: not be more proud to see that the left is
Speaker 1: fighting back and you guys are a huge, huge, huge
Speaker 1: part of that. So thank you for the work you're doing,
Speaker 1: and congratulations on all of the well deserved accolades that
Speaker 1: you guys have gotten. And I'm also going to call
Speaker 1: in Governor Newsom now, who of course is the center
Speaker 1: of all of this. We have been, you know, begging
Speaker 1: and pleading for Democrats who are willing to match their
Speaker 1: their words and their rhetoric with action, and nobody has
Speaker 1: better exemplified that than the Governor. So I'll let you
Speaker 1: both take it from here.
Speaker 15: Governor Newsom, it's great to see the man of the
Speaker 15: hour right now. When your name is on Donald Trump's
Speaker 15: social media, it seems on an almost hourly basis, whether
Speaker 15: it's Donald Trump claiming that he saved Los Angeles by
Speaker 15: turning on a magical faucet somewhere in the imaginary border
Speaker 15: between California and Canada, whether it's Donald Trump saying that
Speaker 15: he saved Los Angeles again a few months back, whether
Speaker 15: he whatever he was making up about you today, it
Speaker 15: seems that you standing up to him is having a
Speaker 15: certain type of reaction doesn't it.
Speaker 3: Oh, I appreciate that. It's a yeah, No, it's a
Speaker 3: point of pride.
Speaker 4: I mean there were there was almost forty eight hours
Speaker 4: where I felt he'd forgotten about me. But you're right, No,
Speaker 4: he tried to hit me on his way over to
Speaker 4: the UK. And it's just it's a reminder of what
Speaker 4: we're up against. Miss and disinformation, just complete bullshit excuse
Speaker 4: my language, that comes from Donald Trump. And that's why
Speaker 4: it's important that we're not only winning the war and
Speaker 4: the spirit of what Beto and Mark just brought to
Speaker 4: this conversation on the ground and the spirit of what
Speaker 4: Brian talked about in terms of this grassroots people power
Speaker 4: effort to push back against the well healed, but it's
Speaker 4: absolutely critical that we win the messaging war as well,
Speaker 4: that we organize in a much more I think, a
Speaker 4: much more intense way to communicate over and over and
Speaker 4: over again our message across the spectrum, which is just
Speaker 4: foundational on all these efforts.
Speaker 15: Look, the federal government once again is heading towards another
Speaker 15: shutdown potentially, but Donald Trump has ordered MAGA, Mike Johnson
Speaker 15: and Republiicskens do not even have conversations with Democrats He's
Speaker 15: repeatedly referred to Democrats as the enemy radical, don't deal
Speaker 15: with them, don't even talk to them. You've been in
Speaker 15: politics for a little bit. That's not the way it
Speaker 15: always was, But it is what Donald Trump has turned
Speaker 15: the body politic into today. Kind of this zero sum game,
Speaker 15: if you will, And we see it play out over
Speaker 15: and over again, and you know, it seems is the
Speaker 15: American people are letting their voices be heard right now,
Speaker 15: He's getting more and more nervous, hence trying to rig
Speaker 15: these midterms.
Speaker 3: No, look, I mean, I think what you've underscored is
Speaker 3: the fundamental point here. Trump is weakness. He's weakness masquerade
Speaker 3: his strength. He's flailing.
Speaker 4: The economy is cooling, Inflation starting to rise again, consumer
Speaker 4: confidence is down, credit card debt is going up. The
Speaker 4: tariffs have terrified our allies, and taxes are being felt
Speaker 4: on the American people and middle class families. His only
Speaker 4: legislative success, the Big Beautiful Bill, is anything, but it's
Speaker 4: a big beautiful betrayal. And we're seeing all of these
Speaker 4: authoritarian tendencies as a response to that weakness. And the
Speaker 4: more you see caps in his true social and his tweets,
Speaker 4: the more. That just underscores the fact that he's flailing.
Speaker 4: That's why he's trying to rig this election. That's why
Speaker 4: we're having this conversation. That's what PROB fifty is all about.
Speaker 4: Pushing back in a meaningful and substantive way. But one
Speaker 4: cannot underestimate the lengths to which he will go to
Speaker 4: not just rig the midterms, but the impacts if he's successful,
Speaker 4: well beyond that. And I really appreciate it, Beto, Elizabeth
Speaker 4: Warrens that are Warren to others really highlighting that, Goarsman
Speaker 4: Garcia that this is not just about twenty twenty five,
Speaker 4: impacts on twenty twenty six and twenty twenty eight and
Speaker 4: beyond the consequences of this initiative to say at the
Speaker 4: tone and tenor into twenty twenty six, to defecto end
Speaker 4: the Trump Prentice presidency next year's midterms. Whereas Tommy said
Speaker 4: in the outset, Donald Trump will no longer be able
Speaker 4: to sign any bill because we'll finally have a check
Speaker 4: on his power.
Speaker 15: You know, living in California is something that I have
Speaker 15: a great deal of pride about. We are the fourth
Speaker 15: largest economy in the world. Of California was a country.
Speaker 15: We are a giver state. We give eighty billion dollars
Speaker 15: plus more to the federal government than we take. By contrast,
Speaker 15: Texas takes about seventy five billion dollars more than it gives.
Speaker 15: You go through every stat and entrepreneurship companies, California is
Speaker 15: leading the way.
Speaker 3: Is that mean?
Speaker 15: But it's constantly under attack by Trump and lots of
Speaker 15: people in red states who, let's face it, I know
Speaker 15: how Donald Trump likes to falsely say that the United
Speaker 15: States subsidizes Canada, which is not accurate and completely false.
Speaker 15: But let's face it, a lot of these red states
Speaker 15: are failing and but for California kind of subsidizing the country.
Speaker 15: Yet they then come and attack us here in California.
Speaker 5: I don't like that.
Speaker 16: Gov.
Speaker 4: I'm with you, man, it's the California derangement syndrome. And
Speaker 4: with respect to our friend Belle O'Rourke, you're exactly right.
Speaker 4: Seventy one point one billion dollar taker state, California eighty
Speaker 4: three point one billion dollar donor state, meaning we provide
Speaker 4: eighty three plus billion dollars more in revenue to the
Speaker 4: federal government than we receive back. And that is the case.
Speaker 4: Vast majority of blue states. But we also have to
Speaker 4: state the facts. I live in California. You live here.
Speaker 4: Size of twenty one state populations combined, the fourth largest
Speaker 4: economy from a GDP in the world. More scientists, engineers,
Speaker 4: more researchers, more Nobel laureates than any state in the nation.
Speaker 4: A system of education that's a conveyor belt for talent,
Speaker 4: the UCCSUS our community college system, pushing out the boundaries
Speaker 4: of discovery, more venture, your capital, and we dominate in
Speaker 4: the next big global economy. Thirty two of the top
Speaker 4: fifty AI companies all here in the state of California.
Speaker 4: So our state of mind is about not just imagination,
Speaker 4: but it's innovation. It's dreaming and doing and it's not
Speaker 4: lost on me and it shouldn't be lost on anybody.
Speaker 4: That part of our secret sauce is the fact that
Speaker 4: we are able to get the best in the brightest
Speaker 4: from around the globe. First round draft choices or a
Speaker 4: majority minority state that our best doesn't tolerate that diversity.
Speaker 3: We celebrate that diversity. All of that's on.
Speaker 4: The line in terms of the assaults of Trump and
Speaker 4: trump Ism and going after DEI, ESG CRT, anything with
Speaker 4: three letters. This guy seems to be assaulting, and so
Speaker 4: what Proposition fifty represents is an opportunity to check his power.
Speaker 4: It's about checks and balances, it's about the rule of law,
Speaker 4: it's about coequal branches of government. And that's why I'm
Speaker 4: so grateful to you and so many others that are
Speaker 4: tuning in so that we can tune up an understanding
Speaker 4: of what's at stake with this initiative.
Speaker 15: Let's talk about this event today before we go National
Speaker 15: voter registration Day, so it has an added layer of significance.
Speaker 15: The website is yes on fiftylive dot com. Everybody go there.
Speaker 15: I'm going to make a donation after this at yes
Speaker 15: on fiftylive dot com. But you bringing together all of
Speaker 15: these people here in new media, bringing members of Congress
Speaker 15: and senators and leaders together, rallying together to support our
Speaker 15: democracy and to support this existential threat. How big of
Speaker 15: a deal is this event today, Governor?
Speaker 3: I think it's huge.
Speaker 4: Because you guys have done one thing that I think
Speaker 4: we all need. I need, I mean I imagine you
Speaker 4: might need. And that's some optimism, some hope, you know.
Speaker 4: I think that we show up for each other. We're
Speaker 4: showing up for a cause greater than ourselves. As Beto
Speaker 4: was saying, two hundred and forty nine years of these
Speaker 4: enduring principles and values, the best of Roman Republican Greek democracy,
Speaker 4: about to say, celebrate the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary
Speaker 4: of our founding fathers. It's all on the line, it's
Speaker 4: all at stake, and I think for me to see
Speaker 4: everybody show up like this, that's incredible, gives me a
Speaker 4: sense of optimism and hopefulness. And what I think it
Speaker 4: also represents from a very organized perspective, is that we're
Speaker 4: not just engaging platform thinking. We're also engaging platform doing that.
Speaker 4: We're actually manifesting something here. We have something to be four,
Speaker 4: we have work to do, we have agency. And what
Speaker 4: I think this whole engagement tonight represents is the power
Speaker 4: of the people in a democracy. Brand I said it best.
Speaker 4: The most important office is office of citizen active, not
Speaker 4: inerds citizenship, and it's people making contributions three five ten dollars,
Speaker 4: making contributions by going out there and volunteering. That will
Speaker 4: be the story that will define not just the success
Speaker 4: of Prop fifty, but the story that I think will
Speaker 4: define this moment in the history books as we move
Speaker 4: into the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary.
Speaker 15: Governor, thank you for what you're doing. Great conversation. I
Speaker 15: echo what everyone else said about you, Brian Tyler Cohen.
Speaker 15: He gave me that very nice intro. But you're the
Speaker 15: og in YouTube and you've paved the way for a
Speaker 15: lot of people like us. And thank you for putting
Speaker 15: this event together, Brian.
Speaker 5: Governor.
Speaker 3: Thanks for fighting for us.
Speaker 15: You give us all hope to see the governor the
Speaker 15: largest state in the United States, pushing back, fighting for democracy.
Speaker 15: Thanks for everything you're doing.
Speaker 5: Governor.
Speaker 3: Appreciate you, brother, Thank you guys.
Speaker 2: Well, thank you both.
Speaker 1: And look, this is again to echo what Ben and
Speaker 1: the Governor were saying. This is what it looks like
Speaker 1: when you actually put words behind action. For so long,
Speaker 1: Democrats have been begging for not just strongly worded letters,
Speaker 1: but for actual, real action, for actual push to what
Speaker 1: we're saying. And that's what we're seeing right here in California.
Speaker 1: But that's just half the battle. This thing is going
Speaker 1: to be a referendum on the ballot. But California is
Speaker 1: a huge state and it's going to real getting the
Speaker 1: word out to so many people and Republicans are already
Speaker 1: doing it. The day that this thing was announced, we
Speaker 1: had Republican operatives sending mailers out to every single address
Speaker 1: in the state. I know that if you live in California,
Speaker 1: you've seen them. You've gotten those mailers in your mailbox
Speaker 1: saying to vote no.
Speaker 2: We have to push back.
Speaker 1: This is our way to protect not just the future
Speaker 1: of the Democratic Party, but the future of democracy itself,
Speaker 1: and that relies on being able to reach all of
Speaker 1: those people who aren't paying attention to politics on a
Speaker 1: daily basis, which, to be honest, sounds good for everybody's
Speaker 1: mental health, but the reality is that it's going to
Speaker 1: take a lot of a lot of push from all
Speaker 1: of us who are paying attention to make sure that
Speaker 1: people know what's going on. So we are getting very
Speaker 1: close to our two hundred thousand dollars mark, which is
Speaker 1: a huge milestone. But please, if you haven't yet donated,
Speaker 1: go to yes on fifty live dot com. Okay, I'm
Speaker 1: so excited to be able to introduce our two next guests.
Speaker 1: We have Joe Carducci and Senator Alex Pardia. Alex Badia,
Speaker 1: I'm sure you've heard Jojo from jurors. She's worked so
Speaker 1: hard to make herself a household. I'm also very proud
Speaker 1: to be from the same home state as her, the
Speaker 1: state of New Jersey, where it should be known that
Speaker 1: we have the best pizza in the country. And Senator Padilla,
Speaker 1: us senator from right here in my new home state
Speaker 1: of California. This is the senator who made a name
Speaker 1: for himself this year by putting his body on the
Speaker 1: line when he was arrested by the Trump administration for
Speaker 1: daring speak out. And that's exactly the kind of forward
Speaker 1: leaning posture that we want to see from our elected officials.
Speaker 2: So I'll let you guys take it from here.
Speaker 17: Well, first of all, thank you, Brian. I did not
Speaker 17: know that you were from the Garden State, the greatest
Speaker 17: state in the country. No offense, I'm just kidding. I'm
Speaker 17: here from New Jersey participating in this event for Prop
Speaker 17: fifty in California because I understand that the stakes of
Speaker 17: this moment are much greater than the best state on
Speaker 17: the planet, which is of course New Jersey. Igin no offense,
Speaker 17: but Senator Padilla, it is wonderful to see you again
Speaker 17: under slightly better circumstances than the last time we spoke,
Speaker 17: But I just wanted, yeah, I'm happy to see your face.
Speaker 17: I feel like we bonded a little bit in a
Speaker 17: in a in a unique way through some tragedy that
Speaker 17: you know happened last week. But I wanted to just
Speaker 17: start with something that is important to me, a thread
Speaker 17: that ties us together, which is what we are, the
Speaker 17: children of immigrants. And the governor just said, in this
Speaker 17: country we celebrate diversity. Your parents, my dad, they believed
Speaker 17: in the American dream. They worked toward that end, they
Speaker 17: participated in achieving that. Donald Trump and Maga Republicans they
Speaker 17: don't appreciate that that diversity. They, on the on the
Speaker 17: other hand, quite the contrary, they're trying to attack it.
Speaker 17: And so I want to start there, if you might,
Speaker 17: with what's at stake right now, for the American dream,
Speaker 17: for for people like your parents, people like my dad.
Speaker 11: Sure, no, Jase, You're great to be back with you.
Speaker 11: And I mean, I think a couple of things. Why
Speaker 11: does Donald Trump have it in for California so badly?
Speaker 11: It's because California is like the opposite of his vision.
Speaker 11: The California is not the most popular state in the nation,
Speaker 11: the most diverse state in the nation, home to more
Speaker 11: immigrants than any state in the nation. And as you've
Speaker 11: been hearing, California has grown to become the fourth largest
Speaker 11: economy in the world. And that's not a coincidence. That
Speaker 11: doesn't just that doesn't happen despite the immigrant population. It's
Speaker 11: because of the immigrant population, the contributions of so many
Speaker 11: immigrants as workers, of course, but also as consumers and
Speaker 11: as entrepreneurs. But because of and there's a lot to
Speaker 11: say about Donald Trump here, but you know, California is
Speaker 11: the embodiment of what the future of the country is
Speaker 11: increasingly diverse, and we should be increasingly inclusive. We want
Speaker 11: to embrace the economic and cultural impact of it. But
Speaker 11: what does Donald Trump do? He attacks California. This mass
Speaker 11: deportation agenda that he has started his administration with is
Speaker 11: centered not just in California but my hometown of Los Angeles.
Speaker 11: So imagine how offended I feel as a proud son
Speaker 11: of immigrants when look any of my dad who worked
Speaker 11: for forty years as a short order cook.
Speaker 5: My mom worked for.
Speaker 11: Forty years cleaning houses so that my brother and my
Speaker 11: sister and I can get a good education.
Speaker 5: That was it.
Speaker 11: And achieve the American dream. And that's the same story
Speaker 11: of millions of immigrants throughout California and throughout the country,
Speaker 11: and Trump and Republicans just can't handle it. So instead
Speaker 11: of trying to build on that success and that strength,
Speaker 11: they try to demonize it and attack it. So it's
Speaker 11: one of the many arguments why we need to support
Speaker 11: Proposition fifty because Prop fifty has been the most powerful
Speaker 11: tool presented to us to rein in this out of
Speaker 11: control administration. They want to steal next November's election by
Speaker 11: rigging it before it even starts. But California is going
Speaker 11: to step up and push back by approving Prop fifty
Speaker 11: this November.
Speaker 17: I appreciate the fight coming from California very very much.
Speaker 17: This is obviously the moment to be meeting, and the
Speaker 17: governor and all of your leadership are meeting this moment extraordinarily,
Speaker 17: and so I want to speak to your point about
Speaker 17: what Republicans are doing and ask you why are they
Speaker 17: trying to cheat ahead of the midterms in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 17: I mean, what do they know?
Speaker 11: Look my point of view, both as a Californian and
Speaker 11: as a member of the Senate, here to me It's
Speaker 11: pretty obvious. You know, under normal circumstances, a party in
Speaker 11: power would be proud of their legislative accomplishments, and they'd
Speaker 11: run on their record and the midterms to try to
Speaker 11: stay in power. That's not what's happening here. They know
Speaker 11: how not just unpopular, but damaging their record has been right,
Speaker 11: this destruction of confidence in the judiciary, the federal government
Speaker 11: as we know it. There cuts to healthcare, their cuts
Speaker 11: the nutrition assistance programs, their tax breaks for billionaires, on.
Speaker 3: And on and on.
Speaker 11: The only hope they have to hold onto power next
Speaker 11: year is to rig the election before it even starts,
Speaker 11: So before I even get to redistricting, you know, whether
Speaker 11: it's legislation they've introduced or the executive orders to make
Speaker 11: it harder for eligible Americans to register to vote, to
Speaker 11: stay registered to vote, or to actually cast your ballot.
Speaker 11: That's just part of it. The Department of Justice, and
Speaker 11: I'm a member of the Judiciary. I've seen it up
Speaker 11: close and personal. They're politicizing the Department of Justice now,
Speaker 11: just like they did in the first Trump term, trying
Speaker 11: to obtain all the personal information of voters in select
Speaker 11: states to try to tee up the purging of voter rules,
Speaker 11: and on top of that this redistricting push. I mean,
Speaker 11: I don't know about you, but when I first saw
Speaker 11: the news report of Trump calling Governor Abbott in Texas
Speaker 11: saying five more Republican seats, it sounded a lot like
Speaker 11: when Donald Trump called this Secretary of State in Georgia
Speaker 11: in twenty twenty, when he said, find me eleven thousand
Speaker 11: more votes. They'll do anything to cling to power. That's
Speaker 11: what this is. And so as I try to sum
Speaker 11: it up to folks when I'm walking around, you know,
Speaker 11: if you care about reining in this administration that has overreached,
Speaker 11: violated through process and the constitution with their mass deportation agenda,
Speaker 11: If you care about the rising cost of groceries and
Speaker 11: housing and health care and energy and so much more,
Speaker 11: and you want to do something about it, you got
Speaker 11: to support Prop fifty. If you care about the rule
Speaker 11: of law and you know, defending the principles of our constitution,
Speaker 11: you have to support Prop fifty. It's the biggest check,
Speaker 11: it's the strongest guard rails against this out of control administration.
Speaker 17: Yeah, I mean, you mentioned redistricting, and obviously this is
Speaker 17: what you know. Prop fifty is about. But Republicans will say, oh,
Speaker 17: this is the Democrats cheating, et cetera, et cetera. Right,
Speaker 17: this is not at all with the Democrats wanted. This
Speaker 17: was triggered by what they did in Texas. The Democrats
Speaker 17: have been the ones advocating for fair maps. Can you
Speaker 17: talk to that And what would you say to a
Speaker 17: Republican who says, oh, no, this is the Democrats cheating,
Speaker 17: or people in the state of California who think I
Speaker 17: can't vote yes on this because this isn't fair.
Speaker 11: Yeah, So be absolutely crystal clear on this. The only
Speaker 11: reason we are moving on Proposition fifty is in response
Speaker 11: to the abuse of power in Texas. You know, again
Speaker 11: at the behest of Donald Trump. And by the way,
Speaker 11: whether California would have responded to this or not, Republicans
Speaker 11: were going to stop in Texas. They saw five potential
Speaker 11: seats to pick up in Texas. But as we've seen
Speaker 11: in recent days and weeks, they're also looking to redistricts
Speaker 11: and are redistricting in Missouri and in Indiana and in Ohio.
Speaker 11: They're going to stop nowhere in their desperate efforts to
Speaker 11: cling to power. What California did is sight at the
Speaker 11: very beginning, they're going into Texas to try to rig
Speaker 11: the system. As much as we support independent redistricting and
Speaker 11: all that stuff, the stakes are simply too high. The
Speaker 11: threat of this administration and its impact, the devastating impact
Speaker 11: on working fountains is too high. We can't sit idly
Speaker 11: by and just watch it happen. We have to respond,
Speaker 11: We have to fight back. And so yes, it took
Speaker 11: a lot, not just for the California Legislature, but Governor
Speaker 11: Knew some of the California and Congressional delegation to support
Speaker 11: this new MEP and take it to the voters, for
Speaker 11: the voters to decide whether we push back on Trump
Speaker 11: with Proposition fifty. The early polls are good, but as
Speaker 11: we said earlier, there's a lot of money that doesn't
Speaker 11: like what's happening, and there's going to be no less
Speaker 11: than one hundred and fifty million dollars, maybe two hundred
Speaker 11: million dollars against Proposition fifty, including Speaker Mike Johnson's pack
Speaker 11: money coming into California to try to defeat Proposition fifty.
Speaker 11: That's what we're up again. So let me take this
Speaker 11: opportunity for anybody tuning in however you can support. If
Speaker 11: you can't support, we need your support because we're up
Speaker 11: against a lot of big money. Who knows that California's
Speaker 11: move here is the big check against the Trump agenda.
Speaker 11: So we need your help volunteerism and activism on the
Speaker 11: ground of financial contribution if you can.
Speaker 1: With no further ado, I know that a lot of
Speaker 1: folks are very excited, So I'm going to introduce our
Speaker 1: next guest here.
Speaker 2: We've got Tim Fullerton. Tim helped start.
Speaker 1: This show, I should note first and foremost, so a
Speaker 1: big shout out to Tim. He also had a practice session,
Speaker 1: we can say, in launching White Dudes for Harris help
Speaker 1: that gain prominence, and he served many roles in the
Speaker 1: Obama administration. And importantly he started the find Out podcast,
Speaker 1: which I'm a huge fan of. And we need more
Speaker 1: folks in independent media. So I'm grateful that Tim and
Speaker 1: his co hosts have jumped into this space. And now
Speaker 1: we've got members of the West Wing cast, Deuleat Hill
Speaker 1: and Martin Sheen.
Speaker 2: I know that for so.
Speaker 1: Many people watching right now, you both are the platonic
Speaker 1: ideal of what politics can be. And most importantly, thank
Speaker 1: you for staying engaged and involved, because it would be
Speaker 1: really easy to just you know, show up on set,
Speaker 1: do your thing, make a great show, and kind of
Speaker 1: step back and fall back into, you know, just having
Speaker 1: been an actor. But the fact is that you're using
Speaker 1: your voices now for you know, to stay engaged in
Speaker 1: this political process, and so you know, on behalf of
Speaker 1: myself and everybody watching, thank you so much for doing
Speaker 1: that and looking forward to the conversation here all right.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, it's my pleasure to be here.
Speaker 18: I think it's important for all of us to actively
Speaker 18: stay involved in any way that we can, because when
Speaker 18: we take our eye off the ball, we take our
Speaker 18: eye off the prize, then you see what has what
Speaker 18: can happen, and it can happen swiftly. You know, when
Speaker 18: I saw the results of the election last year, I
Speaker 18: knew that there would be challenges. I knew that they
Speaker 18: would be an assault on our liberties, but I could
Speaker 18: not fathom what I'm seeing now. It really breaks my
Speaker 18: heart when I see our loss of humanity. I see
Speaker 18: how we are going to the extremes and we are
Speaker 18: find are lacking the ability to find common ground. I mean,
Speaker 18: we are one year in and these are trying times.
Speaker 18: And only way that I feel that we can even
Speaker 18: have some type of backstop to this onslaught that is
Speaker 18: happening is by winning in the mid terms. And I
Speaker 18: truly believe, I'll say to myself often I say to others,
Speaker 18: that democracy works when we, the people work it.
Speaker 5: That's how my democracy stays alive.
Speaker 18: And the only way that we can the best way
Speaker 18: for us to fight this battle for the soul of
Speaker 18: our nation, for the character of who.
Speaker 14: We are, is at the ballot box. That's what we
Speaker 14: have to do.
Speaker 18: And I truly believe that all things being equal, if
Speaker 18: we were given the opportunity to freely vote the way
Speaker 18: we have, then it would be a no brainer that
Speaker 18: the Democrats would win. There would be balance put back
Speaker 18: into the system, and that.
Speaker 5: Would be that.
Speaker 18: But I do believe that also that these extremist politicians
Speaker 18: are very aware that they cannot win the battle on
Speaker 18: their merits.
Speaker 14: They cannot win reelection on their merits.
Speaker 18: So the same people who a few years ago were
Speaker 18: crying about a stolen election and supported people who really
Speaker 18: acted in a way that was not supportive of our democracy,
Speaker 18: are now actually trying to steal an election. They're not
Speaker 18: even doing it in the shadows. They're being very overt
Speaker 18: about what they are doing, But what really, I guess
Speaker 18: affects me is that they're taking.
Speaker 5: Away the voice of the people.
Speaker 18: It's one thing if you were going to do this
Speaker 18: redishising plan and you were going to bring it to
Speaker 18: the citizens, like bring it to the citizens, that's how
Speaker 18: democracy works.
Speaker 14: Lets people talk about it.
Speaker 18: If you were doing it that way and then the
Speaker 18: people voted for that, I would have nothing to say.
Speaker 18: But the fact that they're doing it in the dark
Speaker 18: rooms of the legislatures across the country, at least in
Speaker 18: Texas now empty to do it in other places, that
Speaker 18: is where I think is a line too far. And
Speaker 18: I appreciate what the governor of California is doing, what
Speaker 18: the legislature here is doing, by giving us the power
Speaker 18: to have our voice be heard, by giving us a
Speaker 18: way to be able to stand up for ourselves, and
Speaker 18: by giving us a pathway to be able to keep
Speaker 18: our democracy alive. And that's the main reason why I'm here,
Speaker 18: is to play my part. I always say, if I
Speaker 18: can get a billion people to move a billion stones,
Speaker 18: then we can move a mountain. And I think in
Speaker 18: this situation, if we can get people to get involved,
Speaker 18: to get engaged, to support Yes on fifty here in California,
Speaker 18: and to use their voice across the nation. I believe
Speaker 18: the Democrats will get back the House, and at that
Speaker 18: point we can put some type of balance back into
Speaker 18: the system, because we've seen what happens when there is imbalance,
Speaker 18: and right now it is all out of whack and
Speaker 18: there's too much extremism happening in our politics right now.
Speaker 14: So that's why I'm here and I'm always down to
Speaker 14: support in any way I can.
Speaker 16: Well, thank you, Julia, and it's all of that was
Speaker 16: really well said, and I think it's really important thing
Speaker 16: that you mentioned, which is, you know, Texas did this
Speaker 16: behind closed doors. You know, the Trump administration called Governor
Speaker 16: Abbott's team and said I need you to I need
Speaker 16: you to find five seats. He actually said it, I
Speaker 16: need you to find five seats for me, and then
Speaker 16: they did this unilaterally. And I think that that's why
Speaker 16: it's great that we're doing it and the GWAG Governor
Speaker 16: Newsom's doing it is the way to do it with
Speaker 16: a people powered movement, And so I want to turn
Speaker 16: so I think everybody on this call probably would prefer
Speaker 16: our next guest to actually be the president of the
Speaker 16: United States. At this moment, we have Martin Sheen, who
Speaker 16: has I think played a president twice and has been
Speaker 16: a chief of staff once and actually has been I believe,
Speaker 16: arrested more times than Donald Trump, but for very good
Speaker 16: reasons standing up for what's right. So Margie, thank you.
Speaker 16: It is an honor to speak to you. It would
Speaker 16: love to hear from you about why why voting yes
Speaker 16: on Prop fifty is so important?
Speaker 3: Well, thank you.
Speaker 10: Can you hear me?
Speaker 13: Yes?
Speaker 3: We can?
Speaker 10: All right? Good? Yeah, Renee left the room. My engineer
Speaker 10: here is my daughter who runs this machine. Frankly, I
Speaker 10: don't own a computer and I don't even know how
Speaker 10: to turn it on if I did have one, so
Speaker 10: I'm counting on my family. Here is Delay. Well know,
Speaker 10: he's good to see you again. Delay. Thank you for
Speaker 10: including me in this effort. You know, I've been involved
Speaker 10: in supporting liberal politics, democratic politics, specifically with the possible
Speaker 10: exception of John Lindsay when he ran from mayor in
Speaker 10: nineteen sixty five in New York, I supported him, But
Speaker 10: also that same year I supported Bobby Kennedy in his
Speaker 10: race for the US Senate, and so this is not
Speaker 10: you know, unusual for me to be involved, and not
Speaker 10: just in democratic politics, but in peace and social justice
Speaker 10: issues because I can't really separate them. And what the
Speaker 10: our governor here in California so bravely did was to
Speaker 10: stand up to the landslide of effort and lies that
Speaker 10: are that are pulling the the Constitution and the Bill
Speaker 10: of Rights down the tubes. And so our effort is
Speaker 10: to put a stop to it and to retrieve as
Speaker 10: much as we possibly can. I've never seen it this
Speaker 10: bad in my life, frankly. And you know, we've been
Speaker 10: watching the opposition to Proposition fifty on every local channel
Speaker 10: we have, and some of the uh, the streamers as
Speaker 10: well adds against us voting to de vote no on
Speaker 10: fifty and there their reasoning is that it's undemocratic to
Speaker 10: you know, jurymander here and how dare we do this?
Speaker 10: Why we we we should stand up as patriotic Americans
Speaker 10: and stop this. There's not a mention of Texas or
Speaker 10: the possibility of Missouri or Ohio, got forbid my home
Speaker 10: state or Indiana, and so, uh, we have to, you know,
Speaker 10: we have to.
Speaker 3: We can't always.
Speaker 10: Choose our fights very often were we are called to
Speaker 10: fight in foreign lands on with with with with with
Speaker 10: unfamiliar ground, and this is one of those times. We've
Speaker 10: never been in this situation before. I've watched this administratives,
Speaker 10: watching Caspital being drilled by our good senator from UH,
Speaker 10: you know, UH California today and and I don't know
Speaker 10: if any of you saw the exchange between the two
Speaker 10: of them and made the national news, but that level
Speaker 10: of ahead of the FBI or any of the other
Speaker 10: agencies is astonishing to me. There is no possible way
Speaker 10: that any of these people at the head of any
Speaker 10: of the UH, the CAB and its ministries that we
Speaker 10: have right now would ever make it in any other administration.
Speaker 10: Mac Donald Trump. And when they look at each other
Speaker 10: across the room around in the cabinet room, and they
Speaker 10: look at each other, they don't see anyone on the
Speaker 10: other side back and forth that is better than they are,
Speaker 10: is more heroic, has more courage. They in a real sense,
Speaker 10: I suspect they despise each other because there isn't anyone
Speaker 10: on the other side that is better than they are.
Speaker 10: And they are looking at the worst reflection of themselves,
Speaker 10: and they are reflecting the policy that we're seeing that
Speaker 10: they refer to about the scandalous mask bandits as draving
Speaker 10: people of our streets in public and disappearing people. And
Speaker 10: you know, so often when people are in the and
Speaker 10: in normal times, if you want to call it normal,
Speaker 10: when people were deported, they usually went back to the
Speaker 10: country they came from. Now they're being sent basically, they're
Speaker 10: being punished because very often they're being sent to countries
Speaker 10: that have you know, they're foreign to them, they don't
Speaker 10: have the same language, the same culture, and they are
Speaker 10: thousands and thousands of miles away from their two homes.
Speaker 10: And this has become normal. We are what we're seeing.
Speaker 10: We saw that, you know, the when the Marines marched
Speaker 10: through our downtown park, it was literally a walk in
Speaker 10: the park. There was no there was no reason for
Speaker 10: them to be there. It is a All that we're
Speaker 10: seeing is a reflection of a strong man trying to
Speaker 10: get a grip and it's slipping out of his hands.
Speaker 10: Chicago stood up and said, no, please, don't come here,
Speaker 10: and we're going to give you every reason why we
Speaker 10: don't need you. We've got good law enforcement, we've got
Speaker 10: good sanitation here, we've got good health care. You're not
Speaker 10: needed here, Please stay home, look after your families and
Speaker 10: your states. And so we don't have any choice but
Speaker 10: to go in the direction that we're being called by
Speaker 10: Governor Newsom. And I dare say, and maybe I shouldn't
Speaker 10: say this of him, but I think this move was
Speaker 10: his declaration for the White House. I think he's going
Speaker 10: to run, and more power to him, and he will
Speaker 10: have this to his credit. So I'm urging people to
Speaker 10: deal with what we have, not with what we wish
Speaker 10: we had or what we had in the past, but
Speaker 10: what we have now, which is this opportunity to stop
Speaker 10: this basic thievery. The you know, Thomas Paine said, the
Speaker 10: rights of man are not given by the gracious hand
Speaker 10: of any state, but must be protected therein. And this
Speaker 10: is where we have to rise and embrace our constitution
Speaker 10: and bring us all together with what really is at stake.
Speaker 10: We're facing an out of control, chaotic uh, a madman
Speaker 10: who wakes up every day and thinks of a different
Speaker 10: level of chaos. And his his uh UH, his cabinet members,
Speaker 10: all the people and in his administration pick up the
Speaker 10: lot and they carry it out, and they are all
Speaker 10: a reflection of him. But I think we're better than that,
Speaker 10: and I think we can we can build a better
Speaker 10: future and can end the chaos and end the despair
Speaker 10: and the uh, the feelings of that we that we
Speaker 10: we don't have any power left. Look at Chicago just
Speaker 10: this week, the mad Man turned around and said, well,
Speaker 10: I guess I'm not welcome there. Let's find so Memphis. Oh, yes,
Speaker 10: of course Memphis. I can do well there. Well, let's
Speaker 10: see what happens. But what Governor Newsom has done here
Speaker 10: in California has struck a chord. It has lit a
Speaker 10: candle in this darkness. And I pray and hope that
Speaker 10: people what's possible and that we can turn this thing around.
Speaker 10: And this is one very important issue for the whole
Speaker 10: country to look at and to follow. Yes on fifty
Speaker 10: please God, Yes.
Speaker 5: Well well said.
Speaker 16: And for those of you who haven't donated yet, which
Speaker 16: I don't know how you could not donate after listening
Speaker 16: to that, please go to yeson fifty live dot com.
Speaker 16: Push us over the three hundred thousand mark. All of
Speaker 16: this money is is coming from individuals giving five, ten,
Speaker 16: fifteen to twenty dollars, and we are fighting against people
Speaker 16: who are writing quarter million dollar checks, million dollar checks.
Speaker 16: We are going to win this, and I think before
Speaker 16: we go, I just want to ask one more question
Speaker 16: for both both of you. Is you gave us a
Speaker 16: little bit of hope there. And you know, I think
Speaker 16: the West Wing Show was something that I watched in
Speaker 16: high school and then ended up going into politics. Who
Speaker 16: worked in the Obama administration and things like that leave
Speaker 16: us with something. You know, Martin, you left us something.
Speaker 3: Really hopeful and powerful.
Speaker 2: Delay.
Speaker 16: I'm going to give it to you the last bit
Speaker 16: because I know we got a bounce because we've got Congressman,
Speaker 16: Congressman Rasking and Congressman and Crockett on who by the way,
Speaker 16: if you if we win this ballot initiative, they're going
Speaker 16: to be the ones subpoena and they're the ones that they're
Speaker 16: going to be asking questions of the Trump administration. So, Doulee,
Speaker 16: I'm going to give you the last word.
Speaker 18: I'll say this, the power is in our hands. You know,
Speaker 18: there's nothing that if a bunch of people get together,
Speaker 18: there's nothing that we cannot overcome. I said before a
Speaker 18: billion people to move a billion stones, then we can
Speaker 18: move a mountain. And even in these dark times when
Speaker 18: the cloud is hovering above the clouds of extremism, the
Speaker 18: clouds of hate, the clouds of division. Just beyond those
Speaker 18: storm clouds, the sun is always shining. So if we
Speaker 18: could just keep preacient, keep putting one foot in front
Speaker 18: of the other, keep our eyes on the prize, I know
Speaker 18: that we will be victorious. America always has, America will
Speaker 18: now today, and America always will and now tomorrow, as
Speaker 18: long as we stay engaged.
Speaker 5: So let's vote.
Speaker 10: I would only yeah, I would only add, just very simply,
Speaker 10: Fear is useless, faith is necessary. Yes, on fifty.
Speaker 2: Awesome, We'll leave it there.
Speaker 5: I was trying.
Speaker 2: I was gonna say, I was trying a bit where
Speaker 2: I was standing.
Speaker 1: You can't really see it in the zoom, but I
Speaker 1: was about to say, in this building, when the president stands,
Speaker 1: nobody sits.
Speaker 2: Okay, what's next? That was awesome.
Speaker 1: My nod to you, Thank you, thank you all for
Speaker 1: the time tonight.
Speaker 2: We appreciate it. And Tim, thank you so much.
Speaker 5: Thank you very well, thank you so much, all the
Speaker 5: best of everybody.
Speaker 1: Very excited to introduce our next two. We have Olivia Juliana.
Speaker 1: I first learned of Olivia when Matt Gates tried to
Speaker 1: mock her online, and she used his mockery to raise
Speaker 1: over two million dollars for abortion rights. So what a
Speaker 1: badass move. And he's out of Congress, and so you
Speaker 1: got the last laugh. Juliana is a political activist, abortion
Speaker 1: rights advocate, and a strategist from Texas, so knows firsthand
Speaker 1: about all the bullshit that's going on right now. She
Speaker 1: was formerly the director of Politics and Government Affairs at
Speaker 1: gen Z for Change.
Speaker 2: And she's a dear friend of mine.
Speaker 1: Very happy to have you, and of course a congresswoman
Speaker 1: who needs no introduction. Very excited to be introducing Representative
Speaker 1: Jasmine Crockett. She is one of my favorite people in
Speaker 1: elected office. She is a badass, a fighter, and attorney,
Speaker 1: one of the most dynamic and interesting and engaging voices
Speaker 1: that we have on the left. Could not be more
Speaker 1: excited to listen to your conversation here.
Speaker 8: Thank you, Brian Well Congresswoman Crockett.
Speaker 19: It sure seems like everyone's got something to say about our.
Speaker 8: Home now, don't they.
Speaker 20: Yeah, forget reason though, it is a hot ass, miss,
Speaker 20: But I am so thankful for California, and not only for.
Speaker 21: The leadership, real leadership. Do we need in this moment,
Speaker 21: but also for the people.
Speaker 20: You know, this is something that is going to be
Speaker 20: people led, people driven, and ultimately the people will decide.
Speaker 20: And with everything that I've seen about the pushback that
Speaker 20: we are.
Speaker 21: Delivering to this regime that is currently in power, I
Speaker 21: am believing.
Speaker 20: That the people of California are woke enough to know
Speaker 20: that it is time to fight fire with fire. And
Speaker 20: what that means for those in the back that don't
Speaker 20: understand my language, what that means is that if Texas
Speaker 20: is going to redistrict and Jerrymander and also silence the
Speaker 20: voices of black and brown communities, that California will also
Speaker 20: make sure that they give more voice to their constituents
Speaker 20: in the form of Prop.
Speaker 21: Fifty.
Speaker 20: And so this is just in response to make sure
Speaker 20: that those bad policies that they are currently signing up
Speaker 20: for that they actually have some accountability, because that's what
Speaker 20: democracy looks like. The final thing that I'll say so
Speaker 20: that you can go on with their question is that
Speaker 20: today was very interesting. It's always interested on the.
Speaker 21: Hill or how to have missed, either way you want
Speaker 21: to look at it.
Speaker 20: But nevertheless, so we're there and we were voting on
Speaker 20: a rule for a bill, and I was like, what's
Speaker 20: taking so long? Because I was ready to go debate
Speaker 20: the next thing. I just knew it was gonna pass,
Speaker 20: they were gonna vote it, but it wasn't. It wasn't passing.
Speaker 20: And in fact, this rule was going down and there
Speaker 20: were like six Republicans they voted with the Democrats. So
Speaker 20: it was like, well, who are the six Republicans. Well,
Speaker 20: of the six, I think three or four were out
Speaker 20: of California. So we can see that even the threat
Speaker 20: of actually holding them accountable has made them start to
Speaker 20: shift how they're voting. In fact, they were able to
Speaker 20: get enough to switch over so that they could go
Speaker 20: ahead and.
Speaker 21: Pass the rule.
Speaker 20: But one of the loudest kind of upset people, Kevin Kylee.
Speaker 20: He did not change his vote because he plans to run.
Speaker 20: He knows it's going to be an uphill battle, and
Speaker 20: now he believes that he should be held accountable or
Speaker 20: how he votes.
Speaker 21: But my question is, bro, where.
Speaker 13: Have you been.
Speaker 20: You should have been voting in the interest of your
Speaker 20: constituents anyway. So I'll just leave it there right now,
Speaker 20: even without this thing going to the ballot, they.
Speaker 21: Are having an impact.
Speaker 8: Well, I'll say this. You know, behind me, I have
Speaker 8: portraits of Anne Richards and Barbara Jordan, And if you're
Speaker 8: watching and you don't know who they are, look them up.
Speaker 8: And it's because of women like this, women like you.
Speaker 8: I'm glad that you're on.
Speaker 19: My side because I was at the public redistricting hearings
Speaker 19: that were held here in Texas about these maps. I
Speaker 19: was at the one at the state Capitol, and I
Speaker 19: was at the one in Houston, and so I sat
Speaker 19: through ten hours of public testimony from Texans all over
Speaker 19: the state who sat there and begged, begged for our
Speaker 19: Republican lawmakers to have a conscience and to do the
Speaker 19: right thing. And they sat there and I'll be honest
Speaker 19: with y'all, they didn't care. They didn't care. They had
Speaker 19: made their minds up before they walked into that room.
Speaker 19: And I think that you are the most uniquely positioned
Speaker 19: person in the country to really give people insight into
Speaker 19: what the Texas legislature looks like, what Congress looks like,
Speaker 19: and what this means for the rest of the country.
Speaker 19: Because not only are you a member of Congress from
Speaker 19: Texas you had your district redistricted, but you were also
Speaker 19: a member of the Texas legislature. So what is the
Speaker 19: big picture here that people may not be understanding and
Speaker 19: why is Texas so important in this conversation.
Speaker 21: Yeah, that's a very good point.
Speaker 20: First of all, my favorite organization is the Heritage Foundation,
Speaker 20: and usually I feel like Texas becomes the crash dummy
Speaker 20: for every single bad type of legislation that they want
Speaker 20: to try out throughout the South. And so this is
Speaker 20: no different right as it's already been laid out by
Speaker 20: my colleagues that they started in Texas, but they were
Speaker 20: definitely never planning to end in Texas. And if anybody
Speaker 20: believes that there's something that California did that made them say, well,
Speaker 20: now we've got to do more, No, this was always
Speaker 20: their plan. The plan was to start in Texas, but
Speaker 20: then it was to move on to Missouri, it was
Speaker 20: to move on to Indiana. They even were trying to
Speaker 20: go after Clyburn in South Carolina. They're planning to go
Speaker 20: after Florida. They are trying to do this any and
Speaker 20: everywhere that they think they can get away with it,
Speaker 20: and so they wanted to test it out in Texas.
Speaker 21: That's number one.
Speaker 20: Number two, We literally have people that are elected to
Speaker 20: office that are supposed to represent the interests of the
Speaker 20: people that put them into office. And as we both
Speaker 20: sat through hearings, because I attended more than one hearing myself,
Speaker 20: you know, it was interesting to have Representative a Suit
Speaker 20: who was leading those field hearings and leading the redistrict
Speaker 20: saying my class made to the Texas House pretend that
Speaker 20: he had no recollection of anything.
Speaker 21: That took place in twenty twenty one.
Speaker 20: Now, listen, I've never professed to have the best memory,
Speaker 20: but I can remember, like yesterday, being on the floor
Speaker 20: arguing with the Republicans telling them that we had grown
Speaker 20: the state by ninety five percent people of color. So
Speaker 20: the idea that we got two new seats because of
Speaker 20: the growth that Texas experienced where we added over four
Speaker 20: million people over the last decade once we completed our census,
Speaker 20: and ultimately we got two new Anglo seats, that's that
Speaker 20: Republican math.
Speaker 21: That's that is that Republican math.
Speaker 20: Right, these were Anglo majority seats that they ended up creating,
Speaker 20: and they're just like, yeah, okay, it worked out. We
Speaker 20: added one hundred and eighty thousand Anglos in a decade.
Speaker 20: Each congressional seat is seven hundred and sixty six thousand people.
Speaker 20: So you tell me, in fact that it is a
Speaker 20: microcosm of what they are doing right now. You tell
Speaker 20: me how one hundred and eighty thousand people end up
Speaker 20: with two seats where they're the major majority and the
Speaker 20: seats are seven hundred and sixty six thousand people. That
Speaker 20: is what they are doing. They're not only doing Donald
Speaker 20: Trump's bidding, but it's at the expense of so many
Speaker 20: communities they've already been disenfranchised. Texas has over four million
Speaker 20: African Americans, more African Americans than any other state. We
Speaker 20: had five African Americans that had been elected to Congress.
Speaker 20: When Colin already ended up running for the Senate, he
Speaker 20: was replaced by a non African American, which is perfectly fine.
Speaker 20: We then ended up down to four African Americans. Okay,
Speaker 20: now what they're saying is we're going to cut that
Speaker 20: into two. You'll only have an opportunity to elect Al
Speaker 20: Green or whoever wins the eighteenth. And really what they're
Speaker 20: trying to do is set it up to where it's
Speaker 20: most likely me or Mark VC in the Dallas area.
Speaker 20: So you explained to me how on God's green Earth
Speaker 20: in a state in which Angloes were not growing at all.
Speaker 20: And we know that if we look at which group
Speaker 20: has the vast majority, not the vast majority, but has
Speaker 20: the plurality of representation, it's actually Latinos in the state
Speaker 20: of Sexes. Latinos have the largest demographic in the entire state.
Speaker 20: Do they have the largest demographic of opportunities to lay
Speaker 20: people to Congress?
Speaker 21: Absolutely not.
Speaker 20: In fact, we are a majority minority state, we are
Speaker 20: sixty forty. Yet somehow after these maps were done, we're
Speaker 20: looking at having less minorities being.
Speaker 21: Able to choose their representation.
Speaker 20: So I want to say that this is bigger than
Speaker 20: my state, your state. This is about us as the
Speaker 20: United States and what it is that we are fighting for.
Speaker 20: There is only one side that is willing to stand
Speaker 20: up to this regime. There is only one side that
Speaker 20: is willing to conduct investigations.
Speaker 21: There is only one.
Speaker 20: Side that is willing to hold their incompetency and their
Speaker 20: feet to the fire.
Speaker 21: There's only one side.
Speaker 20: And so while people haven't started to feel the effects
Speaker 20: of being kicked.
Speaker 21: Off their healthcare, they're about to.
Speaker 20: While people may not have fully felt the effects of
Speaker 20: the increases in their utility bills they're about to while
Speaker 20: people already know that these tariffs are already hitting and
Speaker 20: creating pretty hard to the extent that they are shutting
Speaker 20: down our small businesses, and our farm bankruptcies are up
Speaker 20: fifty eight, fifty five or fifty eight percent, don't remember
Speaker 20: which one. Already, our farmers are filing for bankruptcy. Yo, Like,
Speaker 20: we are in a crisis, and it is because the
Speaker 20: Republicans don't have a backbone. So it's time to make
Speaker 20: sure that we show them that the Democrats are ready
Speaker 20: to fight. So that means that California, we need you
Speaker 20: in this moment.
Speaker 21: We need your.
Speaker 20: Dollars, we need your time, and we absolutely need your vote.
Speaker 19: Yeah, and I'll close this out with this. In a
Speaker 19: perfect world, we don't have to do mid decade redition.
Speaker 19: In a perfect world, partisan jerrymandering is banned. But also
Speaker 19: in a perfect world, women aren't losing their ability to
Speaker 19: have children because they're going into sepsis, and children in
Speaker 19: Texas are having books banned in their schools. These are
Speaker 19: the things that would happen in a perfect world. But
Speaker 19: we don't live in a perfect world. We live in reality.
Speaker 8: And so if you're not sure if you're going on
Speaker 8: this for you in California and how this benefits you, well,
Speaker 8: it benefits a lot of people, and it benefits people
Speaker 8: like me, young people who live in Texas where this
Speaker 8: is our reality every single day. And so you have
Speaker 8: a chance and an opportunity to not just set yourself
Speaker 8: up and your future for success, but for young people
Speaker 8: like me in this state of over thirty million people
Speaker 8: who just want the chance to build our own American
Speaker 8: dream perfectly.
Speaker 1: Well, thank you both. I appreciate you being on. Olivia
Speaker 1: Representative Crockett, thank you.
Speaker 2: Both for being here.
Speaker 1: Okay, very excited to introduce our next two guests. We
Speaker 1: have a dear friend of mine, Jack Kocchirella, who is
Speaker 1: a progressive political commentator. And I know he's laughing because
Speaker 1: I'm having a lot of trouble saying his life name.
Speaker 1: Is the first time I actually ever said is his
Speaker 1: last name out loud? But in my defense, in my defense,
Speaker 1: you guys look at co C H I A R
Speaker 1: E L L A and try to and try to
Speaker 1: do that.
Speaker 22: It just means you love me.
Speaker 2: That's it I do.
Speaker 1: He is everywhere online. I am so grateful for his
Speaker 1: voice in this independent media space. He is one of
Speaker 1: the people who gets it beyond everybody else. So Jack,
Speaker 1: thank you so much for the work that you're doing
Speaker 1: on a daily basis helping make our independent media's ecosystem
Speaker 1: stronger and stronger every single day. And now we have
Speaker 1: our first gen Z Member of Congress, Congressman Maxwell Frost.
Speaker 2: Congressman.
Speaker 1: My only hope is that the next generation of Democrats,
Speaker 1: which I hope we see uh start to happen in
Speaker 1: a big way in twenty twenty six, that they look
Speaker 1: a lot like you. So thank you for being fearless,
Speaker 1: thank you for being outspoken. Thank you for being a
Speaker 1: leader not just among folks in your generation, but in
Speaker 1: the party more broadly. So go ahead, I'll leave, I'll
Speaker 1: let it. I'll let you guys take it away from here.
Speaker 22: Absolutely. Thank you, Brian, You're in inspiration to Assaul. And
Speaker 22: maybe we're breaking a little bit of news here. I
Speaker 22: think I said this in our last interview, but I
Speaker 22: am with my member of Congress. That makes me very excited.
Speaker 22: We know the facts of this case, we know the
Speaker 22: facts of what's happening right now with this administration, and
Speaker 22: we are seeing a rise in a crisis of affordability.
Speaker 22: That's a fact. There's more law breaking under this administration
Speaker 22: than ever before.
Speaker 11: We know.
Speaker 22: It's a fact that Donald Trump, Greg Abbott they want
Speaker 22: to disenfranchise black and brown voters around the country. But
Speaker 22: I want to talk about feelings real quick, Congressman, how
Speaker 22: would you feel to make this guy right here, very
Speaker 22: very very sad.
Speaker 23: How would that make you feel? Because I think that's important. Yeah,
Speaker 23: I think it is really important.
Speaker 13: People know.
Speaker 11: It makes me feel amazing.
Speaker 23: And this is actually part of the reason we need
Speaker 23: to win the majority, because I promise you that one
Speaker 23: of the first people to receive us a poena will
Speaker 23: be Stephen Miller. Tell you guy is one of the
Speaker 23: most evil people, and not just in government but in
Speaker 23: this country, and we need to hold him accountable as well.
Speaker 22: And his suits they just they don't They don't fit
Speaker 22: at all.
Speaker 3: He looks terrible.
Speaker 22: I think it's because like the fabric is repelled by him.
Speaker 22: Like there's just got to be something about Steven Miller.
Speaker 22: I also just looking for looking at him. We don't
Speaker 22: get needed, like, you know, trash him personally, but I
Speaker 22: think we can. I bet he just doesn't smell great either.
Speaker 22: But of course Republicans aren't just focused on Texas. This
Speaker 22: this fight has spread or I guess it's not a
Speaker 22: fight we're taking on the fight. What they're doing is
Speaker 22: is a little bit different, but we certainly know that
Speaker 22: it wants to spread across the country. Ronda Santis certainly
Speaker 22: someone not not new to falling in line with Donald
Speaker 22: Trump and getting embarrassed because of it.
Speaker 3: How are we going to make sure.
Speaker 22: That this is is a tone setting moment in California
Speaker 22: telling the rest of Republicans across the country, Hey, if
Speaker 22: you I don't want to say it, you're fuck around
Speaker 22: you find out well.
Speaker 23: Yeah, and for people who don't know, you know, of
Speaker 23: course they're moving to moving forward Texas, they're trying to
Speaker 23: figure out other places they can do this as well.
Speaker 23: They're moving forward with this in Florida as well, and
Speaker 23: we have pulled it across the entire state. Democrats, Republicans,
Speaker 23: independents come out when they're asked, are you in favor
Speaker 23: of the state of Florida redistricting to help Donald Trump
Speaker 23: get a majority? They say no every single time. And
Speaker 23: so part of what we're you know, part of what
Speaker 23: we're looking to do in our state is make sure
Speaker 23: that people understand what they're trying to do. And you
Speaker 23: brought up DeSantis.
Speaker 13: A lot of people don't know this.
Speaker 23: DeSantis and Trump hate each other. Donald Trump hates Ronda Santis.
Speaker 23: And what rond De Santans is trying to do is
Speaker 23: he's about to not be the governor of Florida anymore
Speaker 23: next year. He's going to be to have two years
Speaker 23: where he's not an elected official. But he really wants
Speaker 23: to run for president and he knows he can't win
Speaker 23: that Republican primary without Donald Trump's help. So he has
Speaker 23: turned into Donald Trump's lap dog that Donald Trump actually hates,
Speaker 23: and he wants to do everything he can to be
Speaker 23: in the news, to get a news cycle, to lick
Speaker 23: the Buddha Donald Trump, to try to earn some of
Speaker 23: that support so he's not completely irrelevant. And that's why
Speaker 23: we've seen all these things from redistricting, even the Everglades
Speaker 23: detention facility, the internment camp, Alligator Alcatraz, all this stuff
Speaker 23: he's doing because the dude wants to run for president.
Speaker 23: He has no juice.
Speaker 5: Nobody likes him, even.
Speaker 3: In his own party.
Speaker 11: He does not have the sauce.
Speaker 22: And you heard his voice, have you seen his boots.
Speaker 23: So this is what's going on in the state of Florida.
Speaker 23: I want to make sure people know. Jasmin brought it up.
Speaker 23: I always tell this people Project twenty twenty five. All
Speaker 23: this stuff everyone's seeing now, that's Florida twenty twenty Okay.
Speaker 23: This stuff that they're trying across this country, they've been
Speaker 23: doing in the South for a long time. They passed
Speaker 23: the Big Beautiful Bill for billionaires, the largest chansfer of
Speaker 23: weal from the working class to billionaires, the rich getting rich,
Speaker 23: of the poor getting poorer, working class getting poor as well.
Speaker 23: They know they can't win the election because people are
Speaker 23: pissed off about it. In fact, Donald Trump sent his
Speaker 23: top people to Capitol Hill to tell the Republican Party, Hey,
Speaker 23: you got to stop call it the Big Beautiful Bill
Speaker 23: Act because it's so unpopular. We got to rebrand it. Bro,
Speaker 23: you named it the Big Beautiful Bill Act. You have
Speaker 23: the word beautiful in there. The facts of the matter
Speaker 23: are so bad that people don't like it, even your
Speaker 23: own party. And now they're trying to figure out how
Speaker 23: to change it. It's so unpopular. They know they're going
Speaker 23: to lose, and so they want to cheat. They want
Speaker 23: to cheat because they don't want to lose, and that's
Speaker 23: what's going on right now.
Speaker 22: Yeah, they're terrified, and they're also terrified because they know
Speaker 22: that what we do have a bit of hope, and
Speaker 22: of course the momentum is mounting. I want to talk
Speaker 22: about not just what we'll do when we do, in fact,
Speaker 22: when the house back, but the successes that you've already had.
Speaker 22: You brought up with Steven Miller and all the rest
Speaker 22: of those goons like to call alligator Alcatraz. Of course
Speaker 22: you made a big move that I want you to
Speaker 22: talk about, and maybe we keep it open or reopen
Speaker 22: it for Steven Miller. I don't know in a couple
Speaker 22: of years, But can you talk about how we're still
Speaker 22: winning right now and what that means for when we
Speaker 22: actually do have the house back.
Speaker 23: Well, something that I always sold organizers when I was
Speaker 23: on the front lines of Black Lives Matter, and then
Speaker 23: I think about a lot now as a member of
Speaker 23: Congress that doesn't have all the seats we want, is
Speaker 23: when you don't have all the power you want, you
Speaker 23: use all the power you got.
Speaker 11: And one of the most.
Speaker 23: Important things we can do right now as elected officials
Speaker 23: is use our powers of oversight, especially as it relates
Speaker 23: to this what I would say is a campaign of
Speaker 23: terrorism on our communities, of going in and kidnapping people
Speaker 23: and human trafficking them to other countries and other states.
Speaker 23: And when this facility was open, not just myself, but
Speaker 23: many of the representatives across the state of Florida pulled
Speaker 23: up and said, we want to go in to see
Speaker 23: what's going on. And we didn't just do that. We
Speaker 23: coordinated with a lot of the people engage in lawsuits,
Speaker 23: and we were able to find out what information do
Speaker 23: you need from the inside, what can we get? We
Speaker 23: went in there and we got it. I want a
Speaker 23: second time and spoke with people who were being detained
Speaker 23: there and got even more information. Many of us did declarations,
Speaker 23: some of us served as witnesses in the federal case,
Speaker 23: and many of you saw that we got that place
Speaker 23: shut down. A judge came out a few about a
Speaker 23: week ago and reverse that it's going to be back
Speaker 23: and forth in court. But as of right now, that
Speaker 23: facility is not operating because of the work of the
Speaker 23: organizations that buy the lawsuit, but because elected officials said,
Speaker 23: you know what, we have privilege where you have positions
Speaker 23: of power. How can we use that the support organizers,
Speaker 23: How can we use it to support this lawsuit to
Speaker 23: shut the place down? The Santus is opening up another
Speaker 23: one in Northford, and guess what, I'll be pulling up
Speaker 23: to that one as well. We got to do everything
Speaker 23: we can in this moment with what we got, and
Speaker 23: I'm really proud of that what we did with Alligator Alcatraz,
Speaker 23: because I think it shows what happens when elected officials
Speaker 23: work with organizers, work with the people on the ground.
Speaker 23: We're not going to win one hundred percent of the time,
Speaker 23: but sometimes we will win, and it it feels good
Speaker 23: to win, and like it's going to feel good on
Speaker 23: election day at the end of this year when California
Speaker 23: passes this.
Speaker 11: Absolutely it is.
Speaker 22: And if you want to make sure that that happens,
Speaker 22: go to yes on fifty the number fifty live dot com. Yes,
Speaker 22: I'm fifty live and I want this segment actual you
Speaker 22: and I to have the most I don't know if
Speaker 22: that's Brian's gonna tell me those numbers later, but I'm
Speaker 22: gonna make the point of saying, this is the person
Speaker 22: that you can really upset, that is our vice president.
Speaker 11: If you go and donate.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna show it to you again. Jump scared again.
Speaker 11: This is the look at that take take a look
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Speaker 23: Yeah, face to donate the more you don't.
Speaker 22: Like him exactly, I need, I need Joe, and we'll
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Speaker 2: Awesome, thank you both.
Speaker 1: I should note that that works because we just passed
Speaker 1: four hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 2: So thank you for a good thing.
Speaker 22: Steven Miller ever did is help us to raise money.
Speaker 1: Thank you for showing his ugly ass face.
Speaker 2: We appreciate it.
Speaker 1: And thank you to everybody who's donated. For those who
Speaker 1: haven't yet donated, this is the whole ball game here.
Speaker 1: We've been begging for Democrats to fight. This is what
Speaker 1: it looks like for Democrats to fight. They've done their part.
Speaker 1: We've got this thing on the ballot on November fourth.
Speaker 1: Now it's just a matter of making sure that we
Speaker 1: can raise enough money grassroots so that people all across
Speaker 1: this state know what's on the ballot, know what the
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Speaker 1: All right, Jack and Congressman Frost, thank you so much
Speaker 1: for being here tonight.
Speaker 2: We appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Very excited to ask our next guest to come in.
Speaker 1: We've got Aby Burns Tucker, who is a graduate of
Speaker 1: Southwestern Law School, works as a social influencer. A social
Speaker 1: media influencer under the name I Am legally Hype. If
Speaker 1: you are not yet following her, you want to follow her,
Speaker 1: trust me. She's gained over half a million followers across
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Speaker 2: Cad political and legal issues.
Speaker 1: She's also a political correspondent with The Shade Room. So again,
Speaker 1: if you're not yet following, do yourself a favor and follow,
Speaker 1: and thank you for the work you're doing breaking this
Speaker 1: stuff down.
Speaker 2: I know it is.
Speaker 1: I know it is a herculean feet task that you've
Speaker 1: taken on. And she's joined by two amazing fighters for democracy.
Speaker 1: We have Representative com Lagger Dove and also Representative Aguilar.
Speaker 1: Very excited to introduce you both from California's thirty seventh
Speaker 1: and thirty third. Thank you so much for being here,
Speaker 1: for supporting independent media. Looking forward to the conversation.
Speaker 13: Yay, I'm so excited. I'm excited to be joined by
Speaker 13: you both.
Speaker 24: Okay, Representative call Blogger Dove and Representative Aguilar. We've got
Speaker 24: California and the House, okay, baby, because y'all already know
Speaker 24: when Republicans go low, baby, in California, we get ready
Speaker 24: to squabble up. Okay, And we got two representatives here
Speaker 24: that are ready to fight for you and fight we
Speaker 24: gonna do because I mean, and I'll say my homegirl
Speaker 24: Liz earlier, I'll not y'all seeing her, but it's upsetting
Speaker 24: me and my homegirl, Okay, because if you can't go
Speaker 24: to California to fight Jerry Mandarin, where can you go?
Speaker 13: Where can you go? So let's get into it. I'm excited.
Speaker 13: So my first question is this call Mucker Dove. I'll
Speaker 13: let you go.
Speaker 24: First, Republicans are out here and they're just trying to
Speaker 24: take power. Hey, they redrawn congessional maps mid decade so
Speaker 24: they can stand control.
Speaker 13: So first tell us why the hell are they doing this?
Speaker 24: Then talk about what exactly is Prop fifty, and then
Speaker 24: we're going to go into why Prop fifty is the
Speaker 24: perfect clot back for all this stuff.
Speaker 5: Going on.
Speaker 25: Back in the House. So you know, why are they
Speaker 25: doing this. They're doing this because they know they're going
Speaker 25: to lose in November. Right. First, they did this four
Speaker 25: point five trillion dollar tax cut for billionaires. They thought, ooh, okay,
Speaker 25: people were going to be asleep at the wheel and
Speaker 25: be okay with that. Then we saw eggs started costing
Speaker 25: fifteen dollars a dozen and they were hard to find
Speaker 25: in the grocery stores and gas who were going up
Speaker 25: to and then they said, well, we're going to have
Speaker 25: to pay for all these tax cuts by cutting your
Speaker 25: health care. So we had seven hundred and seventy billion
Speaker 25: dollar cut to Medicare. We've seen cuts in medicaid in
Speaker 25: the state of California, you know, shutting down and firing
Speaker 25: federal departments, firing federal workers, shutting down USAID, which is
Speaker 25: as much about foreign eight as it is about making
Speaker 25: sure that our farmers, hello, California is a farming state,
Speaker 25: are being able to get these contracts. So all of
Speaker 25: it's going to hell in a handbasket. And the American
Speaker 25: people started waking up, and they were like, oh, homie's
Speaker 25: not playing any of this because this man ran for
Speaker 25: office to make the cost of living go down, not
Speaker 25: to have its skyrocket and then have all the money
Speaker 25: go into his pockets because he's so you know, confused
Speaker 25: that all he wants to do is put more golden
Speaker 25: condolapras in the White House and then lind these arbitrary
Speaker 25: tariffs around the world so that we as consumers have
Speaker 25: to pay more. So he said, hey, who's coming up.
Speaker 25: Folks are waking up to the game. They might vote
Speaker 25: some of these Republicans out of office because these Republicans
Speaker 25: are not listening to the people.
Speaker 21: So let me follow my.
Speaker 25: Governors in these red states and see which one will
Speaker 25: do what I ask And what I'm asking for is
Speaker 25: more seats.
Speaker 21: I need more red seats. Gerrymander.
Speaker 25: They still they're regging it. And so who entered the call,
Speaker 25: Gregory Abbott, and he went into a back room, wheeled
Speaker 25: on in there and without even consulting other Republican legislators. Okay,
Speaker 25: that's how nasty they are. He we read you some maps.
Speaker 25: And in doing that, what he did was he's silencing
Speaker 25: voters in Texas and he's erasing the possibility for people
Speaker 25: of color, black folks, brown folks to be able to
Speaker 25: run for those seats. He is cutting off the pipeline
Speaker 25: at the local level because he's getting rid of seats
Speaker 25: at the federal level where folks would run. So, you know,
Speaker 25: the Bear was hibernating. Were trying to handle our own business.
Speaker 25: Get these ice agents all up out of Los Angeles,
Speaker 25: right and make sure that folks can go to their job,
Speaker 25: go to their churches, go to their hearings without being
Speaker 25: snatched and kidnapped and detained and deported. But the Bear
Speaker 25: woke up and said, I don't think so, And we
Speaker 25: came up with Prop fifty. And you know, our Democratic Caucus, Cheryl, well,
Speaker 25: I think share about you know what Prop fifty is,
Speaker 25: But what we know is transparent.
Speaker 21: We know it's temporary. We know it's fare and we
Speaker 21: know that it obeys the law.
Speaker 13: Did I set you up?
Speaker 21: Meet Petere Aguilar?
Speaker 11: You did?
Speaker 3: You did? Asked KD.
Speaker 26: I thank you so much. Good to be with you,
Speaker 26: ab And just like Sidney said, look, this is California
Speaker 26: punching back, doing everything we can, and we know we
Speaker 26: have the winning recipe because this is transparent. As Sydney said,
Speaker 26: Texas and Greg Abbott just change the system and try
Speaker 26: to steal five seats. We go to the voters and
Speaker 26: we created a map collaboratively working together to punch back.
Speaker 26: But we may it temporary. The independent commission that we
Speaker 26: like comes back in twenty thirty one. We respect the
Speaker 26: Voting Rights Act, we respect black and brown districts, and
Speaker 26: we make sure that we are meeting this moment and
Speaker 26: punching back appropriately. And so that's why we're transparent, we're fair,
Speaker 26: you know. Because of that, we're.
Speaker 5: Going to have success with proposition.
Speaker 26: Fifty yes on fifty live dot com is where people
Speaker 26: can go to help out. Five zero yes on fifty
Speaker 26: live dot com. Thank you guys so much for elevating
Speaker 26: this platform and forgiving us this space to talk about
Speaker 26: this because this is so incredibly important. We cannot let
Speaker 26: Republicans steal an election. I absolutely believe, and Sydney and
Speaker 26: I both subscribe to what Latifa said. This is about
Speaker 26: free and fair elections in twenty twenty six and in
Speaker 26: twenty twenty eight, and we won't have those if Republicans
Speaker 26: can consolidate power around these terrible policies and rig them
Speaker 26: system as they go each and every month.
Speaker 25: It's also about jobs, It's about health care. It's about
Speaker 25: having a future for your family. It's about being able
Speaker 25: to go to school and get an education.
Speaker 10: You know.
Speaker 25: It's about not being afraid that all of the colleges
Speaker 25: and universities in your town are going to dry up.
Speaker 25: It's about knowing that you can walk outside your home
Speaker 25: and not be detained and deported, not be lynched because
Speaker 25: of the color of your skin. You know, these are
Speaker 25: folks that want a national abortion band. They are doing
Speaker 25: every single thing that they can to take us back
Speaker 25: to pre Jim Crow and I am not being hyperbolic.
Speaker 25: So it is about democracy, but it is also about
Speaker 25: the money in your pocket and your ability to earn
Speaker 25: and learn and have a family. And if folks don't
Speaker 25: want you engaged if they don't want you to be
Speaker 25: able to vote, if they don't want you to have
Speaker 25: love for your country, then they have won and we
Speaker 25: cannot let that happen no way, not now, not.
Speaker 21: Ever, okay.
Speaker 13: Period.
Speaker 24: And with that the insaid, right, not only do we
Speaker 24: need y'all money, but we need y'all to pull up
Speaker 24: and actually vote. Right, So, turnout and special elections are
Speaker 24: usually pretty low, right, especially in black and minority communities.
Speaker 24: Rep Agular, I think your district is what something like
Speaker 24: sixty percent Hispanic and maybe about ten percent black? Rap
Speaker 24: pumlager Dove, I think there's something about fifty four percent
Speaker 24: black or Hispanic, about twenty percent black some right there?
Speaker 24: Why the seas right, Why do you think it's so
Speaker 24: hard for us to get these people out like or
Speaker 24: get these people out to vote? Are we not communicating properly?
Speaker 24: Is it a failure on political leadership? Are we not
Speaker 24: meeting voters where they are?
Speaker 10: Like?
Speaker 24: What do we need to do to make sure not
Speaker 24: only we get the money to make sure we get
Speaker 24: the message out, but we get these people registered to vote.
Speaker 24: Today is National Registration Day, Registered to vote and out
Speaker 24: voting so that we can redistrict and Yes on Prop
Speaker 24: fifty Regular, I start with you.
Speaker 26: Ye, National voting Registration Day. This is so incredibly important.
Speaker 26: I think the answer to your question is we have
Speaker 26: to inspire people. And just like Sidney said, we have
Speaker 26: to make this about the American public and what they benefit.
Speaker 26: When we are able to govern and when Leader Jeffrees
Speaker 26: becomes Speaker Jeffrees, We're going to be able to lower
Speaker 26: the costs of health care for people. We're going to
Speaker 26: be able to put more money in people's pockets. We're
Speaker 26: going to be able to clean up the culture of
Speaker 26: corruption that allows the President to trade in mean coins
Speaker 26: on the Supreme Court, to run around and without a
Speaker 26: code of ethics or any principles at all. I mean,
Speaker 26: those are the things that we're going to be able
Speaker 26: to do when when we have the ability to push
Speaker 26: back legislatively. But to Sidney's point, we have to make
Speaker 26: this and center this around the American public and they
Speaker 26: are getting crushed by costs, They're getting crushed in this
Speaker 26: Trump economy, and we have to connect the dots and
Speaker 26: tell them why Yes on fifty to help them. And
Speaker 26: so that's the important piece, But we have to do more.
Speaker 26: We got to knock on doors. We got to reach people.
Speaker 26: We got to tell them this is just going to
Speaker 26: be a small ballot. We just need them to put
Speaker 26: in yes and send it back in. And because in
Speaker 26: California we have an ability for mail in voting that
Speaker 26: doesn't exist around the country, and we have a strong
Speaker 26: ability to allow people to exercise their right to vote,
Speaker 26: we need to make sure that they use it, that
Speaker 26: they use their voice, and that they do it. Around
Speaker 26: the country, people are waiting in lines for hours. We're
Speaker 26: making this easy for people. If you're working two jobs,
Speaker 26: if you're picking up your kids from school late, you
Speaker 26: don't have to make that choice so that I'm going
Speaker 26: to pick up my kids late or go to vote.
Speaker 26: You can do it in the comfort of your own home.
Speaker 26: And you can You're going to have a ballot at
Speaker 26: your home in just a couple of weeks, all right.
Speaker 24: So y'all go onto the projects with me, right to
Speaker 24: get num clubs registered to votes. Yes, clean, Okay, that's
Speaker 24: what I'm talking about. Now, he's the other thing. So
Speaker 24: the message is going out from the other side, right.
Speaker 24: I didn't seen the commercials. I was at my granny
Speaker 24: house this past weekend. Actually, my granny and YO district. Aguilar,
Speaker 24: my granny out there in your district. I was at
Speaker 24: her house.
Speaker 13: All got cable at home.
Speaker 24: Okay, my granny and them got cable, so they seeing
Speaker 24: the messages right. And some Republicans are out here claiming
Speaker 24: that Prop Fitty actually hurts democracy and strips the power
Speaker 24: from voters.
Speaker 13: Tell us why they lion call moradough.
Speaker 25: Well, I hate to say it, but right now they
Speaker 25: lyon just because they're Republicans and they're scared to tell
Speaker 25: the truths under Donald Trump. It just is what it is.
Speaker 25: And so we have to bring courage back up in
Speaker 25: here into this fight. And Democrats have the courage because,
Speaker 25: like I said, we weren't trying to do this, but
Speaker 25: we have to do this. We have to do it
Speaker 25: for Texas.
Speaker 21: We have to do it for Missouri, we have to
Speaker 21: do it for Indiana.
Speaker 25: We have to do it for Florida. We have to
Speaker 25: do it for Ohio. We have to do it for California.
Speaker 25: You know they have more money. We're doing this like
Speaker 25: World aid is World Aid for democracy because we need
Speaker 25: to raise this money to get the information out a
Speaker 25: single issue ballot in November when you're already tired from
Speaker 25: twenty twenty four. That is a heavy lift. Okay, we
Speaker 25: still got the ninety two percent out there. Folks are
Speaker 25: like all these maniacs up in Congress.
Speaker 21: It's a circus.
Speaker 25: I'm a check out, but we have to check back in.
Speaker 25: Like we said, this is temporary. We're trying to go
Speaker 25: back to having an independent commission. Hell, we want one
Speaker 25: for the entire country because ain't nobody got time for
Speaker 25: none of this. But we have to step up and
Speaker 25: show up come this November to let folks know that
Speaker 25: we are not going to stand by and let folks
Speaker 25: that we don't know, to let folks who we know
Speaker 25: don't even love this country, okay, walk all over our rights,
Speaker 25: the Constitution, and our ability to make and earn a
Speaker 25: living for ourselves and for our family members. So we
Speaker 25: have to tell them this is temporary. We have to
Speaker 25: tell them that this abides by the Voting Rights Act.
Speaker 25: We have to tell them that representation is still important.
Speaker 25: We have to tell them that this is fair. We
Speaker 25: have to remind them that these maps are gonna be
Speaker 25: on the ballot.
Speaker 18: Yo.
Speaker 25: So if you want receipts, the receipts are gonna be
Speaker 25: on the ballot. We are not trying to hide. We
Speaker 25: are trying to save and we need everyone to check in.
Speaker 25: It is like when you watch a game and your
Speaker 25: folks are playing and they're on the field, and you know,
Speaker 25: it gets kind of quiet because your folks are way
Speaker 25: way behind and you want to check out, but your
Speaker 25: team cannot have you checkouts. You gotta still be raw, Ryan,
Speaker 25: You gotta buy those concessions. You gotta be rooting for
Speaker 25: your team because they are still on the field, and
Speaker 25: Democrats are still on the field, and we all have
Speaker 25: a role to play in this fight. And right now,
Speaker 25: the role that we have to play is to stay
Speaker 25: engaged and to talk to our friends and our family
Speaker 25: members and let them know what's at stake, and then
Speaker 25: make sure that everybody's asses show up either to vote
Speaker 25: at the polls or get that ballot, fill it out
Speaker 25: and send it in. We need everyone to participate because
Speaker 25: everyone's rights are at risk, everyone's coins are at risk.
Speaker 21: Everyone's future is at risk.
Speaker 25: I'm trying to be as hype as Latifa Simon yo,
Speaker 25: because I think that so Falcon Rock like the Bay,
Speaker 25: But all of these issues are at stake and will
Speaker 25: be on the ballot come November.
Speaker 13: I'm gonna do it. Don't fight. We get in these streets. Okay,
Speaker 13: we get in these streets. We're gonna get these people red. Okay,
Speaker 13: y'all better donate you. I I don't put this bas
Speaker 13: Lean on my face.
Speaker 2: Look, I'm gonna.
Speaker 25: Put my hair off, yo, I'm gonna take off my
Speaker 25: ear rings, Perie, like, what's happening.
Speaker 13: What's happening.
Speaker 26: I don't know what's going on here, but I love
Speaker 26: it all Catornia.
Speaker 13: Okay.
Speaker 24: We're from the land right and look and up from
Speaker 24: Compton originally.
Speaker 13: And now my granny living Yo district on Hu City
Speaker 13: and I e being here. We've been to get any
Speaker 13: in a B.
Speaker 26: Tell Granny i'mnna pick up her ballot.
Speaker 13: Let's okay, I'm gonna tell she's gonna be so happy.
Speaker 26: To do door to door service.
Speaker 13: Okay, you better.
Speaker 24: Come pick it up, am I Granny gonna come lit
Speaker 24: it for you.
Speaker 1: That that was I have no notes that could That
Speaker 1: could not have been more entertaining. Thank you all so much,
Speaker 1: a b thank you for for the the most entertaining
Speaker 1: panel of the night. Appreciate you guys, Representative cum Lagger,
Speaker 1: Dove and Aguilar. Thank you so much for taking the
Speaker 1: time this evening, we have our last guest here, our
Speaker 1: last two guests here. I'm very very excited, uh to
Speaker 1: introduce Lee mc gowan. You might know her as politics Girl.
Speaker 1: Could not be more excited if Look, I think that
Speaker 1: we have to call out the people who are doing
Speaker 1: this for all the right reasons, and Lee exemplifies that
Speaker 1: better than anybody else. This is somebody who truly, truly,
Speaker 1: truly believes in her mission.
Speaker 2: I'm sure you've seen her videos from the kitchen.
Speaker 1: We have a slightly elevated background right now. Lee could
Speaker 1: not be more grateful for your voice. And of course
Speaker 1: Lee is joined by our fearless leader here in California,
Speaker 1: Governor Gavin Newsom. I just want to say, and I
Speaker 1: know I've repeated this a couple of times throughout this call,
Speaker 1: but for folks who are just watching right now, we
Speaker 1: have been begging for Democrats to actually fight back, to
Speaker 1: match their words with action, and that's what we got
Speaker 1: right here. So Gavin Newsom has gotten us halfway here,
Speaker 1: and now the onus is on the rest of us
Speaker 1: to meet him halfway, to donate to this efforts that
Speaker 1: we can make sure that everybody in the state knows
Speaker 1: what the stakes are, so I will stop talking. I'll
Speaker 1: leave it up to you guys now and looking forward
Speaker 1: to the conversation.
Speaker 9: Ah, thanks so much, Brian.
Speaker 27: You are the absolute best and you are in it
Speaker 27: for all the right reasons. To my friend and listen, Governor,
Speaker 27: thank you for doing this today.
Speaker 9: Thank you for bringing the bad.
Speaker 3: You and I need a dog or something.
Speaker 4: I mean, how we You know, I didn't think we
Speaker 4: could top fourteen year old dog and then of course
Speaker 4: ab and Sydney, poor Pete.
Speaker 3: Jesus, that was next level.
Speaker 27: I know you and I both need our vasoline, you know,
Speaker 27: that's what we really need. I'll take out my earrings,
Speaker 27: You'll get your vacline because I'm here for the fight.
Speaker 9: Listen, You're here for the fight. Thank you for doing
Speaker 9: this right.
Speaker 27: I have to tell you, after watching this live today,
Speaker 27: what's this feeling I'm feeling?
Speaker 9: Is it hope? Are you feeling a little hope from
Speaker 9: watching all this today?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I mean, come on, how can you not be?
Speaker 4: I mean, I appreciate Brian just saying every single state
Speaker 4: we didn't know that would happen tonight.
Speaker 3: We didn't know anyone to.
Speaker 4: Show up, hundreds and hundreds of thousands of people have
Speaker 4: tuned in, some have been around. This is our third hour,
Speaker 4: which is extraordinary, and the fact that things were just
Speaker 4: tuned up just reinforces your point about optimism and energy.
Speaker 4: It makes people feel like they're being seen and they're
Speaker 4: being heard. It makes people feel like there's momentum and
Speaker 4: there's an opportunity here to do something as opposed to
Speaker 4: talk about doing something, to actually demonstrably have an impact
Speaker 4: before something, not just against something.
Speaker 3: And so this has been next level. I just want
Speaker 3: to thank.
Speaker 4: Everybody, Lee, you for being here at the end of
Speaker 4: this and by the way, on a personal note, thank
Speaker 4: you for getting me through the pandemic.
Speaker 3: Lee.
Speaker 4: I think everybody shaking their head. You literally got us
Speaker 4: through the pandemic, and you gave voice to so many
Speaker 4: of us that were so fearful, so isolated at that time.
Speaker 4: And so I think in the spirit that is your spirit,
Speaker 4: the spirit that defines all of the remarkable hosts we
Speaker 4: met tonight, just gratitude, thanks and yeah, optimism and hope.
Speaker 9: Yeah, wouldn't that be nice.
Speaker 27: I think we've seen the Democrats get attacked across the
Speaker 27: country for the past week and just treated like with
Speaker 27: one big brush that were all the worst people in
Speaker 27: the world, And I keep thinking.
Speaker 9: How is this the case?
Speaker 27: Like we are the party that wants you to have
Speaker 27: health care and better schooling and you know, to take
Speaker 27: care of your children and to get guns out of
Speaker 27: out of our children's faces in their classrooms. And I've
Speaker 27: watched Democrats be attacked this week, and I just this,
Speaker 27: This is such a wonderful evening because California is doing.
Speaker 27: What they're doing now is a direct response to a
Speaker 27: Republican action. And as a California voter myself, I'm going
Speaker 27: to be voting yes on fifty on November fourth, and
Speaker 27: I'm going to be contributing to Yes on fifty live
Speaker 27: dot com after we finish this. But I really hope
Speaker 27: that everybody who is listening tonight and is taking this
Speaker 27: in is as fired up as I am and feels
Speaker 27: like we see you, that you are not this horrible person,
Speaker 27: You are not the party of murder and death and
Speaker 27: destruction that you've been told that you are. That you
Speaker 27: are here for the right reasons, that we can make
Speaker 27: a difference, and we can put people that want to
Speaker 27: use government for the force of good back in office.
Speaker 9: Again.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: No, I mean, look, you heard from so many people
Speaker 4: here tonight. I mean, these guys want to put America
Speaker 4: in reverse. They want to roll back hard earned, hard
Speaker 4: fought progress and rights, and it's a pre nineteen sixties
Speaker 4: world that they're preaching. I mean, Sydney made an even
Speaker 4: more extreme point, but that's a fact on civil rights,
Speaker 4: LGBTQ rights, on women's rights, on voting rights, and they're
Speaker 4: not screwing around to your point in this last week,
Speaker 4: the rhetoric, I mean, just the rhetoric from the President
Speaker 4: of the United States. He didn't get any memo about
Speaker 4: coming together and working bridge the divide and building a
Speaker 4: bridge and organizing it, you know, just sort of the
Speaker 4: better angels. Quite the contrary. Did you hear Stephen Miller
Speaker 4: on Friday night? Did we hear him over the weekend?
Speaker 4: Is anyone paying attention to what is going on at
Speaker 4: the Department of Justice, to what you know, the cross
Speaker 4: examination today we talked about over the last three hours
Speaker 4: of cash Betel, these guys are not screwing around, and
Speaker 4: we have been.
Speaker 3: And I thought Beto said it right.
Speaker 4: We were so consumed we have been as Democrats being
Speaker 4: right and not focused on being in power and at
Speaker 4: the end of the day, all the progress we've made,
Speaker 4: all the progress the last century, and voting rights still right,
Speaker 4: all those issues were because we were in power. We
Speaker 4: had not just Leader Jeffreyes, we had Speaker Jeffries, Speaker Pelosi.
Speaker 4: And the progress we were made because we organized and
Speaker 4: we've turned out in remarkable numbers, and we turned out,
Speaker 4: as you said, for social justice, racial.
Speaker 3: Justice, economic justice.
Speaker 4: We turned out because we believe we're all better off,
Speaker 4: and we're all better off. We turned out because we
Speaker 4: don't tolerate one another. We want to celebrate one another
Speaker 4: and unite around the things that bind us together and
Speaker 4: the spirit of the best of the founding fathers. So
Speaker 4: that's what that's what Prop fifty is about. And if
Speaker 4: I may, I just think, you know, I don't want
Speaker 4: to talk around it. You hurt a little bit, But
Speaker 4: just to highlight what everybody means tonight, the fact that
Speaker 4: you came together. We've raised over three quarters of a
Speaker 4: million dollars from fifty states. I want folks to know
Speaker 4: every week, one person has donated ten million dollars to
Speaker 4: defeat us. One person someone who doesn't believe in reproductive freedom,
Speaker 4: someone who believes in convert. I mean the extremes of
Speaker 4: the Republican Party. One billionaire every week, ten million dollars
Speaker 4: ten thirty million in county. You had Mike Johnson write
Speaker 4: his first check. And who, by the way, who are
Speaker 4: the biggest donors behind that check. Guys like Elon musk
Speaker 4: Ye know what we're up against and know that you're
Speaker 4: the antidote to those folks, and we can defeat them.
Speaker 27: Yeah, and that's why we need these resources so we
Speaker 27: can counter the right wing money machine who are really
Speaker 27: hoping to defeat this proposition, so they can keep Donald
Speaker 27: Trump and his billionaire agenda going because they're getting everything
Speaker 27: they want right now, and it's so important that we
Speaker 27: counter their messaging. I was talking to one of my
Speaker 27: neighbors on the dog walk the other day, because I
Speaker 27: do have a big dog I could put right here
Speaker 27: on my lap that he.
Speaker 9: Could take up the whole screen.
Speaker 27: And he said to me, why am I getting all
Speaker 27: these emails about no On fifty? And I said, because
Speaker 27: they have so much money, an absurd amount of money
Speaker 27: to keep defeating democracy. These people have spent forty years
Speaker 27: trying to dismantle it. I do not think they thought
Speaker 27: the Democrats were going to fight back here, and it's
Speaker 27: why we're so grateful to you for stepping up. And
Speaker 27: now they have to spend a ton of money to
Speaker 27: make a counter punch look like a first punch, and
Speaker 27: they're the ones that brought this fight, and we're just
Speaker 27: finally standing up to the cheating.
Speaker 10: No.
Speaker 4: I love that, And it was said by a number
Speaker 4: of people this was not the fight we chose. But
Speaker 4: I think what you just said was even more powerful.
Speaker 4: I don't think Trump for a second expected us to
Speaker 4: fight back like we're fighting back. And that's why failure
Speaker 4: is not an option. It is not an option. I mean,
Speaker 4: I can't even conceive of the impact if we run short.
Speaker 4: We can't run the ninety yard dash on this. I
Speaker 4: mean twenty twenty six. If we limp into twenty twenty six,
Speaker 4: we're in real trouble. So we can build the kind
Speaker 4: of momentum. Twenty twenty six begins this November, and it's
Speaker 4: November six, but as Pete and others just said, it's
Speaker 4: really October six, because those ballots land in people's mailbox
Speaker 4: in just a few weeks. Early voting is October six.
Speaker 4: It ends on November sixth, and that's the opportunity for
Speaker 4: folks to remind everybody the power of early voting, the
Speaker 4: power of emulation, meaning emulate kind of the things you
Speaker 4: heard here tonight, and the kind of energy and the
Speaker 4: carrying and daring that so many people share tonight.
Speaker 3: And to make sure that we don't dream of regretting.
Speaker 4: We got to put everything out on the line, because
Speaker 4: this is about holding the line, and it's about holding
Speaker 4: up this democracy.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I know you wish it wasn't like this. I
Speaker 9: wish it wasn't like this.
Speaker 27: But I keep saying, like there's no pointing and planning,
Speaker 27: like these aren't the rules. When the other team keeps
Speaker 27: round house kicking us to the face, right, it doesn't
Speaker 27: matter that this isn't how politics is supposed to be played.
Speaker 9: If it is being allowed, then the rules have changed
Speaker 9: and we either kick back or we keep getting beat.
Speaker 27: And I think I speak for many of us when
Speaker 27: I say we are sick and tired of losing.
Speaker 4: You got it, and again we're using I said it before,
Speaker 4: not just our formal authority by organizing this construct and
Speaker 4: putting it on the ballot, but are moral the authority
Speaker 4: by doing something that's never been done if you still
Speaker 4: have some hesitancy, you still have some doubt. Well, you know,
Speaker 4: I don't like, you know, just emulating the bad behavior.
Speaker 4: I don't want them to implicate me in the way
Speaker 4: they do things. This is democratic, This is transparent. The
Speaker 4: maps are on the ballot. That's never happened in this country.
Speaker 4: We have never submitted to the people the ability to
Speaker 4: draw their own maps. So we're giving the people that power.
Speaker 4: This was not done in mar Lago. This was not
Speaker 4: done behind closed doors, as was the case in Texas,
Speaker 4: As is going to be the case shortly in Indiana,
Speaker 4: and what just happened in Missouri and what is likely
Speaker 4: to happen in Florida, in Ohio and elsewhere. This is
Speaker 4: done in the most transparent way. And again in a
Speaker 4: temporary response, a temporary response to what Donald Trump and
Speaker 4: what the Texas delegation did in greg Abne in just
Speaker 4: a few weeks ago. So pressed upon people more that
Speaker 4: this is it, this is it, and we've got to
Speaker 4: hold the line. We've got to hold each other's hands.
Speaker 4: We got to walk across this line at peak, and
Speaker 4: we've got to, as you say, fire with fire, and
Speaker 4: we've got to be muscular in terms of our approach
Speaker 4: and response.
Speaker 24: That's right.
Speaker 27: Absolutely. I want to thank you so much for doing
Speaker 27: this today, Governor. It's what we all really really need.
Speaker 27: And for people who are feeling a little bit like
Speaker 27: two wrongs don't make a right and I'm not sure
Speaker 27: if I should go for this, understand that this is
Speaker 27: going in the most democratic way possible. This is a
Speaker 27: temporary thing, and the goal at the end of this
Speaker 27: would we have no gerrymandering at all. It's why the
Speaker 27: Democrats voted for the for the People's Act in twenty nineteen,
Speaker 27: it's why they voted for the redistricting reformat again in
Speaker 27: twenty twenty one, and why the Republicans voted against it
Speaker 27: both times because it is the Republicans who benefit from
Speaker 27: locking in power, so it's no longer accountable to the voters.
Speaker 27: And this is not what we want, which is why
Speaker 27: we are starting by doing this by being accountable to
Speaker 27: the voters. So thank you so much, Governor. I hope
Speaker 27: people will go to yes on fifty live right now
Speaker 27: and get us past that mark. But thank you everyone,
Speaker 27: and I really hope you're feeling the same hope I'm
Speaker 27: feeling today.
Speaker 3: Love itly well said Thanks so much, Lee, and bring
Speaker 3: it home.
Speaker 1: Bring it home, and Governor Newsom, I gotta say, and
Speaker 1: I know I've said this before, but it's worth repeating.
Speaker 1: There are a million reasons to have not done this.
Speaker 1: That it's too hard, that it's too close to the election,
Speaker 1: that there's too many people standing in the way, that
Speaker 1: it would just be easier if we just practice good
Speaker 1: governance and unilaterally disarmed like Democrats always do. The reality
Speaker 1: is that thanks to your leadership, thanks to the leadership
Speaker 1: of the California Democrats, we got this thing done, which
Speaker 1: is which is half the battle right now, and so
Speaker 1: I'll repeat my plea to those who are watching right now.
Speaker 1: The reality is we got to get this thing in
Speaker 1: front of as many Californians as humanly possible. And the
Speaker 1: way that we do that is by looking to those
Speaker 1: grassroots donations. We don't have these billionaires megabillionaires who are
Speaker 1: donating ten million bucks a pop like they have on
Speaker 1: the Republican side, because they know that if they can
Speaker 1: neutralize what happens in California, then they're good to go.
Speaker 1: There's no other big weapons to deploy like we have
Speaker 1: in California, and so our antidote to that is going
Speaker 1: to be getting as many people in the grassroots donating
Speaker 1: as humanly possible. We're just a few thousand bucks away
Speaker 1: from seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars a quarter three
Speaker 1: quarters of a million dollars, and that money is going
Speaker 1: to help get this thing in front of so many
Speaker 1: Californians who don't know what the stakes are of this
Speaker 1: upcoming election on November fourth. It's going to make sure
Speaker 1: that we can get in front of people's TV screens,
Speaker 1: on their computer screens, on their phone screens, in their mailboxes,
Speaker 1: and we can't do that without this massive amount of support.
Speaker 1: So for everybody who's donated, thank you so much for
Speaker 1: being part of this effort. Thank you for being part
Speaker 1: of this movement, and also thank you being for being
Speaker 1: part of helping give something of a permission structure for
Speaker 1: other Democrats across the country to recognize that if they
Speaker 1: take aggressive action, if they take a forward leaning posture
Speaker 1: when it comes to fighting for our democracy, that they're
Speaker 1: going to have the people behind them. This is not
Speaker 1: just a California thing. Not only does it have major
Speaker 1: implications for the House as we head toward twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1: But this is also a message to other democratic governors,
Speaker 1: other democratic state legislatures that the answer is not to cower,
Speaker 1: it is not to capitulate. It is to put on
Speaker 1: your big boy pants and fight.
Speaker 2: And that's what we're seeing right now.
Speaker 11: And the way that.
Speaker 1: We make sure to give that permission structure to other
Speaker 1: Democrats to do that is by making sure that we
Speaker 1: succeed here.
Speaker 2: This is the test case. If it succeeds here, then
Speaker 2: it shows every other.
Speaker 1: Governor, every other state legislature, every other lawmaker senator across
Speaker 1: the country that the answer in this moment is not
Speaker 1: to bow down. It's not to capitulate to Trump and Republicans.
Speaker 1: It's not to appeal to our better angels and practice
Speaker 1: good governance and unilaterally disarm.
Speaker 2: It is to lean forward and fight. And that's what
Speaker 2: we're seeing right now.
Speaker 1: And of course, the ability to win this fight relies
Speaker 1: on everybody chipping in whatever we can to make this
Speaker 1: thing a reality. So Governor, on behalf of everybody watching
Speaker 1: cannot thank you enough for leading in the way that
Speaker 1: we've been begging so many people to lead, which is
Speaker 1: to to you know, back up, back up your words
Speaker 1: with some action.
Speaker 4: Here I love it, and I'm asking you for one
Speaker 4: last action because we're going to hit seven hundred and
Speaker 4: fifty thousand, but it's going to require one thing, Brian.
Speaker 4: That's not anymore your time, but one more, one more
Speaker 4: opportunity to see that beautiful dog of yours.
Speaker 2: All Right, you know what this is it?
Speaker 4: This is It is how we get This is how
Speaker 4: we get over three quarters of a million dollars.
Speaker 3: This is it, Brian, No pressure. Here we go, look
Speaker 3: at this, there we go.
Speaker 2: I'm not asking you to do it for me. I'm
Speaker 2: asking you to do it for this little guy. This
Speaker 2: is this is Don't do it for me, don't do it.
Speaker 2: Don't even do it for democracy.
Speaker 10: Just do it.
Speaker 2: Just do it for this child right here who doesn't
Speaker 2: know why, he.
Speaker 1: Doesn't know why I'm subjecting himself to these live streams
Speaker 1: over and over and over.
Speaker 3: He's already he's already passed out. Unbelievable. Look at that, hey, Brian,
Speaker 3: your rock star.
Speaker 4: The fact you hosted this three hours, unbelievable to all
Speaker 4: our influencers, all of our creators, to all the remarkable
Speaker 4: elected of feudals officials across the country.
Speaker 3: For those of you.
Speaker 4: Tuned in even for two minutes for the last two hours,
Speaker 4: Thank you those of you who made a contribution, We're
Speaker 4: grateful beyond words.
Speaker 3: Get the word out there, let folks know yes on
Speaker 3: Prop fifty.
Speaker 2: Thanks so much, Governor. And for those who are looking
Speaker 2: to donate, Yes on fifty live dot com.
Speaker 3: Thanks everybody,