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00:03:03.280 Hey, everybody.

00:03:04.340 I'm Brian Tyler Cohen.

00:03:05.800 Thank you so much for tuning in

00:03:07.140 to our Yes on 50 Voter Registration Day rally.

00:03:09.860 We've got an amazing guest list today.

00:03:11.800 We're joined by some of the biggest fighters on the left

00:03:13.860 who are meeting this moment with the urgency that it deserves.

00:03:16.680 And of course, I'm joined now by Governor Gavin Newsom.

00:03:20.160 Before we get into a little bit of our back and forth,

00:03:23.660 just want to let folks who are watching know

00:03:25.180 that we are hosting this rally

00:03:26.420 because of what's happening right now.

00:03:28.620 And what's happening right now is existential,

00:03:30.980 not just for the left, but for democracy.

00:03:34.020 We have watched as Trump has issued his clarion call

00:03:36.840 to Texas for five seats and how they responded.

00:03:39.940 We've watched as he did the same thing in Missouri

00:03:41.800 and how they responded.

00:03:43.100 We're going to see the same thing in Indiana and then Florida.

00:03:46.220 And I wouldn't be surprised if we see other states

00:03:48.460 do the exact same thing.

00:03:50.080 The reality is that this is how Republicans

00:03:51.860 engineer themselves into a permanent majority,

00:03:54.560 which makes it all the more important

00:03:56.280 that we actually fight back.

00:03:57.620 So the whole Republican movement across the country

00:04:00.140 is going to pour money into California

00:04:02.000 because they know that if they can beat this thing

00:04:03.840 in California, then they have nothing to worry about

00:04:06.360 in terms of pushing back against this overt,

00:04:09.680 blatant power grab.

00:04:11.040 So what we'll ask you to do throughout this evening

00:04:13.040 as we try and raise money to counteract

00:04:15.580 the avalanche of funds that are going to come in

00:04:17.780 from across the country on the Republican side

00:04:19.540 is we're going to ask you to go ahead

00:04:20.960 and donate to yeson50live.com.

00:04:24.540 This will help our efforts to make sure

00:04:25.980 that everybody in California knows the stakes

00:04:28.660 of what's going to happen on November 4th,

00:04:30.560 knows the stakes of this referendum coming up,

00:04:32.920 and knows that it is existential, again,

00:04:35.200 not just for Democrats,

00:04:36.300 but for the preservation of democracy itself.

00:04:38.640 So that's going to be an important point

00:04:40.300 that we're going to hit on numerous times

00:04:42.060 throughout this evening.

00:04:42.880 So with that said, I'm now honored to be joined

00:04:46.260 by the governor of California, Gavin Newsom.

00:04:48.160 Thanks so much for taking the time.

00:04:49.640 It's great to be with you, Brian.

00:04:50.780 Thank you.

00:04:51.920 So we are obviously broadcasting right now

00:04:54.420 in the midst of a really difficult week.

00:04:56.600 We've seen gun violence occur

00:04:59.440 with the shooting last week against Charlie Kirk,

00:05:02.780 we have seen the overt assaults against free speech

00:05:05.700 at the hands of Donald Trump and Pam Bondi

00:05:08.980 and all of these other purported free speech warriors.

00:05:12.080 And so in light of what we're seeing right now,

00:05:14.060 I'm sure that there are a lot of folks

00:05:15.360 who are watching this who feel, you know, exhausted.

00:05:18.340 And so what would you say to those people

00:05:20.040 who are watching to let them know

00:05:21.980 that this is worth staying on top of,

00:05:24.080 this is worth continuing to fight for?

00:05:27.160 Well, I first say is you're human.

00:05:28.980 If you're not feeling exhausted, exhausting

00:05:31.820 and anxious and in some ways fearful,

00:05:35.280 then you're not breathing, you're not living.

00:05:38.740 And I just, I think we have to give some people grace

00:05:41.940 the last five, six, seven years.

00:05:44.780 We've been through a once in a lifetime pandemic,

00:05:48.180 social unrest.

00:05:49.280 We went through all of the challenges

00:05:51.680 coming out of COVID with supply chain issues

00:05:54.500 and runaway inflation and wars of aggression

00:05:57.960 and Ukraine and challenges

00:05:59.960 that we're continuing to work our way out.

00:06:02.260 And so I just want to acknowledge

00:06:03.860 all that stacking of stress that everybody's feeling.

00:06:06.240 And of course, last week, you know,

00:06:08.460 just the ultimate punctuation.

00:06:12.640 And just for what it's worth, Ryan, you know this.

00:06:15.840 I started a podcast not too many months ago

00:06:19.160 and Charlie Kirk was my first guest.

00:06:21.360 He was gracious enough to not only say yes,

00:06:24.620 he flew out to do it in person.

00:06:28.340 And I spent not just the hour plus

00:06:30.460 in a very civil conversation with Charlie.

00:06:33.820 I spent time with him after

00:06:35.320 and we stayed in touch,

00:06:37.000 including my team staying in touch pretty consistently.

00:06:40.460 And that's the spirit I want to bring to this conversation

00:06:43.120 is one of civility, one of grace,

00:06:45.600 one of humanity, common humanity.

00:06:47.180 Obviously, we have deep differences of opinion.

00:06:50.360 Obviously, he was very offended by positions I hold dear

00:06:54.920 and I, in turn, very offended by things that he said

00:06:58.520 and positions he held.

00:07:00.140 But the fact is we had that opportunity to engage.

00:07:03.320 And so I would say in response to your question,

00:07:06.440 it's absolutely essential that we,

00:07:10.180 in the spirit of this moment,

00:07:11.820 hold ourselves to a higher level of civility

00:07:14.080 and accountability in the spirit

00:07:16.380 of this conversation,

00:07:17.420 accountability to the moment we're in

00:07:20.520 and the consequences of giving in to cynicism

00:07:23.840 and anxiety and fear.

00:07:25.480 And I just say to everyone in closing in this spirit,

00:07:28.180 you're the antidote to that cynicism,

00:07:30.180 that fear and anxiety.

00:07:31.600 The fact that you've tuned in

00:07:33.100 means you've not tuned out to what's at stake.

00:07:36.360 And I cannot impress upon people watching.

00:07:39.380 It's all at stake.

00:07:40.660 I think this is a profound and consequential moment

00:07:43.760 in American history.

00:07:46.300 We can lose this republic if we do not assert ourselves

00:07:50.200 and stand tall at this moment and stand guard

00:07:53.280 to this republic and our democracy.

00:07:55.460 I feel that in my bones,

00:07:58.800 particularly in light of what's happened in the last week.

00:08:01.300 So let's talk about the California map redraw,

00:08:04.100 the situation that we're in right now.

00:08:05.800 We have not that many weeks to go

00:08:08.460 until this referendum, until November.

00:08:11.020 And so there are going to be folks watching who say,

00:08:12.840 look, California is a big blue bastion.

00:08:15.400 Why do we have to worry about this?

00:08:16.620 This thing is already a done deal.

00:08:18.520 Why is this worth talking about right now?

00:08:21.280 Well, because it's Prop 50 for a reason

00:08:23.020 impacts all 50 states.

00:08:24.620 It's not an electoral map.

00:08:27.040 It's a simple math issue.

00:08:28.600 You said it in the outset, Donald Trump realizes

00:08:31.980 and recognizes that he is likely,

00:08:34.480 almost overwhelmingly likely to lose the midterms.

00:08:39.820 And so he's trying to hold on to power.

00:08:42.580 And the only way he can hold on to power

00:08:44.440 is to rig the system, to change the game.

00:08:47.120 He's not playing by a different set of rules.

00:08:49.260 He's playing by no rules whatsoever.

00:08:51.640 And that's why he dialed up Greg Abbott in Texas

00:08:55.580 and suggested that he's quote unquote entitled

00:08:58.160 to five seats.

00:09:00.340 They did his bidding.

00:09:01.760 And as you suggest, that bidding is being done

00:09:04.140 in real time in Missouri, in Indiana.

00:09:07.500 It will be advanced in states like Florida.

00:09:10.540 And you may have seen today the comments

00:09:12.880 that were made about Utah and Ohio as well.

00:09:16.580 So this is as real as it gets.

00:09:19.540 And the whole idea of redistricting,

00:09:21.360 I assure you is the tip of the iceberg

00:09:23.180 because he's also setting up the parameters

00:09:25.620 in the condition where he can suggest

00:09:28.100 that when he loses, that's up to us.

00:09:30.800 If we do our job, when he loses the midterm,

00:09:34.220 he could suggest it was rigged itself.

00:09:37.680 He's quite creating a chill.

00:09:39.940 And let me give you an example

00:09:40.940 of what I mean by that as it relates

00:09:43.140 to voter turnout and intimidation tactics.

00:09:46.560 When we kicked off the campaign for Yes on 50,

00:09:49.580 we did it at the Democracy Center

00:09:51.160 in Southern California.

00:09:52.660 Brian, you were there in Little Tokyo.

00:09:54.740 You know well, and many of you watching know this well.

00:09:57.840 Little Tokyo is the site, a sacred site,

00:10:01.120 where we shamefully bust the Japanese

00:10:04.600 as we interned the Japanese.

00:10:06.840 That happened.

00:10:08.020 And at that exact same site,

00:10:10.760 Donald Trump set masked private army.

00:10:13.760 He sent out border patrol and ICE

00:10:16.680 to intimidate two U.S. senators,

00:10:20.280 a half dozen or a dozen members of Congress,

00:10:22.740 100 plus community leaders,

00:10:24.460 to try to intimidate us

00:10:26.100 from holding the rally in the first place.

00:10:28.440 And a poor soul that just happened to be

00:10:30.160 out there selling strawberries

00:10:31.700 was disappeared by that same private army.

00:10:35.800 That is a preview of things to come.

00:10:38.500 I assure you, at voting booths

00:10:40.660 and polling places across this country,

00:10:42.620 just as we said after he federalized

00:10:44.980 the National Guard, and he sent the military,

00:10:47.760 not overseas, he sent the military

00:10:49.380 to a United States city in Los Angeles,

00:10:52.020 700 active-duty Marines,

00:10:54.320 is intended to chill free speech

00:10:57.800 and free expression.

00:10:59.820 The stakes could not be more clear,

00:11:02.860 and the stakes could not be more consequential.

00:11:06.360 And finally, let's finish off with this.

00:11:08.480 There are folks who are going to say

00:11:09.960 that this isn't an example of good governance,

00:11:12.860 and so Democrats should kind of practice

00:11:16.220 what they preach and not do the same thing

00:11:19.560 that they have disavowed for so long.

00:11:22.900 And so in this particular moment,

00:11:25.340 what do you say to those people?

00:11:26.640 Well, we can certainly do that.

00:11:30.520 We can have a candlelight vigil.

00:11:31.800 We can hold hands.

00:11:32.540 We can talk about the way the world should be.

00:11:34.000 We can come out with a white paper

00:11:35.660 and talk about, well, how did all this happen?

00:11:38.920 There could be some best-selling books

00:11:40.320 as we watch our democracy slip away,

00:11:42.840 as we watch the rule of law turn into the rule of dawn,

00:11:47.220 as we watch yet another law firm

00:11:48.800 or another media organization sell their soul,

00:11:51.200 or to see another corporate titan sitting there

00:11:53.520 and give personal, you know,

00:11:55.180 sit there and fealty to the dear leader.

00:11:57.880 We could see more companies get socialized

00:12:00.180 and nationalized.

00:12:01.060 We can watch universities sell out.

00:12:03.380 We can see this democracy slip through our fingers.

00:12:06.160 We can sit there and say, boy, people really should have stood up

00:12:09.580 and taken this guy, Stephen Miller,

00:12:11.560 a little bit more seriously

00:12:12.680 when he called the Democratic Party a terrorist organization

00:12:15.520 or taking the Department of Justice

00:12:17.420 and its attorney general, its leader,

00:12:19.800 who said that any speech they don't like

00:12:22.360 is now hate speech,

00:12:23.520 and they'll have the ability to shut it down

00:12:25.260 and say, boy, we could have done something more,

00:12:27.340 or we can recognize the moment we're in,

00:12:30.100 and we can meet that moment,

00:12:31.940 and we can push back,

00:12:33.320 and we do it with some muscularity.

00:12:34.880 We did this in response to what Donald Trump has done,

00:12:38.800 and we've done it in closing, Brian,

00:12:40.420 in the most democratic way,

00:12:42.760 and I would say that to those still on the fence.

00:12:45.060 That's the difference between us and them.

00:12:47.660 We're not only using our formal authority,

00:12:49.640 our ability to fight fire with fire and redistrict,

00:12:53.220 but we're using our moral authority in this respect.

00:12:55.900 It's temporary, it's transparent,

00:12:58.700 and it's democratic,

00:12:59.860 meaning we're putting in front of the voters.

00:13:02.140 This is the first maps in the United States

00:13:04.620 that will actually be submitted to the people themselves.

00:13:07.540 The maps will be on the ballot,

00:13:09.620 and it's a temporary response to this emergency,

00:13:13.500 this crisis of the rigging of the midterms,

00:13:17.380 and we need to win this at peril

00:13:21.280 that we'll lose this republic,

00:13:23.620 we'll lose this democracy.

00:13:24.860 It is not an overstatement.

00:13:26.480 This is code red.

00:13:27.640 We all need to wake up to what's going on,

00:13:31.520 and maybe, in final words,

00:13:33.400 maybe I'm saying that from the prism of being a governor

00:13:36.160 of a state where I watched the military

00:13:39.940 asserting themselves to try to take over

00:13:42.380 for domestic policing,

00:13:44.080 where I watched this private army

00:13:46.280 that is the most funded private army of its type

00:13:49.240 anywhere in the world

00:13:50.140 with ice out there in masks,

00:13:53.280 intimidating people,

00:13:54.400 and their free expression of speech.

00:13:56.660 Maybe it's because I'm sitting here

00:13:58.160 where the UC regions are meeting tomorrow

00:14:00.520 to discuss a $1.9 billion extortion fine

00:14:05.100 because institutions of higher learning

00:14:07.900 and independent thinking

00:14:08.960 are under assault by Donald Trump.

00:14:10.740 That happens to be UCLA in my state.

00:14:13.320 Maybe it's through the prism of that,

00:14:14.460 but I assure you,

00:14:15.640 in every state in America,

00:14:17.400 I assure you,

00:14:18.100 this is a preview of things to come.

00:14:20.860 Perfectly put.

00:14:21.600 And to underscore how important that is,

00:14:23.740 the reality is Republicans know all of these things,

00:14:25.880 which is why, again,

00:14:26.880 as I mentioned in the beginning,

00:14:28.120 they're going to pour a ton of money into this effort

00:14:30.200 because if they can neutralize California,

00:14:32.140 that's all they need,

00:14:33.380 especially with the weapons

00:14:34.360 that they have at their disposal,

00:14:35.580 meaning Texas, Missouri, Indiana, Florida,

00:14:38.400 and on and on.

00:14:39.260 So for those who are watching right now,

00:14:40.740 if you'd like to help us make sure

00:14:41.840 that everybody can become aware

00:14:43.680 of what's happening in California,

00:14:45.580 please donate what you can

00:14:47.500 to yeson50live.com.

00:14:49.880 And we'll be repeating that throughout the evening.

00:14:51.920 With that said,

00:14:52.600 I'd like to take the opportunity now

00:14:54.060 to introduce my friends at Crooked Media,

00:14:56.720 two of the hosts for Pod Save America,

00:14:59.260 Jon Favreau and Tommy Vitor.

00:15:02.780 Pod Save America, of course,

00:15:03.920 is a liberal podcast,

00:15:05.100 and Crooked is a media organization

00:15:06.560 that was started after these guys served

00:15:08.960 in senior positions in the Obama administration.

00:15:11.720 Jon Favreau was the chief speechwriter,

00:15:13.400 and Tommy was the spokesman

00:15:14.440 for the National Security Council.

00:15:15.920 It is my honor to introduce my friends,

00:15:17.980 Jon and Tommy.

00:15:18.640 That was the nicest intro I've ever gotten.

00:15:20.760 Jeez.

00:15:21.140 Yeah.

00:15:21.760 I feel uncomfortable now.

00:15:23.020 You guys can pay me afterwards.

00:15:25.480 We already do.

00:15:26.280 I pay you go stipend.

00:15:27.680 Listen, thank you all for being here.

00:15:29.880 Thank you for inviting us to the live stream.

00:15:31.700 Thank you for raising money for this initiative

00:15:34.260 and Governor Newsom for putting this proposal forward.

00:15:37.780 It's been a really scary, tough week,

00:15:40.620 I think, for everybody.

00:15:41.420 What happened to Charlie Kirk

00:15:44.080 is an evil, indefensible, tragedy, full stop,

00:15:48.200 end of sentence.

00:15:50.340 That said, what Donald Trump has signaled

00:15:54.980 is to come is very scary,

00:15:57.220 and it sort of reminds you of

00:15:59.760 what this country could look like

00:16:01.860 if there is no check on his power.

00:16:04.000 And I think we have all thought and hoped

00:16:05.700 and believed that the first check on his power

00:16:08.140 would be the midterm elections.

00:16:10.120 But clearly, Donald Trump wants to steal the midterms

00:16:13.040 through this redistricting process,

00:16:14.720 and we have to fight back.

00:16:16.460 And so that's why this is such an important proposition.

00:16:19.260 Yeah, I think it's pretty simple.

00:16:22.180 In an ideal world,

00:16:23.940 there would be no partisan gerrymandering,

00:16:27.480 and everyone would sign on to the bill

00:16:30.020 Democrats introduced a couple of years ago

00:16:31.780 to have independent, nonpartisan redistricting

00:16:35.620 all over the country.

00:16:36.980 That is not the world we live in.

00:16:38.660 Donald Trump decided one day

00:16:39.920 that he wanted to squeeze five more seats out of Texas

00:16:42.680 and basically has been pretty honest about it.

00:16:46.800 There's no pretext here.

00:16:48.960 There's no, he's not trying to hide it.

00:16:50.440 He's just saying, I want five more seats,

00:16:51.960 and now I want all the other states

00:16:53.160 that can give me more seats to redraw their map

00:16:55.540 so they can give me more seats as well.

00:16:57.080 So then it's easier for me to win the midterms.

00:16:59.360 So then I don't have to be investigated for anything.

00:17:02.740 My administration doesn't have to be investigated

00:17:04.300 for anything, and I can continue to confirm judges

00:17:07.460 and pass all kinds of legislation.

00:17:11.040 And if we win the midterms,

00:17:13.600 Donald Trump will never sign a piece of legislation again.

00:17:16.420 If we win the midterms,

00:17:18.560 we can start trying to hold his administration accountable.

00:17:22.720 And so this now comes down to Prop 50,

00:17:26.000 and I know some people might think,

00:17:27.940 well, it's California,

00:17:29.660 Democratic voter registration advantage,

00:17:31.900 should be no problem.

00:17:34.020 It's gonna be a lower turnout election,

00:17:36.300 and so a lot of political junkies,

00:17:37.840 like the people who are probably watching this livestream,

00:17:40.260 are gonna show up, and that's that.

00:17:41.580 Well, the other side is going to spend millions and millions

00:17:46.200 and millions of dollars to try to defeat this,

00:17:48.200 because Donald Trump and the Republicans are very aware

00:17:51.600 that if we draw the maps here

00:17:54.480 to try to neutralize what they're doing in Texas

00:17:58.140 and other places,

00:17:59.500 that it's gonna be harder for them to win.

00:18:02.580 And reporting suggests that on Donald Trump's mind

00:18:06.060 are the midterms more than they ever have been.

00:18:08.480 He is very, very intent on winning these.

00:18:11.640 He's very, very nervous

00:18:12.720 about the possibility of being investigated,

00:18:15.260 his administration being investigated.

00:18:16.800 So they are going to dump

00:18:17.880 an enormous amount of money in here,

00:18:19.760 and they're going to try to get their base going

00:18:22.280 and to get people to turn out in midterm elections

00:18:25.240 that don't usually turn out,

00:18:26.480 that usually just turn out for Donald Trump

00:18:27.860 in presidential year.

00:18:28.980 So they're throwing everything they have into this,

00:18:31.000 which is why it's really, really important

00:18:33.340 for everyone to donate

00:18:35.040 so that we can get the word out,

00:18:36.480 so that Governor Newsom can get the word out.

00:18:38.940 And ballot initiatives in California

00:18:41.220 are always a little confusing,

00:18:42.680 having lived here for quite a while now.

00:18:45.320 And so we have to remind everyone

00:18:47.340 through communication,

00:18:48.560 through spending money on ads,

00:18:50.080 that you gotta vote yes on this

00:18:52.440 to make sure that we have a chance

00:18:53.920 in the midterms to take back the House.

00:18:57.120 So please, if you can,

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00:19:04.800 And thanks everyone for listening

00:19:07.220 and for tuning in.

00:19:08.700 And now we're going to bring in

00:19:10.660 a Massachusetts luminary.

00:19:12.640 Yes.

00:19:13.300 Senator Elizabeth Warren is on the stream.

00:19:16.220 Our real home state senator.

00:19:17.820 Great to see you, yeah.

00:19:19.060 Good to see you guys.

00:19:21.080 The Patriots are one and one.

00:19:23.080 That's the best news I've gotten all week.

00:19:24.740 How are you?

00:19:25.400 I'm doing just fine.

00:19:26.680 Thank you very much.

00:19:27.760 Personally, but do keep in mind,

00:19:29.780 I am here in Washington, D.C.

00:19:31.940 And I go in every day that I'm here

00:19:34.420 to work in a Senate

00:19:35.920 controlled by spineless Republicans

00:19:38.100 and to worry about what comes over

00:19:41.560 from the House,

00:19:42.580 which is controlled by spineless Republicans.

00:19:45.940 You know, you keep thinking about

00:19:48.320 why are they pouring so much into this?

00:19:50.980 And I think you make exactly

00:19:52.220 one important point,

00:19:53.740 and that is Donald Trump

00:19:54.460 does not want to be investigated.

00:19:56.220 But I want to dig a little more on this.

00:19:59.780 Because part of what's at stake here

00:20:02.860 is that what Donald Trump

00:20:04.820 has been able to do

00:20:06.200 over the last,

00:20:08.220 how long has it been?

00:20:09.360 158 years.

00:20:13.120 Since January when he was sworn in,

00:20:17.160 is that he has been able

00:20:19.540 to break the law

00:20:21.180 over and over and over

00:20:23.080 and over and over and over.

00:20:24.780 And people say, what can we do?

00:20:26.120 Well, I'll tell you.

00:20:27.880 If just a tiny number

00:20:31.080 of Republicans in the House

00:20:33.180 or the Senate would say,

00:20:34.360 we're done.

00:20:35.220 We're not doing that.

00:20:36.160 You can't do that.

00:20:37.920 Donald Trump, yes, you are president,

00:20:39.680 but here are things you cannot do.

00:20:41.520 And used our leverage

00:20:42.760 and said, we won't pass anything

00:20:44.660 out of the House,

00:20:45.900 out of the Congress.

00:20:47.220 We won't give you funding.

00:20:48.700 There are all these things

00:20:49.340 we would have power to do.

00:20:50.500 The problem is

00:20:52.060 the Republicans

00:20:53.780 just try to outdo each other

00:20:56.700 in how fast they fall to the floor

00:20:59.500 to kiss Donald Trump's feet.

00:21:01.900 And the consequence of that

00:21:03.880 is the whole basic structure

00:21:06.840 of government now

00:21:08.480 is breaking apart.

00:21:12.360 So here we have Donald Trump,

00:21:14.280 the would-be king,

00:21:15.100 and Congress

00:21:17.420 under the Constitution,

00:21:19.880 there was always

00:21:20.580 this unspoken presumption

00:21:21.840 would jealously guard its power.

00:21:24.020 Well, it's not

00:21:24.940 under Republican control.

00:21:27.040 It is acting

00:21:28.860 like a frightened child.

00:21:31.500 You know, just

00:21:31.860 anything Donald Trump wants,

00:21:35.000 just don't let him

00:21:36.600 get angry with us.

00:21:38.840 And so you've got

00:21:39.640 the House and the Senate

00:21:40.640 under Republican control

00:21:41.980 just falling to the ground.

00:21:43.120 The difference

00:21:44.080 if we had

00:21:45.980 either of the houses

00:21:48.320 under Democratic control

00:21:50.560 is that stops.

00:21:51.720 And if we have both houses

00:21:53.140 under Democratic control,

00:21:55.840 now we are truly

00:21:58.040 back in the game

00:21:59.620 in terms of making

00:22:01.660 our Constitution work again.

00:22:04.140 And so I just think

00:22:05.480 it's an important part

00:22:06.460 for everybody to understand.

00:22:08.540 It's about the midterms.

00:22:10.140 Yes, yes, yes.

00:22:10.800 But please understand

00:22:12.320 how important

00:22:12.960 these midterms are.

00:22:15.440 Any accountability

00:22:16.520 for Donald Trump,

00:22:17.860 any accountability

00:22:19.020 is going to come

00:22:20.260 because of the midterms,

00:22:22.000 whether it's investigations,

00:22:23.720 whether it's

00:22:24.280 we get spending back.

00:22:26.220 You want to support

00:22:27.540 cancer research,

00:22:28.860 so do I.

00:22:29.660 Let me tell you

00:22:30.160 the way to do that.

00:22:31.480 That is vote yes on 50

00:22:33.000 so that we have a chance

00:22:35.100 to get the House back.

00:22:36.740 And that means

00:22:37.740 we can be in those negotiations

00:22:39.280 and make sure

00:22:40.020 that the money

00:22:40.620 that Congress allocates

00:22:42.420 for cancer spending

00:22:43.420 actually gets spent

00:22:44.860 on trying to cure cancer.

00:22:46.980 And I can just play

00:22:47.780 that example out

00:22:49.020 literally a thousand times.

00:22:51.360 I mean, Senator,

00:22:52.240 it was incredible today

00:22:53.060 watching Kash Patel,

00:22:54.800 the FBI director's hearing

00:22:56.000 for whatever committee

00:22:57.480 that was.

00:22:58.520 And he is just clearly

00:22:59.560 performing for an audience

00:23:00.600 of one.

00:23:01.240 He is shouting down

00:23:02.840 Democratic senators.

00:23:03.960 He's insulting them.

00:23:05.900 He's speaking over them.

00:23:07.540 He's threatening them,

00:23:09.260 essentially.

00:23:10.180 And the Republican chairman

00:23:12.500 was, you know,

00:23:14.060 gaveling quiet

00:23:15.120 the Democratic members.

00:23:16.560 Like, to your point,

00:23:18.080 at one point along the way,

00:23:19.300 it seemed like each body

00:23:22.380 or each institution

00:23:23.520 like jealously guarded

00:23:24.600 its own power above all else.

00:23:26.440 But it seems like Republicans

00:23:27.720 were just thrilled

00:23:28.680 to watch this performance

00:23:29.740 and to watch their colleagues

00:23:32.120 be insulted.

00:23:33.320 Right.

00:23:33.540 Can I be just a little dorky

00:23:35.000 and make the same point again?

00:23:36.640 Please.

00:23:37.240 It is what's happening

00:23:38.400 with the Federal Reserve.

00:23:40.520 So here is the one agency

00:23:42.940 that Democrats and Republicans

00:23:44.580 have said for 100 zillion years,

00:23:47.880 yes, the Fed needs to be independent.

00:23:49.740 Why?

00:23:50.260 Because the Fed sometimes

00:23:51.400 has to make really hard

00:23:53.040 policy decisions.

00:23:54.740 And so everybody wants confidence,

00:23:56.820 whether you've got a Democrat

00:23:57.640 or Republican in the White House,

00:23:59.440 that they're doing it

00:24:00.820 as best they can

00:24:02.060 based on the numbers,

00:24:03.600 based on what the economic data are.

00:24:06.100 That's what we hope

00:24:07.600 keeps our economy steady

00:24:10.000 and helps protect Americans

00:24:11.940 across this country.

00:24:13.820 So what happens?

00:24:16.340 Donald Trump gets to nominate someone.

00:24:18.900 The guy he has nominated,

00:24:20.500 this is no joke,

00:24:21.460 Dr. Myron,

00:24:22.380 now sits as the president

00:24:23.680 of the Council of Economic Advisors,

00:24:25.460 working in the White House for Trump.

00:24:27.460 He's not going to give up that job.

00:24:29.280 He wants to keep a foot in that boat

00:24:31.960 while he goes over

00:24:33.600 to the so-called independent Fed.

00:24:37.840 And so every Republican senator

00:24:40.140 at our hearing last week in banking,

00:24:42.180 I know it didn't have all the sparkle

00:24:43.540 of the Patel hearing,

00:24:44.940 but every Republican senator,

00:24:47.780 I believe in the independence

00:24:49.700 of the Fed.

00:24:51.260 So I asked this guy

00:24:53.500 who's Donald Trump's nominee,

00:24:54.560 I said,

00:24:54.740 you're going to be independent.

00:24:55.720 He's going to be independent.

00:24:57.620 He wrote up his notes.

00:24:59.180 I will be independent.

00:25:00.460 I will be Mr. Independent.

00:25:01.700 I said, great.

00:25:02.680 Let's just test out

00:25:03.740 how independent you can be

00:25:06.240 of Donald Trump.

00:25:07.660 Did Donald Trump lose

00:25:08.680 the 2020 election?

00:25:12.700 Mr. Independent

00:25:14.220 could not answer that question.

00:25:19.320 Well, it was ruled by a

00:25:21.700 blah, blah, blah,

00:25:22.720 and was confirmed,

00:25:24.620 blah, blah, right?

00:25:26.060 He could not bring himself

00:25:28.240 to say this.

00:25:28.860 So I said, okay,

00:25:29.800 let's go to another.

00:25:30.980 Let's go.

00:25:31.260 I realize that one's sensitive.

00:25:32.780 Let's go to what Donald Trump said

00:25:34.940 when he fired

00:25:35.980 the person who put out

00:25:38.440 the labor statistics,

00:25:39.800 the head of the

00:25:40.580 BLS, Bureau of Labor Statistics.

00:25:44.680 And I said,

00:25:46.160 Donald Trump,

00:25:46.660 and I read the quote,

00:25:47.520 you know,

00:25:47.700 said this person lied

00:25:48.820 and tried to help Kamala

00:25:50.040 and falsify data.

00:25:51.180 And I said,

00:25:52.280 is that true?

00:25:53.440 Again,

00:25:54.520 here's the guy

00:25:54.980 who's chief economist,

00:25:56.480 literally could not say

00:25:59.480 that maybe,

00:26:00.460 just maybe,

00:26:01.820 the president

00:26:02.780 got a word or two wrong

00:26:04.440 when he called

00:26:06.580 the head of BLS

00:26:07.700 a liar and a cheat

00:26:08.780 and just maybe

00:26:10.540 had overstepped

00:26:11.540 a little bit.

00:26:12.260 And I use that

00:26:13.640 as an example

00:26:14.620 of everybody

00:26:16.340 who comes through

00:26:17.200 to be confirmed

00:26:18.020 starts with prostrating

00:26:20.900 themselves

00:26:21.940 in front of

00:26:23.220 Donald Trump

00:26:24.580 might be looking.

00:26:25.760 And I am so grateful

00:26:26.700 to Donald Trump,

00:26:27.620 they all say,

00:26:28.320 and I will do

00:26:28.960 whatever he wants me to do.

00:26:31.220 That's why

00:26:32.240 I see

00:26:33.260 Prop 50

00:26:34.320 as a fight

00:26:35.660 for the independence

00:26:37.360 of our democracy.

00:26:39.480 A fight to say

00:26:40.820 there's a check on power.

00:26:42.660 For everybody

00:26:43.140 who shut up

00:26:43.780 for no kings,

00:26:44.960 this is your chance

00:26:45.940 in California

00:26:46.760 to show up

00:26:48.360 and just say

00:26:49.460 power,

00:26:51.400 we get it.

00:26:52.060 Presidents should have power.

00:26:53.780 But there's got to be

00:26:55.060 a check on that power.

00:26:56.540 And right now,

00:26:58.060 there ain't no check

00:26:58.880 on that power.

00:26:59.800 It's not coming

00:27:00.600 from the Republicans

00:27:01.420 in the House.

00:27:02.180 It's not coming

00:27:02.740 from the Republicans

00:27:03.660 in the Senate.

00:27:04.780 It sure is not coming

00:27:05.940 from other people

00:27:06.720 in government.

00:27:07.260 And this is our chance

00:27:08.580 to get a foot back

00:27:09.920 in the door on that.

00:27:11.280 That's right.

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00:27:20.180 I'm Jorge Ramos.

00:27:21.680 And I'm Paula Ramos.

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00:27:30.000 We sit down

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00:27:32.000 I would be

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00:27:34.180 in generations,

00:27:35.400 but 40% of New Yorkers

00:27:36.760 were born outside

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00:27:38.640 Artists and activists,

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00:27:40.100 do you ever feel

00:27:40.980 demoralized?

00:27:42.420 I might personally

00:27:43.740 lose hope.

00:27:44.360 This individual

00:27:45.280 might lose the faith,

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00:28:19.740 This is a tape

00:28:20.760 recorded statement.

00:28:22.240 The person being

00:28:23.000 interviewed is

00:28:23.760 Krista Gale Pike.

00:28:26.500 This is in regards

00:28:27.320 to the death

00:28:28.580 of a Colleen Slimmer.

00:28:30.740 She started going

00:28:31.820 off on me

00:28:32.500 when I hit her.

00:28:34.680 I just hit her

00:28:35.760 and hit her

00:28:36.220 and hit her

00:28:36.700 and hit her.

00:28:37.120 On a cold

00:28:38.660 January day

00:28:39.640 in 1995,

00:28:41.860 18-year-old

00:28:42.600 Krista Pike

00:28:43.340 killed 19-year-old

00:28:44.880 Colleen Slimmer

00:28:45.780 in the woods

00:28:46.700 of Knoxville, Tennessee.

00:28:48.640 Since her conviction,

00:28:49.960 Krista has been

00:28:50.520 sitting on death row.

00:28:52.160 The state has asked

00:28:52.820 for an execution

00:28:53.420 date for Krista.

00:28:55.540 We let people

00:28:56.300 languish in prison

00:28:57.400 for decades,

00:28:58.840 raising questions

00:28:59.580 about who we

00:29:00.340 consider fundamentally

00:29:01.500 unrestorable.

00:29:03.120 How does someone

00:29:03.680 prove that they

00:29:04.420 deserve to live?

00:29:06.420 We are starting

00:29:07.080 the recording now.

00:29:08.360 Please state

00:29:08.880 your first

00:29:09.440 and last name.

00:29:12.240 Krista Pike.

00:29:13.840 Listen to

00:29:14.700 Unrestorable Season 2,

00:29:16.560 Proof of Life,

00:29:17.540 on the iHeartRadio app,

00:29:19.360 Apple Podcasts,

00:29:20.380 or wherever you

00:29:21.320 get your podcasts.

00:29:22.240 My name is Ed.

00:29:26.120 Everyone say,

00:29:26.520 hello, Ed!

00:29:27.320 Hello, Ed!

00:29:28.620 I'm from a very

00:29:29.160 rural background myself.

00:29:30.300 My dad is a farmer

00:29:31.140 and my mom is a cousin,

00:29:32.740 so, like,

00:29:33.340 it's not like...

00:29:34.740 What do you get

00:29:35.360 when a true crime producer

00:29:36.640 walks into a comedy club?

00:29:38.760 I know it sounds like

00:29:39.660 the start of a bad joke,

00:29:40.800 but that really was

00:29:41.740 my reality nine years ago.

00:29:43.480 I just normally do

00:29:44.420 straight stand-up,

00:29:45.300 but this is a bit different.

00:29:47.520 On stage stood a comedian

00:29:49.440 with a story

00:29:50.400 that no one expected

00:29:51.700 to hear.

00:29:52.880 On the 22nd of July,

00:29:53.820 2015,

00:29:55.520 a 23-year-old man

00:29:56.720 had killed his family.

00:29:58.560 And then he came

00:30:03.700 to my house.

00:30:05.480 So what do you get

00:30:06.800 when a true crime producer

00:30:07.980 walks into a comedy club?

00:30:10.080 A new podcast

00:30:11.160 called Wisecrack,

00:30:12.640 where stand-up comedy

00:30:13.800 and murder

00:30:14.580 take center stage.

00:30:16.440 Available now.

00:30:19.300 Listen to Wisecrack

00:30:20.520 on the iHeartRadio app,

00:30:22.160 Apple Podcasts,

00:30:23.140 or wherever you

00:30:23.780 get your podcasts.

00:30:28.560 All I know

00:30:29.600 is what I've been told,

00:30:31.300 and that to have truth

00:30:32.400 is a whole lie.

00:30:33.920 For almost a decade,

00:30:35.940 the murder

00:30:36.360 of an 18-year-old girl

00:30:38.060 from a small town

00:30:39.480 in Graves County,

00:30:41.000 Kentucky,

00:30:41.920 went unsolved.

00:30:43.260 Until a local homemaker,

00:30:45.140 a journalist,

00:30:46.000 and a handful of girls

00:30:47.260 came forward

00:30:48.300 with a story.

00:30:49.680 I'm telling you,

00:30:50.600 we know Quincy Hilder.

00:30:52.200 We know.

00:30:52.680 A story that law enforcement

00:30:54.720 used to convict

00:30:55.880 six people

00:30:56.980 and that got

00:30:57.880 The Citizen Investigator

00:30:59.340 on national TV.

00:31:01.040 Through sheer persistence

00:31:02.520 and nerve,

00:31:03.520 this Kentucky housewife

00:31:04.720 helped give justice

00:31:06.020 to Jessica Curran.

00:31:08.000 My name is Maggie Freeling.

00:31:09.800 I'm a Pulitzer Prize-winning

00:31:11.080 journalist,

00:31:12.080 producer,

00:31:12.760 and I wouldn't be here

00:31:14.880 if the truth

00:31:15.960 were that easy to find.

00:31:18.140 I did not know her

00:31:19.240 and I did not kill her.

00:31:20.520 Or rape,

00:31:21.080 or burn,

00:31:21.680 or any of that other stuff

00:31:22.660 that y'all said.

00:31:23.720 They literally made me say

00:31:24.860 that I took a match

00:31:25.660 and struck and threw it on her.

00:31:27.360 They made me say

00:31:28.100 that I poured gas on her.

00:31:31.480 From Lava for Good,

00:31:33.260 this is Graves County,

00:31:35.120 a show about just how far

00:31:37.420 our legal system will go

00:31:39.020 in order to find

00:31:40.600 someone to blame.

00:31:42.120 America,

00:31:42.680 y'all better work the hell up.

00:31:44.280 Bad things happen

00:31:45.640 to good people

00:31:47.640 in small towns.

00:31:50.920 Listen to Graves County

00:31:52.440 in the Bone Valley feed

00:31:53.960 on the iHeartRadio app,

00:31:55.700 Apple Podcasts,

00:31:56.780 or wherever

00:31:57.400 you get your podcasts.

00:31:59.340 And to binge

00:32:00.040 the entire season

00:32:00.920 ad-free,

00:32:01.840 subscribe to

00:32:02.400 Lava for Good Plus

00:32:03.400 on Apple Podcasts.

00:32:14.480 In early 1988,

00:32:16.760 federal agents raced

00:32:17.880 to track down the gang

00:32:18.840 they suspect of importing

00:32:20.000 millions of dollars

00:32:21.080 worth of heroin

00:32:21.740 into New York

00:32:22.860 from Asia.

00:32:24.320 We had 30 agents

00:32:25.560 ready to go

00:32:26.220 with shotguns

00:32:27.480 and rifles

00:32:28.420 and you name it.

00:32:30.100 But what they find

00:32:31.020 is not what they expected.

00:32:33.800 Basically,

00:32:34.460 your stay-at-home moms

00:32:35.380 were picking up

00:32:35.980 these large amounts

00:32:36.820 of heroin.

00:32:37.860 They go,

00:32:38.460 is this your daughter?

00:32:39.380 I said, yes.

00:32:40.280 They go, oh,

00:32:41.120 you may not see her

00:32:42.200 for like 25 years.

00:32:46.940 Caught between

00:32:47.760 a federal investigation

00:32:48.880 and the violent gang

00:32:50.560 who recruited them,

00:32:52.140 the women must decide

00:32:53.200 who they're willing

00:32:54.220 to protect

00:32:54.840 and who they dare

00:32:56.260 to betray.

00:32:58.480 Once I saw the gun,

00:32:59.400 I tried to take his hand

00:33:00.380 and I saw the flash of light.

00:33:02.800 Listen to the

00:33:03.420 Chinatown Sting

00:33:04.260 on the iHeartRadio app,

00:33:06.300 Apple Podcasts,

00:33:07.360 or anywhere

00:33:08.180 you get your podcasts.

00:33:12.420 It is my honor now

00:33:14.080 to be able

00:33:14.580 to introduce

00:33:15.740 two more folks.

00:33:17.460 We have Ben Micellis

00:33:18.520 who co-founded

00:33:19.120 the Midas Touch Network

00:33:20.060 which is the top-viewed

00:33:21.540 political YouTube channel

00:33:22.520 and the most-listened-to podcast

00:33:24.000 each month

00:33:24.780 of this year.

00:33:26.680 Huge congratulations

00:33:27.720 to Ben

00:33:28.320 and your brothers

00:33:28.840 for what you've built

00:33:29.580 in Midas Touch.

00:33:30.180 I could not be

00:33:30.920 more proud to see

00:33:32.060 that the left is fighting back

00:33:33.260 and you guys

00:33:34.280 are a huge,

00:33:35.340 huge,

00:33:35.640 huge part of that.

00:33:36.320 So thank you

00:33:37.200 for the work you're doing

00:33:38.000 and congratulations

00:33:39.160 on all of the well-deserved

00:33:40.940 accolades

00:33:41.900 that you guys have gotten.

00:33:43.100 And I'm also going to call in

00:33:44.360 Governor Newsom now

00:33:45.600 who of course

00:33:47.040 is the center

00:33:47.760 of all of this.

00:33:48.840 We have been,

00:33:49.400 you know,

00:33:49.760 begging and pleading

00:33:50.620 for Democrats

00:33:51.180 who are willing

00:33:51.700 to match their words

00:33:53.720 and their rhetoric

00:33:54.420 with action

00:33:55.160 and nobody

00:33:55.900 has better exemplified

00:33:57.020 that than the governor.

00:33:57.940 So I'll let you both

00:33:58.480 take it from here.

00:33:59.880 Governor Newsom,

00:34:00.780 it's great to see you.

00:34:01.800 The man of the hour

00:34:02.940 right now

00:34:03.680 and your name

00:34:04.820 is on Donald Trump's

00:34:06.320 social media

00:34:07.280 it seems

00:34:07.920 on an almost hourly basis,

00:34:10.300 whether it's Donald Trump

00:34:11.880 claiming that

00:34:12.780 he saved Los Angeles

00:34:15.060 by turning on

00:34:16.220 a magical faucet

00:34:17.620 somewhere in the imaginary border

00:34:19.980 between California

00:34:21.620 and Canada,

00:34:23.200 whether it's Donald Trump

00:34:24.400 saying that he saved

00:34:25.480 Los Angeles again

00:34:27.140 a few months back,

00:34:28.620 whether he,

00:34:29.700 whatever he was making up

00:34:30.760 about you today,

00:34:31.840 it seems that you

00:34:33.600 standing up to him

00:34:34.520 is having a certain

00:34:35.340 type of reaction,

00:34:36.300 doesn't it?

00:34:37.640 Oh, I appreciate that.

00:34:39.360 It's, yeah,

00:34:40.320 no, it's a point of pride.

00:34:41.480 I mean, there were,

00:34:42.060 it was almost 48 hours

00:34:43.740 where I felt

00:34:44.400 he'd forgotten about me,

00:34:45.440 but you're right.

00:34:45.980 No, he tried to hit me

00:34:47.340 on his way over to the UK

00:34:48.740 and it's just,

00:34:49.820 it's a reminder

00:34:50.520 of what we're up against,

00:34:51.980 mis and disinformation,

00:34:53.820 just complete bullshit,

00:34:56.000 excuse my language,

00:34:57.160 that comes from Donald Trump

00:34:58.840 and that's why

00:35:00.240 it's important

00:35:00.960 that we're not only

00:35:01.740 winning the war

00:35:03.560 in the spirit

00:35:04.200 of what Beto

00:35:05.040 and Mark just brought

00:35:06.240 to this conversation

00:35:07.140 on the ground

00:35:08.280 in the spirit

00:35:08.820 of what Brian

00:35:09.420 talked about

00:35:10.340 in terms of this

00:35:11.040 grassroots people power

00:35:12.300 effort to push back

00:35:14.360 against the well-heeled,

00:35:16.280 but it's absolutely critical

00:35:18.000 that we win

00:35:18.620 the messaging war

00:35:20.000 as well,

00:35:21.140 that we organize

00:35:22.560 in a much more,

00:35:23.720 I think,

00:35:25.500 much more,

00:35:26.300 you know,

00:35:26.680 intense way

00:35:27.640 to communicate

00:35:29.000 over and over

00:35:30.260 and over again

00:35:31.660 our message

00:35:32.480 across the spectrum,

00:35:33.720 which is just foundational

00:35:35.340 in all these efforts.

00:35:36.640 Look,

00:35:37.120 the federal government

00:35:38.200 once again

00:35:39.440 is heading towards

00:35:40.480 another shutdown

00:35:42.000 potentially,

00:35:43.000 but Donald Trump

00:35:43.980 has ordered

00:35:44.780 MAGA Mike Johnson

00:35:45.960 and Republicans

00:35:47.380 do not even have

00:35:49.080 conversations

00:35:50.040 with Democrats.

00:35:51.500 He's repeatedly

00:35:52.380 referred to Democrats

00:35:53.560 as the enemy,

00:35:55.660 radical,

00:35:56.760 don't deal with them,

00:35:57.640 don't even talk to them.

00:35:59.540 You've been in politics

00:36:00.340 for a little bit.

00:36:01.580 That's not the way

00:36:02.500 it always was,

00:36:04.080 but it is what

00:36:04.900 Donald Trump

00:36:05.500 has turned

00:36:06.200 the body politic

00:36:07.600 into today,

00:36:09.180 kind of this

00:36:09.800 zero-sum game,

00:36:11.260 if you will,

00:36:11.720 and we see it play out

00:36:12.760 over and over again.

00:36:14.600 And, you know,

00:36:15.320 it seems as the American people

00:36:16.880 are letting their voices

00:36:18.480 be heard right now,

00:36:20.000 he's getting more

00:36:20.920 and more nervous,

00:36:21.780 hence trying to rig

00:36:22.640 these midterms.

00:36:23.740 No, look,

00:36:24.400 I mean,

00:36:24.720 I think what you've underscored

00:36:26.200 is the fundamental

00:36:26.880 point here.

00:36:27.800 Trump is weakness.

00:36:29.740 He's weakness,

00:36:30.540 masquerading,

00:36:31.120 and strength.

00:36:31.680 He's flailing.

00:36:33.260 The economy

00:36:34.240 is cooling,

00:36:35.160 inflation's starting

00:36:36.140 to rise again,

00:36:38.080 consumer confidence

00:36:38.920 is down,

00:36:39.920 credit card debt

00:36:40.700 is going up,

00:36:42.060 the tariffs

00:36:42.880 have terrified

00:36:44.480 our allies,

00:36:45.560 and taxes

00:36:46.440 are being felt

00:36:47.200 on the American people,

00:36:48.320 middle-class families.

00:36:49.820 His only legislative success,

00:36:51.800 the big,

00:36:52.100 beautiful bill,

00:36:52.700 is anything but.

00:36:53.960 It's a big,

00:36:54.360 beautiful betrayal.

00:36:55.720 And we're seeing

00:36:56.760 all of these

00:36:57.320 authoritarian tendencies

00:36:58.500 as a response

00:36:59.500 to that weakness.

00:37:01.360 And the more you see

00:37:02.480 caps

00:37:03.040 in his true social

00:37:05.020 and his tweets,

00:37:06.020 the more that just

00:37:06.900 underscores the fact

00:37:08.400 that he's flailing.

00:37:10.320 That's why he's trying

00:37:11.160 to rig this election.

00:37:12.180 That's why we're having

00:37:12.780 this conversation.

00:37:13.740 That's what Prop 50

00:37:14.600 is all about.

00:37:15.980 It's pushing back

00:37:16.840 in a meaningful

00:37:17.760 and substantive way.

00:37:19.300 But one cannot

00:37:20.280 underestimate

00:37:21.260 the lengths

00:37:22.320 to which he will go

00:37:23.560 to not just rig

00:37:25.000 the midterms,

00:37:26.480 but the impacts

00:37:27.940 if he's successful

00:37:29.280 well beyond that.

00:37:30.380 And I really appreciate it,

00:37:31.400 Beto and Elizabeth Warren,

00:37:33.200 Senator Warren,

00:37:33.680 others really highlighting

00:37:35.180 that,

00:37:35.740 Congressman Garcia,

00:37:37.000 that this is not

00:37:38.100 just about 2025,

00:37:39.720 the impacts on 2026

00:37:41.420 and 2028

00:37:42.800 and beyond.

00:37:44.200 The consequences

00:37:45.060 of this initiative

00:37:46.600 to set the tone

00:37:47.900 and tenor

00:37:48.360 into 2026

00:37:49.960 to de facto

00:37:50.880 end the Trump

00:37:52.060 presidency

00:37:53.240 next year's midterms.

00:37:55.620 Whereas,

00:37:56.620 Tommy said in the outset,

00:37:58.420 Donald Trump

00:37:58.960 will no longer

00:37:59.700 be able to sign

00:38:00.520 any bill

00:38:01.680 because we'll finally

00:38:02.780 have a check

00:38:03.340 on his power.

00:38:04.820 You know,

00:38:05.080 living in California

00:38:06.080 is something that I have

00:38:07.300 a great deal

00:38:08.140 of pride about.

00:38:09.640 We are the fourth

00:38:10.460 largest economy

00:38:12.320 in the world

00:38:13.000 if California

00:38:13.720 was a country.

00:38:16.120 We are a

00:38:16.980 giver state.

00:38:17.840 We give $80 billion

00:38:19.180 plus more

00:38:20.440 to the federal government

00:38:21.520 than we take.

00:38:22.660 By contrast,

00:38:23.660 Texas takes

00:38:25.020 about $75 billion

00:38:26.600 more than it gives.

00:38:28.260 You go through

00:38:28.800 every stat

00:38:29.820 in entrepreneurship,

00:38:31.460 companies,

00:38:32.660 California's leading

00:38:34.280 the way.

00:38:35.480 Is that,

00:38:35.880 I mean,

00:38:36.040 but it's constantly

00:38:37.060 under attack

00:38:37.980 by Trump

00:38:38.660 and lots of people

00:38:39.800 in red states

00:38:40.440 who,

00:38:41.240 let's face it,

00:38:41.860 I know how Donald Trump

00:38:42.680 likes to falsely say

00:38:43.860 that the United States

00:38:44.960 subsidizes Canada,

00:38:46.640 which is not accurate

00:38:47.920 and completely false,

00:38:48.940 but let's face it,

00:38:49.920 a lot of these red states

00:38:51.220 are failing

00:38:52.320 and but for California

00:38:54.260 kind of subsidizing

00:38:55.320 the country,

00:38:56.060 yet they then come

00:38:56.880 and attack us

00:38:57.480 here in California.

00:38:58.300 I don't like that, Gov.

00:38:59.380 I'm with you, man.

00:39:00.300 It's the California

00:39:01.260 derangement syndrome

00:39:02.440 and with respect

00:39:03.720 to our friend,

00:39:04.640 Beto O'Rourke,

00:39:05.700 you're exactly right,

00:39:06.780 $71.1 billion

00:39:08.660 taker state,

00:39:11.160 California,

00:39:11.700 $83.1 billion

00:39:13.960 donor state,

00:39:15.320 meaning we provide

00:39:16.400 $83 plus billion

00:39:17.480 more in revenue

00:39:18.460 to the federal government

00:39:19.600 than we receive back

00:39:20.560 and that is the case,

00:39:22.520 vast majority

00:39:23.240 of blue states,

00:39:24.720 but we also have

00:39:25.540 to state the facts.

00:39:26.480 I live in California,

00:39:27.500 you live here,

00:39:28.400 size of 21 state

00:39:29.500 populations combined,

00:39:30.700 the fourth largest economy

00:39:31.860 from a GDP

00:39:32.760 in the world,

00:39:33.580 more scientists,

00:39:34.400 engineers,

00:39:35.220 more researchers,

00:39:36.100 more Nobel laureates

00:39:37.060 than any state

00:39:37.880 in the nation,

00:39:38.720 a system of education

00:39:39.880 that's a conveyor belt

00:39:40.820 for talent,

00:39:41.480 the UC,

00:39:42.160 CSUs,

00:39:43.060 our community college system,

00:39:45.160 pushing out the boundaries

00:39:46.000 of discovery,

00:39:46.960 more venture capital

00:39:47.840 and we dominate

00:39:48.680 in the next big global economy,

00:39:51.520 32 of the top 50 AI companies

00:39:54.160 all here in the state

00:39:55.540 of California.

00:39:56.140 So our state of mind

00:39:57.320 is about not just imagination,

00:39:59.240 but it's innovation,

00:40:01.000 it's dreaming and doing

00:40:02.300 and it's not lost on me

00:40:04.260 and it shouldn't be lost

00:40:05.000 on anybody.

00:40:06.260 The part of our secret sauce

00:40:07.800 is the fact

00:40:09.200 that we are able

00:40:10.400 to get the best

00:40:11.040 and the brightest

00:40:11.660 from around the globe,

00:40:13.140 first round draft choices.

00:40:14.760 We're a majority minority state

00:40:16.420 that our best

00:40:17.380 doesn't tolerate

00:40:18.160 that diversity,

00:40:19.200 we celebrate

00:40:19.920 that diversity.

00:40:21.200 All of that's on the line

00:40:22.540 in terms of the assaults

00:40:23.860 of Trump

00:40:24.280 and Trumpism

00:40:25.360 and going after DEI,

00:40:27.120 ESG,

00:40:27.800 CRT,

00:40:28.400 anything with three letters,

00:40:29.760 this guy seems

00:40:30.420 to be assaulting.

00:40:31.720 And so what Proposition 50

00:40:33.680 represents

00:40:34.460 is an opportunity

00:40:36.420 to check his power.

00:40:38.520 It's about checks

00:40:39.240 and balances.

00:40:40.680 It's about the rule of law.

00:40:42.720 It's about co-equal branches

00:40:43.980 of government.

00:40:45.220 And that's why

00:40:45.600 I'm so grateful to you

00:40:46.760 and so many others

00:40:47.780 that are tuning in

00:40:48.740 so that we can tune up

00:40:50.100 an understanding

00:40:51.320 of what's at stake

00:40:52.060 with this initiative.

00:40:53.240 Let's talk about this event today

00:40:54.920 before we go.

00:40:56.420 National Voter Registration Day,

00:40:58.140 so it has an added

00:40:59.180 layer of significance.

00:41:00.460 The website is

00:41:02.020 yeson50live.com.

00:41:04.320 Everybody go there.

00:41:05.200 I'm going to make

00:41:05.740 a donation after this

00:41:07.340 at yeson50live.com.

00:41:09.820 But you bringing together

00:41:11.060 all of these people here

00:41:12.740 in new media,

00:41:14.020 bringing members of Congress

00:41:15.280 and senators

00:41:16.000 and leaders together,

00:41:17.860 rallying together

00:41:18.860 to support our democracy

00:41:21.120 and to support

00:41:21.960 this existential threat.

00:41:23.260 How big of a deal

00:41:24.060 is this event today, Governor?

00:41:25.460 I think it's huge

00:41:26.380 because you guys

00:41:26.980 have done one thing

00:41:27.840 that I think we all need.

00:41:29.080 I need.

00:41:29.460 I mean, I imagine

00:41:30.840 you might need.

00:41:31.560 And that's some optimism,

00:41:33.280 some hope.

00:41:34.520 You know, I think

00:41:35.340 that we show up

00:41:35.960 for each other.

00:41:36.520 We're showing up

00:41:37.100 for a cause greater

00:41:38.320 than ourselves.

00:41:39.080 And as Beto was saying,

00:41:40.000 249 years of these

00:41:42.560 enduring principles

00:41:43.480 and values

00:41:44.080 of the best of Roman Republic

00:41:45.840 and Greek democracy

00:41:46.820 about to celebrate

00:41:47.600 the 250th anniversary

00:41:48.960 of our founding fathers.

00:41:50.420 It's all on the line.

00:41:51.400 It's all at stake.

00:41:52.200 And I think for me

00:41:53.660 to see everybody

00:41:55.460 show up like this,

00:41:56.700 that's incredible.

00:41:57.700 It gives me a sense

00:41:58.380 of optimism

00:41:59.080 and hopefulness.

00:42:00.800 And what I think

00:42:02.080 it also represents

00:42:03.040 from a very organized

00:42:04.580 perspective

00:42:05.240 is that we're not

00:42:06.300 just engaging

00:42:07.160 in platform thinking,

00:42:09.240 we're also engaging

00:42:10.260 in platform doing,

00:42:12.140 that we're actually

00:42:13.280 manifesting something here.

00:42:15.020 We have something

00:42:15.580 to be for.

00:42:17.020 We have work to do.

00:42:18.320 We have agency.

00:42:19.240 And what I think

00:42:19.840 this whole engagement

00:42:21.840 tonight represents

00:42:23.040 is the power of the people

00:42:25.640 in a democracy.

00:42:27.500 Brandeis said it best.

00:42:28.600 The most important office

00:42:29.540 is office of citizen,

00:42:31.220 active, not inert citizenship.

00:42:33.140 And it's people

00:42:34.120 making contributions,

00:42:35.500 three, five, ten dollars,

00:42:37.120 making contributions

00:42:38.080 by going out there

00:42:39.620 and volunteering

00:42:40.340 that will be the story

00:42:43.380 that will define

00:42:44.600 not just the success

00:42:45.520 of Prop 50,

00:42:46.620 but the story

00:42:47.700 that I think

00:42:48.200 will define this moment

00:42:49.280 in the history books

00:42:50.660 as we move

00:42:51.520 into the 250th anniversary.

00:42:53.460 Governor, thank you

00:42:54.180 for what you're doing.

00:42:55.080 Great conversation.

00:42:56.460 I echo what everyone else

00:42:57.600 said about you,

00:42:58.340 Brian Tyler Cohen.

00:42:59.560 You gave me that

00:43:00.140 very nice intro,

00:43:01.380 but you're the OG

00:43:02.320 in YouTube

00:43:03.560 and you've paved the way

00:43:04.740 for a lot of people like us.

00:43:06.140 And thank you

00:43:06.940 for putting this event together,

00:43:08.740 Brian.

00:43:09.380 Governor, thanks for

00:43:10.300 fighting for us.

00:43:11.060 You give us all hope

00:43:12.760 to see the governor,

00:43:14.920 the largest state

00:43:15.820 in the United States,

00:43:17.020 pushing back,

00:43:17.900 fighting for democracy.

00:43:19.300 Thanks for everything

00:43:19.860 you're doing, Governor.

00:43:20.920 Appreciate it, brother.

00:43:21.640 Thank you, guys.

00:43:22.680 Well, thank you both.

00:43:23.740 And look, this is, again,

00:43:25.240 to echo what Ben

00:43:26.320 and the governor were saying,

00:43:27.140 this is what it looks like

00:43:28.080 when you actually put words

00:43:29.140 behind action.

00:43:30.520 For so long,

00:43:31.620 Democrats have been begging

00:43:32.480 for not just strongly

00:43:33.680 worded letters,

00:43:34.500 but for actual real action,

00:43:36.440 for actual push

00:43:37.980 to what we're saying.

00:43:39.140 And that's what we're seeing

00:43:39.820 right here in California.

00:43:41.000 But that's just half the battle.

00:43:42.640 This thing is going to be

00:43:43.400 a referendum on the ballot,

00:43:44.820 but California is a huge state

00:43:46.440 and it's going to require

00:43:47.500 getting the word out

00:43:48.260 to so many people

00:43:49.260 and Republicans

00:43:50.140 are already doing it.

00:43:51.120 The day that this thing

00:43:52.160 was announced,

00:43:52.780 we had Republican operatives

00:43:54.940 sending mailers out

00:43:55.900 to every single address

00:43:56.860 in the state.

00:43:57.420 I know that if you live

00:43:58.060 in California,

00:43:58.780 you've seen them.

00:43:59.960 You've gotten those mailers

00:44:01.020 in your mailbox

00:44:01.640 saying to vote,

00:44:02.400 no, we have to push back.

00:44:04.380 This is our way to protect

00:44:05.580 not just the future

00:44:06.640 of the Democratic Party,

00:44:07.420 but the future of democracy itself.

00:44:08.920 And that relies on being able

00:44:10.080 to reach all of those people

00:44:11.680 who aren't paying attention

00:44:12.540 to politics on a daily basis,

00:44:13.960 which to be honest,

00:44:15.360 sounds good for everybody's

00:44:16.960 mental health.

00:44:17.620 But the reality is

00:44:18.680 that it's going to take

00:44:19.360 a lot of push

00:44:20.780 from all of us

00:44:21.900 who are paying attention

00:44:22.780 to make sure that people

00:44:23.420 know what's going on.

00:44:24.300 So we are getting very close

00:44:26.340 to our $200,000 mark,

00:44:28.240 which is a huge milestone.

00:44:29.280 But please,

00:44:30.280 if you haven't yet donated,

00:44:31.240 go to yeson50live.com.

00:44:33.640 Okay, I'm so excited

00:44:34.880 to be able to introduce

00:44:35.880 our two next guests.

00:44:37.440 We have Joe Carducci

00:44:38.500 and Senator Alex Padilla.

00:44:42.020 I'm sure you've heard

00:44:43.180 Jojo from JERS.

00:44:45.320 She's worked so hard

00:44:46.220 to make herself

00:44:46.700 a household name.

00:44:47.800 I'm also very proud

00:44:48.740 to be from the same

00:44:49.920 home state as her,

00:44:51.180 the state of New Jersey,

00:44:52.100 where it should be known

00:44:53.340 that we have the best pizza

00:44:54.600 in the country.

00:44:56.220 And Senator Padilla,

00:44:58.080 U.S. Senator from right here,

00:44:59.280 in my new home state

00:45:00.620 of California.

00:45:02.020 This is the senator

00:45:02.780 who made a name for himself

00:45:03.860 this year by putting

00:45:04.840 his body on the line

00:45:05.860 when he was arrested

00:45:06.500 by the Trump administration

00:45:07.500 for daring speak out.

00:45:09.140 And that's exactly

00:45:09.680 the kind of forward-leaning posture

00:45:12.300 that we want to see

00:45:12.940 from our elected officials.

00:45:13.920 So I'll let you guys

00:45:15.100 take it from here.

00:45:16.680 Well, first of all,

00:45:17.680 thank you, Brian.

00:45:19.120 I did not know

00:45:20.300 that you were from

00:45:21.220 the Garden State,

00:45:22.520 the greatest state

00:45:23.320 in the country,

00:45:24.000 no offense.

00:45:25.440 I'm just kidding.

00:45:26.320 I'm here from New Jersey,

00:45:27.980 participating in this event

00:45:29.580 for Prop 50 in California

00:45:32.160 because I understand

00:45:33.740 that the stakes

00:45:34.580 of this moment

00:45:35.100 are much greater

00:45:35.740 than the best state

00:45:36.960 on the planet,

00:45:37.580 which is, of course,

00:45:38.240 New Jersey.

00:45:38.740 Again, no offense.

00:45:39.960 But Senator Padilla,

00:45:40.860 it is wonderful

00:45:41.680 to see you again

00:45:43.000 under slightly better

00:45:44.660 circumstances

00:45:45.320 than the last time

00:45:46.180 we spoke.

00:45:47.660 But I just wanted,

00:45:48.500 yeah, I'm happy

00:45:49.380 to see your face.

00:45:50.060 I feel like we bonded

00:45:51.320 a little bit

00:45:52.160 in a unique way

00:45:54.840 through some tragedy

00:45:56.160 that happened last week.

00:45:58.020 But I wanted to just start

00:45:59.800 with something

00:46:00.420 that is important to me,

00:46:02.580 a thread that ties us together,

00:46:04.920 which is that we are

00:46:05.780 the children of immigrants.

00:46:07.400 And the governor just said,

00:46:09.340 in this country,

00:46:10.340 we celebrate diversity.

00:46:12.540 Your parents, my dad,

00:46:14.900 they believed

00:46:15.480 in the American dream.

00:46:17.200 They worked toward that end.

00:46:18.680 They participated

00:46:19.400 in achieving that.

00:46:21.760 Donald Trump

00:46:22.580 and MAGA Republicans,

00:46:24.000 they don't appreciate

00:46:25.760 that diversity.

00:46:27.980 On the other hand,

00:46:29.440 quite the contrary.

00:46:31.060 They're trying to attack it.

00:46:32.780 And so I want to start there,

00:46:34.640 if you might,

00:46:35.580 with what's at stake

00:46:37.060 right now

00:46:37.820 for the American dream,

00:46:39.260 for people like your parents,

00:46:40.640 people like my dad.

00:46:42.040 Sure.

00:46:42.600 No, Jojo,

00:46:43.400 great to be back with you.

00:46:45.040 And I mean,

00:46:45.540 I think a couple of things.

00:46:46.600 Why does Donald Trump

00:46:48.020 have it in for California

00:46:49.100 so badly?

00:46:50.140 It's because California

00:46:51.840 is like the opposite

00:46:53.640 of his vision.

00:46:54.940 California is not

00:46:55.820 the most populous state

00:46:56.780 in the nation,

00:46:57.460 the most diverse state

00:46:58.380 in the nation,

00:46:58.960 home to more immigrants

00:46:59.900 than any state in the nation.

00:47:02.080 And as you've been hearing,

00:47:04.220 California has grown

00:47:04.860 to become the fourth largest

00:47:06.100 economy in the world.

00:47:07.580 And it's not a coincidence.

00:47:08.900 That doesn't just,

00:47:09.800 that doesn't happen

00:47:10.440 despite the immigrant population.

00:47:13.040 It's because

00:47:13.580 of the immigrant population,

00:47:15.280 the contributions

00:47:16.080 of so many immigrants

00:47:18.320 as workers,

00:47:19.420 of course,

00:47:19.880 but also as consumers

00:47:21.180 and as entrepreneurs.

00:47:24.440 But, you know,

00:47:25.440 because of,

00:47:26.540 and there's a lot to say

00:47:27.280 about Donald Trump here,

00:47:28.340 but, you know,

00:47:29.360 California is the embodiment

00:47:31.260 of what the future

00:47:32.540 of the country is,

00:47:33.560 increasingly diverse,

00:47:34.920 and we should be

00:47:35.680 increasingly inclusive.

00:47:37.240 We want to embrace

00:47:37.800 the economic

00:47:38.800 and cultural impact of it.

00:47:41.140 But what does Donald Trump do?

00:47:42.080 He attacks California.

00:47:43.660 This mass deportation agenda

00:47:45.400 that he has started

00:47:46.020 his administration with

00:47:47.640 is centered

00:47:48.740 not just in California,

00:47:49.700 but my hometown

00:47:50.460 of Los Angeles.

00:47:52.300 So imagine how offended

00:47:53.340 I feel

00:47:54.180 as a proud son

00:47:55.460 of immigrants

00:47:56.100 when, like,

00:47:57.060 I knew my dad

00:47:57.780 who worked for 40 years

00:47:58.780 as a short-order cook.

00:47:59.840 My mom worked

00:48:00.380 for 40 years

00:48:01.440 cleaning houses

00:48:02.720 so that my brother

00:48:03.580 and my sister

00:48:04.060 and I can

00:48:04.440 get a good education.

00:48:06.080 That was it.

00:48:06.680 And achieve

00:48:07.180 the American dream.

00:48:08.100 And that's the same story

00:48:09.140 of millions of immigrants

00:48:10.340 throughout California

00:48:11.580 and throughout the country.

00:48:12.700 And Trump

00:48:13.840 and Republicans

00:48:14.640 just can't handle it.

00:48:17.060 So instead of trying

00:48:17.780 to build

00:48:18.600 on that success

00:48:19.400 and that strength,

00:48:20.140 they try to demonize it

00:48:21.660 and attack it.

00:48:22.820 So it's one

00:48:23.640 of the many arguments

00:48:24.520 why we need

00:48:25.000 to support Proposition 50

00:48:26.520 because Prop 50

00:48:28.000 has been

00:48:28.500 the most powerful

00:48:29.400 tool presented

00:48:31.180 to us

00:48:31.840 to rein in

00:48:33.120 this out-of-control

00:48:34.200 administration.

00:48:35.520 They want to steal

00:48:36.160 next November's election

00:48:37.180 by rigging it

00:48:38.320 before it even starts.

00:48:39.660 But California

00:48:40.340 is going to step up

00:48:41.320 and push back

00:48:42.520 by approving

00:48:43.340 Prop 50

00:48:43.920 this November.

00:48:45.200 I appreciate

00:48:46.800 the fight

00:48:47.680 coming from California

00:48:48.860 very, very much.

00:48:50.360 This is obviously

00:48:51.400 the moment

00:48:52.480 to be meeting

00:48:53.640 and the governor

00:48:55.220 and all of your leadership

00:48:56.640 are meeting

00:48:57.080 this moment

00:48:57.680 extraordinarily.

00:48:59.500 And so I want

00:49:00.080 to speak to your point

00:49:01.200 about what Republicans

00:49:02.240 are doing

00:49:02.780 and ask you

00:49:03.780 why are they trying

00:49:06.140 to cheat

00:49:06.640 ahead of the midterms

00:49:07.800 in 2026?

00:49:08.940 I mean,

00:49:09.140 what do they know?

00:49:10.080 Look,

00:49:11.440 my point of view

00:49:13.240 both as a Californian

00:49:14.520 and as a member

00:49:15.640 of the Senate here,

00:49:16.900 to me it's pretty obvious.

00:49:18.960 You know,

00:49:19.120 under normal circumstances,

00:49:21.080 a party in power

00:49:22.320 would be proud

00:49:23.680 of their legislative

00:49:24.540 accomplishments

00:49:25.260 and they'd run

00:49:26.560 on their record

00:49:27.700 in the midterms

00:49:29.080 to try to stay in power.

00:49:30.700 That's not what's

00:49:31.420 happening here.

00:49:32.420 They know how

00:49:33.240 not just unpopular

00:49:34.720 but damaging

00:49:35.740 their record

00:49:36.820 has been.

00:49:37.980 Right?

00:49:38.180 This destruction

00:49:39.960 of confidence

00:49:40.800 in the judiciary,

00:49:42.140 the federal government

00:49:43.180 as we know it,

00:49:44.640 there are cuts

00:49:45.060 to health care,

00:49:46.420 there are cuts

00:49:46.800 to nutrition

00:49:47.320 assistance programs,

00:49:48.920 there are tax breaks

00:49:49.740 for billionaires,

00:49:50.620 on and on and on.

00:49:52.640 The only hope

00:49:53.820 they have

00:49:54.260 to hold on

00:49:54.740 to power next year

00:49:55.740 is to rig the election

00:49:57.400 before it even starts.

00:49:58.860 So before I even

00:49:59.560 get to redistricting,

00:50:01.000 you know,

00:50:01.220 whether it's legislation

00:50:02.120 they've introduced

00:50:02.940 or the executive orders

00:50:04.500 to make it harder

00:50:05.820 for eligible Americans

00:50:07.060 to register to vote,

00:50:08.480 to stay registered

00:50:09.820 to vote,

00:50:10.580 or to actually

00:50:11.520 cast your ballot,

00:50:12.400 that's just part of it.

00:50:13.860 The Department of Justice,

00:50:15.180 and I'm a member

00:50:15.640 of the judiciary,

00:50:16.820 I've seen it up

00:50:17.560 close and personal,

00:50:18.800 they're politicizing

00:50:19.720 the Department of Justice

00:50:21.040 now,

00:50:22.300 just like they did

00:50:22.880 in the first Trump term,

00:50:23.980 trying to obtain

00:50:24.760 all the personal information

00:50:26.500 of voters

00:50:28.000 in select states

00:50:29.220 to try to tee up

00:50:30.520 the purging

00:50:31.240 of voter rolls.

00:50:32.500 And on top of that,

00:50:34.340 this redistricting push,

00:50:35.660 I mean,

00:50:35.820 I don't know about you,

00:50:36.560 but when I first saw

00:50:37.740 the news report

00:50:38.460 of Trump calling

00:50:39.780 Governor Abbott in Texas

00:50:40.820 saying five more

00:50:41.780 Republican seats,

00:50:44.620 it sounded a lot like

00:50:45.860 when Donald Trump

00:50:46.840 called the Secretary of State

00:50:47.920 in Georgia in 2020

00:50:49.040 when he said

00:50:50.020 find me 11,000 more votes.

00:50:52.940 They'll do anything

00:50:54.080 to cling to power.

00:50:55.840 That's what this is.

00:50:57.420 And so,

00:50:58.120 as I try to sum it up

00:50:59.440 to folks

00:50:59.820 when I'm walking around,

00:51:01.240 you know,

00:51:02.140 if you care about

00:51:02.780 reigning in this administration

00:51:04.120 that has overreached,

00:51:05.840 violated due process

00:51:06.960 in the Constitution

00:51:07.800 with their mass deportation agenda,

00:51:10.240 if you care about

00:51:11.320 the rising cost

00:51:12.400 of groceries and housing

00:51:13.600 and health care

00:51:14.220 and energy

00:51:14.660 and so much more

00:51:15.600 and you want to do

00:51:16.860 something about it,

00:51:17.640 you've got to support

00:51:18.480 Prop 50.

00:51:19.620 And if you care

00:51:20.040 about the rule of law

00:51:21.260 and, you know,

00:51:23.080 defending the principles

00:51:24.420 of our Constitution,

00:51:25.980 you have to support

00:51:27.280 Prop 50.

00:51:28.000 It's the biggest check.

00:51:29.940 It's the strongest guardrails

00:51:31.960 against this out-of-control

00:51:33.340 administration.

00:51:34.720 Yeah, I mean,

00:51:35.520 you've mentioned redistricting

00:51:36.820 and obviously this is what,

00:51:38.560 you know,

00:51:38.840 Prop 50 is about,

00:51:39.860 but Republicans will say,

00:51:41.880 oh, this is the Democrats

00:51:42.880 cheating,

00:51:43.860 et cetera, et cetera, right?

00:51:45.160 This is not at all

00:51:46.560 what the Democrats wanted.

00:51:48.220 This was triggered

00:51:49.260 by what they did in Texas.

00:51:51.380 The Democrats have been

00:51:52.240 the ones advocating

00:51:53.860 for fair maps.

00:51:55.280 Can you talk to that?

00:51:56.380 And what would you say

00:51:57.260 to a Republican who says,

00:51:58.520 oh, no,

00:51:58.840 this is the Democrats cheating

00:52:00.160 or people in the state

00:52:01.560 of California who think,

00:52:02.640 I can't vote yes on this

00:52:03.760 because this isn't fair?

00:52:05.780 Yeah, so be absolutely

00:52:07.160 crystal clear on this.

00:52:08.660 The only reason we are moving

00:52:11.280 on Proposition 50

00:52:12.440 is in response

00:52:13.680 to the abuse of power

00:52:16.440 in Texas.

00:52:18.000 You know, again,

00:52:19.300 at the behest of Donald Trump.

00:52:21.320 And by the way,

00:52:22.000 whether California

00:52:22.860 would have responded

00:52:23.880 to this or not,

00:52:25.400 Republicans were going

00:52:26.260 to stop in Texas.

00:52:27.700 They saw five potential seats

00:52:29.780 to pick up in Texas.

00:52:31.540 But as we've seen

00:52:32.380 in recent days and weeks,

00:52:34.640 they're also looking

00:52:35.900 to redistrict

00:52:36.680 and are redistricting

00:52:37.660 in Missouri

00:52:39.160 and in Indiana

00:52:40.880 and in Ohio.

00:52:42.260 They're going to stop

00:52:43.000 nowhere in their desperate

00:52:45.040 efforts to cling to power.

00:52:47.500 What California did

00:52:48.400 is start at the very beginning.

00:52:50.500 They're going into Texas

00:52:52.400 to try to rig the system.

00:52:54.360 As much as we support

00:52:55.720 independent redistricting

00:52:56.740 and all that stuff,

00:52:57.980 the stakes are simply too high.

00:52:59.740 The threat of this administration

00:53:01.280 and its impact,

00:53:04.420 the devastating impact

00:53:05.740 on working families

00:53:06.420 is too high.

00:53:07.360 We can't sit idly by

00:53:08.640 and just watch it happen.

00:53:09.620 We have to respond.

00:53:10.900 We have to fight back.

00:53:12.420 And so, yes,

00:53:13.580 it took a lot,

00:53:14.680 not just for the California legislature,

00:53:17.780 but Governor Newsom

00:53:18.540 and the California

00:53:19.180 congressional delegation

00:53:20.420 to support this new map

00:53:22.380 and take it to the voters

00:53:23.380 for the voters to decide

00:53:24.740 whether we push back

00:53:26.040 on Trump

00:53:26.580 with Proposition 50.

00:53:28.120 The early polls are good,

00:53:29.680 but as we've said earlier,

00:53:31.220 there's a lot of money

00:53:32.720 that doesn't like

00:53:33.340 what's happening

00:53:33.840 and there's going to be

00:53:35.020 no less than $150 million,

00:53:37.420 maybe $200 million

00:53:38.180 against Proposition 50,

00:53:40.640 including Speaker Mike Johnson's

00:53:42.680 packed money

00:53:43.480 coming into California

00:53:45.320 to try to defeat Proposition 50.

00:53:47.260 That's what we're up against.

00:53:48.480 So let me take this opportunity

00:53:49.860 for anybody tuning in,

00:53:52.080 however you can support.

00:53:53.360 If you can't support,

00:53:54.440 we need your support

00:53:55.440 because we're up against

00:53:56.260 a lot of big money

00:53:57.580 who knows

00:53:58.560 that California's move here

00:54:01.200 is the big check

00:54:02.320 against the Trump agenda.

00:54:03.820 So we need your help.

00:54:05.480 Volunteerism and activism

00:54:06.560 on the ground

00:54:07.280 of financial contribution

00:54:08.660 if you can.

00:54:09.640 I'm Jorge Ramos.

00:54:11.200 And I'm Paula Ramos.

00:54:12.700 Together we're launching

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00:54:21.560 I would be

00:54:22.320 the first immigrant mayor

00:54:23.720 in generations,

00:54:24.960 but 40% of New Yorkers

00:54:26.300 were born outside

00:54:27.240 of this country.

00:54:28.180 Artists and activists,

00:54:29.400 I mean,

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00:54:31.920 I might personally lose hope.

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00:55:09.280 This is a tape-recorded statement.

00:55:11.780 The person being interviewed

00:55:12.960 is Krista Gale Pike.

00:55:16.020 This is in regards

00:55:16.840 to the death

00:55:18.120 of a Colleen Slemmer.

00:55:20.260 She started going off on me

00:55:22.040 when I hit her.

00:55:24.200 I just hit her

00:55:25.300 and hit her

00:55:25.760 and hit her

00:55:26.240 and hit her

00:55:26.720 On a cold January day

00:55:29.160 in 1995,

00:55:31.380 18-year-old Krista Pike

00:55:32.860 killed 19-year-old

00:55:34.420 Colleen Slemmer

00:55:35.300 in the woods

00:55:36.240 of Knoxville, Tennessee.

00:55:38.160 Since her conviction,

00:55:39.500 Krista has been sitting

00:55:40.440 on death row.

00:55:41.700 The state has asked

00:55:42.360 for an execution date

00:55:43.240 for Krista.

00:55:44.760 We let people

00:55:45.820 languish in prison

00:55:46.940 for decades,

00:55:48.360 raising questions

00:55:49.120 about who we consider

00:55:50.280 fundamentally unrestorable.

00:55:52.640 How does someone prove

00:55:53.620 that they deserve

00:55:54.440 to live?

00:55:55.940 We are starting

00:55:56.620 the recording now.

00:55:57.900 Please state

00:55:58.420 your first

00:55:58.960 and last name.

00:56:01.740 Krista Pike.

00:56:03.360 Listen to

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00:56:14.600 My name is Ed.

00:56:15.660 Everyone say,

00:56:16.080 hello, Ed.

00:56:16.680 Hello, Ed.

00:56:18.160 From a very rural

00:56:19.000 background myself,

00:56:19.820 my dad is a farmer

00:56:20.660 and my mom is a cousin,

00:56:22.280 so, like,

00:56:22.880 it's not like...

00:56:24.280 What do you get

00:56:24.900 when a true crime producer

00:56:26.160 walks into a comedy club?

00:56:28.300 I know it sounds like

00:56:29.200 the start of a bad joke,

00:56:30.340 but that really was

00:56:31.260 my reality

00:56:31.920 nine years ago.

00:56:33.120 I just normally

00:56:33.740 do straight stand-up,

00:56:34.840 but this is a bit different.

00:56:37.120 On stage

00:56:38.120 stood a comedian

00:56:38.960 with a story

00:56:39.940 that no one

00:56:40.780 expected to hear.

00:56:42.320 On the 22nd of July

00:56:43.260 2015,

00:56:45.240 a 23-year-old man

00:56:46.260 had killed

00:56:47.600 his family.

00:56:51.100 And then

00:56:51.820 he came to my house.

00:56:55.040 So what do you get

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00:56:57.520 walks into a comedy club?

00:56:59.660 A new podcast

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00:57:14.160 All I know

00:57:19.120 is what I've been told,

00:57:20.820 and that to have truth

00:57:21.940 is a whole lie.

00:57:23.440 For almost a decade,

00:57:25.480 the murder

00:57:25.900 of an 18-year-old girl

00:57:27.580 from a small town

00:57:29.000 in Graves County,

00:57:30.540 Kentucky,

00:57:31.460 went unsolved.

00:57:32.780 Until a local homemaker,

00:57:34.680 a journalist,

00:57:35.560 and a handful of girls

00:57:36.800 came forward

00:57:37.820 with a story.

00:57:39.080 I'm telling you,

00:57:40.140 we know Quincy killed her.

00:57:41.640 We know.

00:57:42.560 A story that law enforcement

00:57:44.240 used to convict

00:57:45.420 six people,

00:57:46.900 and that got

00:57:47.420 The Citizen Investigator

00:57:48.880 on national TV.

00:57:50.660 Through sheer persistence

00:57:52.040 and nerve,

00:57:53.040 this Kentucky housewife

00:57:54.260 helped give justice

00:57:55.560 to Jessica Curran.

00:57:57.520 My name is Maggie Freeling.

00:57:59.320 I'm a Pulitzer Prize-winning

00:58:00.620 journalist,

00:58:01.600 producer,

00:58:02.580 and I wouldn't be here

00:58:04.420 if the truth

00:58:05.500 were that easy to find.

00:58:07.880 I did not know her,

00:58:08.820 and I did not kill her.

00:58:10.060 Or rape,

00:58:10.540 or burn,

00:58:11.220 or any of that other stuff

00:58:12.200 that y'all said it.

00:58:13.260 They literally made me say

00:58:14.380 that I took a match

00:58:15.180 and struck

00:58:15.700 and threw it on her.

00:58:16.880 They made me say

00:58:17.620 that I poured gas on her.

00:58:21.040 From Lava for Good,

00:58:22.560 this is Graves County,

00:58:24.660 a show about

00:58:25.620 just how far

00:58:26.960 our legal system

00:58:27.980 will go

00:58:28.560 in order

00:58:29.380 to find someone

00:58:30.420 to blame.

00:58:31.700 America,

00:58:32.220 y'all better

00:58:32.540 work the hell up.

00:58:33.820 Bad things

00:58:34.640 happen

00:58:35.180 to good people

00:58:37.180 in small towns.

00:58:40.540 Listen to Graves County

00:58:41.980 in the Bone Valley feed

00:58:43.500 on the iHeartRadio app,

00:58:45.260 Apple Podcasts,

00:58:46.320 or wherever

00:58:46.940 you get your podcasts.

00:58:48.880 And to binge

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00:58:54.420 What would you do

00:59:02.740 if one bad decision

00:59:03.960 forced you to choose

00:59:05.020 between a maximum

00:59:06.000 security prison

00:59:07.120 or the most brutal

00:59:08.360 boot camp

00:59:08.960 designed to be

00:59:09.960 hell on earth?

00:59:11.160 Unfortunately for

00:59:11.960 Mark Lombardo,

00:59:13.020 this was the choice

00:59:14.100 he faced.

00:59:15.200 He said,

00:59:15.760 you are a number,

00:59:17.360 a New York State number,

00:59:18.620 and we own you.

00:59:20.060 Shock incarceration,

00:59:21.740 also known as boot camps,

00:59:23.200 are short-term,

00:59:24.640 highly regimented

00:59:25.580 correctional programs

00:59:26.660 that mimic

00:59:27.560 military basic training.

00:59:29.640 These programs

00:59:30.640 aim to provide

00:59:31.620 a shock of prison life,

00:59:33.420 emphasizing strict discipline,

00:59:35.360 physical training,

00:59:36.700 hard labor,

00:59:37.820 and rehabilitation programs.

00:59:40.020 Mark had one chance

00:59:41.040 to complete this program

00:59:42.180 and had no idea

00:59:43.700 of the hell awaiting him

00:59:45.020 the next six months.

00:59:46.480 The first night

00:59:47.240 was so overwhelming,

00:59:48.760 and you don't know

00:59:49.620 who's next to you.

00:59:50.740 And we didn't know

00:59:51.480 what to expect

00:59:52.020 in the morning.

00:59:52.480 Nobody tells you anything.

00:59:54.120 Listen to Shock Incarceration

00:59:55.540 on the iHeartRadio app,

00:59:57.160 Apple Podcasts,

00:59:58.220 or wherever you get

00:59:59.200 your podcasts.

01:00:01.920 With no further ado,

01:00:03.440 I know that a lot of folks

01:00:04.220 are very excited,

01:00:05.080 so I'm going to introduce

01:00:06.120 our next guest here.

01:00:07.280 We've got Tim Fullerton.

01:00:09.120 Tim helped start this show,

01:00:10.540 I should note,

01:00:11.560 first and foremost.

01:00:12.340 So a big shout-out to Tim.

01:00:13.980 He also had a practice session,

01:00:17.860 we can say,

01:00:18.800 in launching White Dudes for Harris,

01:00:20.760 helped that gain prominence,

01:00:21.920 and he served many roles

01:00:22.960 in the Obama administration.

01:00:24.200 And importantly,

01:00:25.000 he started the Find Out podcast,

01:00:27.200 which I'm a huge fan of.

01:00:28.320 And we need more folks

01:00:29.280 in independent media,

01:00:30.920 so I'm grateful that Tim

01:00:31.860 and his co-hosts

01:00:32.660 have jumped into this space.

01:00:34.240 And now we've got members

01:00:35.380 of the West Wing cast,

01:00:36.760 Dulé Hill and Martin Sheen.

01:00:38.480 I know that for so many people

01:00:40.420 watching right now,

01:00:41.320 you both are the platonic ideal

01:00:43.280 of what politics can be.

01:00:44.520 And most importantly,

01:00:46.460 thank you for staying engaged

01:00:47.900 and involved,

01:00:48.560 because it would be really easy

01:00:50.280 to just show up on set,

01:00:53.140 do your thing,

01:00:54.060 make a great show,

01:00:55.420 and kind of step back

01:00:56.920 and fall back into

01:00:57.900 just having been an actor.

01:00:59.480 But the fact is

01:01:00.180 that you're using your voices now

01:01:02.160 to stay engaged

01:01:04.360 in this political process.

01:01:05.520 And so on behalf of myself

01:01:07.040 and everybody watching,

01:01:07.960 thank you so much for doing that.

01:01:09.360 And looking forward

01:01:10.280 to the conversation here.

01:01:11.480 Yeah, it's my pleasure to be here.

01:01:16.300 I think it's important

01:01:17.780 for all of us

01:01:18.380 to actively stay involved

01:01:20.080 in any way that we can,

01:01:22.140 because when we take

01:01:22.840 our eye off the ball,

01:01:23.840 we take our eye off the prize,

01:01:25.200 then you see what can happen.

01:01:28.680 And it can happen swiftly.

01:01:30.700 You know, when I saw the results

01:01:32.060 of the election last year,

01:01:33.860 I knew that there would be challenges.

01:01:36.060 I knew that there would be

01:01:37.780 an assault on our liberties,

01:01:39.320 but I could not fathom

01:01:40.800 what I'm seeing now.

01:01:43.160 It really breaks my heart

01:01:44.960 when I see our loss of humanity.

01:01:47.460 I see how we are going

01:01:49.540 to the extremes

01:01:50.600 and we are lacking the ability

01:01:53.740 to find common ground.

01:01:55.980 I mean, we are one year in

01:01:56.920 and these are trying times.

01:01:58.920 And the only way that I feel

01:01:59.680 that we can even have

01:02:00.560 some type of backstop

01:02:01.820 to this onslaught

01:02:03.740 that is happening

01:02:04.440 is by winning in the midterms.

01:02:07.440 And I truly believe,

01:02:08.400 I say to myself often,

01:02:09.640 and I say to others,

01:02:10.400 that democracy works

01:02:11.440 when we, the people, work it.

01:02:13.380 That's how democracy stays alive.

01:02:16.760 And the only way that we can,

01:02:17.820 the best way for us

01:02:18.700 to fight this battle

01:02:19.740 for the soul of our nation,

01:02:21.000 for the character of who we are,

01:02:22.640 is at the ballot box.

01:02:24.480 That's what we have to do.

01:02:26.000 And I truly believe

01:02:27.300 that all things being equal,

01:02:29.920 if we were given the opportunity

01:02:32.480 to freely vote

01:02:34.420 the way we have,

01:02:35.960 then it would be a no-brainer

01:02:37.700 that the Democrats would win,

01:02:39.640 there would be balance

01:02:40.480 put back into the system

01:02:41.720 and that would be that.

01:02:44.080 But I do believe that also

01:02:45.020 that these extremist politicians

01:02:46.420 are very aware

01:02:47.780 that they cannot win

01:02:49.020 the battle on their merits.

01:02:50.440 They cannot win re-election

01:02:51.440 on their merits.

01:02:53.340 So the same people

01:02:54.160 who a few years ago

01:02:55.860 were crying about

01:02:56.860 a stolen election

01:02:57.660 and supported people

01:02:58.900 who really, you know,

01:03:01.800 acted in a way

01:03:03.220 that was not supportive

01:03:04.340 of our democracy

01:03:05.180 are now actually trying

01:03:07.000 to steal an election.

01:03:08.300 They're not even doing it

01:03:09.260 in the shadows.

01:03:10.240 They're being very overt

01:03:11.760 about what they are doing.

01:03:14.680 But what really, I guess,

01:03:17.040 affects me is that

01:03:17.820 they're taking away

01:03:18.900 the voice of the people.

01:03:20.440 It's one thing

01:03:21.180 if you were going to do

01:03:22.240 this redistricting plan

01:03:23.260 and you were going to

01:03:24.580 bring it to the citizens,

01:03:26.100 like bring it to the citizens.

01:03:27.260 That's how democracy works.

01:03:28.360 Let people talk about it.

01:03:29.720 If you were doing it that way

01:03:30.880 and then the people voted for that,

01:03:32.220 I would have nothing to say.

01:03:33.660 But the fact that they're doing it

01:03:34.920 in the dark rooms

01:03:35.800 of the legislatures

01:03:37.200 across the country,

01:03:37.960 at least in Texas now

01:03:38.720 and attempting to do it

01:03:39.840 in other places,

01:03:41.260 that is where I think

01:03:42.560 is a line too far.

01:03:43.560 And I appreciate

01:03:44.140 what the governor of California

01:03:45.780 is doing,

01:03:46.200 what the legislature here is doing

01:03:47.880 by giving us the power

01:03:49.220 to have our voice be heard,

01:03:50.520 by giving us a way

01:03:51.900 to be able to stand up

01:03:52.800 for ourselves

01:03:53.380 and by giving us a pathway

01:03:55.340 to be able to keep

01:03:56.900 our democracy alive.

01:03:58.240 And that's the main reason

01:03:59.500 why I'm here

01:03:59.960 is to play my part.

01:04:01.100 I always say

01:04:01.600 if I can get a billion people

01:04:02.680 to move a billion stones,

01:04:04.320 then we can move a mountain.

01:04:06.440 And I think in this situation,

01:04:07.620 if we can get people

01:04:09.040 to get involved,

01:04:10.340 to get engaged,

01:04:11.240 to support Yes on 50

01:04:13.120 here in California

01:04:14.220 and to use their voice

01:04:16.040 across the nation,

01:04:16.960 I believe the Democrats

01:04:18.420 will get back the House.

01:04:19.760 And at that point,

01:04:20.520 we can put some type of balance

01:04:21.940 back into the system

01:04:22.660 because we've seen

01:04:23.440 what happens

01:04:24.480 when there's imbalance.

01:04:25.560 And right now,

01:04:27.120 it is all out of whack

01:04:28.340 and there's too much extremism

01:04:29.500 happening in our politics

01:04:31.220 right now.

01:04:31.960 So that's why I'm here

01:04:33.660 and I'm always down

01:04:34.220 to support in any way I can.

01:04:35.840 Well, thank you, Dulé.

01:04:36.820 And it's all of that

01:04:37.920 was really well said.

01:04:38.780 And I think it's a really

01:04:39.520 important thing

01:04:40.060 that you mentioned,

01:04:40.800 which is,

01:04:41.460 you know,

01:04:41.680 Texas did this

01:04:42.500 behind closed doors.

01:04:43.720 You know,

01:04:43.960 the Trump administration

01:04:44.880 called Governor Abbott's team

01:04:47.060 and said,

01:04:47.720 I need you to find five seats.

01:04:49.640 He actually said it.

01:04:50.340 I need you to find

01:04:51.220 five seats for me.

01:04:52.420 And then they did this

01:04:53.460 unilaterally.

01:04:54.200 And I think that that's why

01:04:55.300 it's great that we're doing it

01:04:56.460 and the way Governor Newsom's

01:04:57.480 doing it is the way to do it

01:04:59.240 with a people-powered movement.

01:05:01.780 And so I want to turn,

01:05:04.040 so I think everybody

01:05:04.800 on this call

01:05:05.520 probably would prefer

01:05:06.900 our next guest

01:05:09.080 to actually be the president

01:05:10.600 of the United States

01:05:11.560 at this moment.

01:05:12.980 We have Martin Sheen,

01:05:14.980 who has, I think,

01:05:15.680 played a president twice

01:05:16.920 and has been a chief of staff once

01:05:18.620 and actually has been,

01:05:21.160 I believe,

01:05:22.320 arrested more times

01:05:23.540 than Donald Trump,

01:05:25.080 but for very good reasons,

01:05:27.180 standing up for what's right.

01:05:28.860 So, Martin Sheen,

01:05:30.000 thank you.

01:05:30.340 It is an honor to speak to you.

01:05:31.580 I would love to hear from you

01:05:32.700 about why voting yes

01:05:34.900 on Prop 50 is so important.

01:05:37.200 Well, thank you.

01:05:38.700 Can you hear me?

01:05:39.880 Yes, we can.

01:05:40.600 All right, good.

01:05:41.280 Yeah.

01:05:42.400 Renee left the room.

01:05:43.580 My engineer here

01:05:44.480 is my daughter

01:05:45.180 who runs this machine.

01:05:46.760 I mean, frankly,

01:05:48.240 I don't own a computer

01:05:51.460 and I don't even know

01:05:52.780 how to turn it on

01:05:53.520 if I did have one.

01:05:54.700 So I'm counting on my family.

01:05:56.920 Here is Dulé.

01:05:57.580 Well, no, it's good

01:05:59.340 to see you again, Dulé.

01:06:00.920 Thank you for including me

01:06:02.480 in this effort.

01:06:04.480 You know,

01:06:04.700 I've been involved

01:06:05.580 in supporting liberal politics,

01:06:09.320 democratic politics,

01:06:10.440 specifically with the possible

01:06:12.020 exception of John Lindsay

01:06:13.160 when he ran for mayor

01:06:14.280 in 1965 in New York.

01:06:16.080 I supported him,

01:06:17.000 but also that same year

01:06:18.260 I supported Bobby Kennedy

01:06:20.040 in his race

01:06:20.700 for the U.S. Senate.

01:06:22.340 And so this is not,

01:06:26.260 you know,

01:06:28.080 unusual for me

01:06:29.640 to be involved

01:06:30.440 in not just

01:06:33.900 in democratic politics,

01:06:34.980 but in peace

01:06:35.640 and social justice issues

01:06:37.280 because I can't

01:06:38.000 really separate them.

01:06:40.440 And what the governor

01:06:43.020 here in California

01:06:44.820 so bravely did

01:06:46.440 was to stand up

01:06:48.000 to the landslide

01:06:50.220 of effort

01:06:52.700 and lies

01:06:53.440 that are pulling

01:06:55.260 the Constitution

01:06:57.180 and the Bill of Rights

01:06:58.260 down the tubes.

01:07:00.460 And so our effort

01:07:01.660 is to put a stop to it

01:07:03.060 and to retrieve

01:07:03.980 as much as we possibly can.

01:07:05.600 I've never seen it

01:07:06.400 this bad in my life,

01:07:07.480 frankly.

01:07:08.300 And, you know,

01:07:08.780 we've been watching

01:07:09.480 the opposition

01:07:10.320 to Proposition 50

01:07:12.660 on every local channel

01:07:15.480 we have

01:07:16.040 and some of the streamers

01:07:19.480 as well

01:07:20.000 ads against us

01:07:21.660 voting

01:07:22.380 to vote no on 50.

01:07:24.120 And their reasoning

01:07:25.600 is that

01:07:26.280 it's undemocratic

01:07:28.120 to, you know,

01:07:29.740 jurymander here

01:07:30.620 and how dare we

01:07:31.580 do this,

01:07:32.520 why we should stand up

01:07:34.480 as patriotic Americans

01:07:35.700 and stop this.

01:07:36.340 There's not a mention

01:07:37.420 of Texas

01:07:38.580 or the possibility

01:07:39.700 of Missouri

01:07:40.340 or Ohio,

01:07:41.560 God forbid,

01:07:42.040 my home state

01:07:42.760 or Indiana.

01:07:44.360 And so we have to,

01:07:47.060 you know,

01:07:47.480 we have to,

01:07:48.540 we can't always

01:07:49.580 choose our fights.

01:07:51.160 Very often

01:07:51.900 we are called

01:07:54.540 to fight

01:07:55.340 in foreign lands

01:07:56.800 with unfamiliar ground.

01:08:01.700 And this is one

01:08:02.480 of those times

01:08:03.080 we've never been

01:08:03.860 in this situation before.

01:08:05.260 I've watched this

01:08:06.420 administration,

01:08:07.040 I've been watching

01:08:07.560 Kash Patel

01:08:08.560 being drilled

01:08:09.620 by our good senator

01:08:11.480 from, you know,

01:08:13.700 California today.

01:08:15.840 And I don't know

01:08:17.760 if any of you saw

01:08:18.660 the exchange

01:08:19.760 between the two of them

01:08:20.680 and made the national news.

01:08:22.700 But that level

01:08:25.680 of a head of the FBI

01:08:28.740 or any of the other agencies

01:08:30.860 is astonishing to me.

01:08:33.060 There is no possible way

01:08:35.200 that any of these people

01:08:36.520 at the head

01:08:37.080 of any of the cabinet

01:08:39.460 ministries that we have

01:08:41.900 right now

01:08:42.300 would ever make it

01:08:43.440 in any other administration

01:08:44.960 but Donald Trump.

01:08:46.480 And when they look

01:08:48.140 at each other

01:08:48.980 across the room

01:08:50.580 around the,

01:08:52.400 in the cabinet room

01:08:55.820 and they look at each other,

01:08:56.760 they don't see anyone

01:08:57.820 on the other side

01:08:58.760 back and forth

01:08:59.780 that is better

01:09:01.640 than they are,

01:09:02.420 is more heroic,

01:09:04.140 has more courage.

01:09:06.100 They, in a real sense,

01:09:07.680 I suspect they despise

01:09:08.920 each other

01:09:09.340 because there isn't anyone

01:09:10.540 on the other side

01:09:11.420 that is better

01:09:11.980 than they are.

01:09:12.740 And they are looking

01:09:13.580 at the worst reflection

01:09:14.840 of themselves.

01:09:15.740 And they are reflecting

01:09:17.060 the policy

01:09:18.200 that we're seeing

01:09:18.920 and that delay referred to

01:09:20.820 about the scandalous

01:09:23.260 mask bandits

01:09:25.800 grabbing people

01:09:27.880 off our streets

01:09:30.320 in public

01:09:31.240 and disappearing people.

01:09:35.040 And, you know,

01:09:35.820 so often when people are,

01:09:39.040 at least in normal times,

01:09:41.740 if you want to call it normal,

01:09:42.780 when people were deported,

01:09:44.060 they usually went back

01:09:45.060 to the country

01:09:45.640 they came from.

01:09:46.860 Now they're being sent,

01:09:47.900 basically they're being punished

01:09:50.480 because very often

01:09:51.560 they're being sent

01:09:52.180 to countries

01:09:53.060 that have,

01:09:55.400 you know,

01:09:57.120 they're foreign to them.

01:09:58.600 They don't have

01:09:59.000 the same language,

01:09:59.780 the same culture,

01:10:00.640 and they are thousands

01:10:02.060 and thousands of miles

01:10:03.100 away from their two homes.

01:10:04.740 So, and this has become normal.

01:10:07.080 We are,

01:10:07.500 what we're seeing,

01:10:08.520 we saw that,

01:10:09.220 you know,

01:10:09.680 the,

01:10:10.340 the,

01:10:11.100 when the Marines

01:10:13.260 marched through

01:10:14.520 our downtown park,

01:10:16.820 it was literally

01:10:17.600 a walk in the park.

01:10:18.500 There was no,

01:10:19.420 there was no reason

01:10:20.560 for them to be there.

01:10:21.580 It, it is a,

01:10:22.780 all that we're seeing

01:10:23.980 is a reflection

01:10:24.620 of a strong man

01:10:25.660 trying to get a grip

01:10:27.080 and it's slipping

01:10:28.000 out of his hands.

01:10:29.060 Chicago stood up

01:10:30.000 and said,

01:10:30.720 no, please don't come here

01:10:32.000 and we're going to give you

01:10:33.020 every reason why.

01:10:33.980 We don't need you.

01:10:35.280 We've got good law enforcement.

01:10:37.940 We've got good sanitation care here.

01:10:39.900 We've got good health care.

01:10:41.120 You're not needed here.

01:10:42.100 Please stay home.

01:10:43.040 Look after your families

01:10:44.020 and your,

01:10:44.440 your states.

01:10:45.120 And so we don't have any choice

01:10:47.940 but to,

01:10:48.560 to go in the direction

01:10:50.140 that we're being called

01:10:51.200 by Governor Newsom.

01:10:52.340 And I dare say,

01:10:53.360 and maybe I shouldn't say this

01:10:54.860 off him,

01:10:55.640 but I think this move

01:10:57.020 was his declaration

01:10:58.500 for the White House.

01:10:59.680 I think he's got to run

01:11:00.620 and more power to him

01:11:02.020 and he will have this

01:11:03.420 to his credit.

01:11:04.360 So I'm urging people

01:11:05.600 that to deal with what we have,

01:11:07.920 not with what we wish we had

01:11:10.320 or what we had in the past,

01:11:12.220 but what we have now,

01:11:13.880 which is this opportunity

01:11:15.660 to stop this basic thievery

01:11:22.020 that the,

01:11:23.420 you know,

01:11:24.160 Thomas Paine said,

01:11:25.360 the rights of man

01:11:26.080 are not given

01:11:26.840 by the gracious hand

01:11:28.320 of any state,

01:11:29.220 but must be protected therein.

01:11:31.480 And this is where we have to rise

01:11:34.100 and embrace our constitution

01:11:35.700 and bring us all together

01:11:36.880 with what really is at stake.

01:11:38.540 We're facing an out-of-control,

01:11:40.900 chaotic madman

01:11:43.120 who wakes up every day

01:11:45.320 and thinks of a different level

01:11:46.760 of chaos.

01:11:47.840 And his cabinet members,

01:11:52.420 all the people in his administration,

01:11:55.100 pick up the lot

01:11:55.880 and they carry it out

01:11:56.960 and they are all a reflection of him.

01:11:58.920 But I think we're better than that.

01:12:00.620 And I think we can build

01:12:02.160 a better future

01:12:02.980 and we can end the chaos

01:12:04.720 and end the despair

01:12:06.900 and the feelings

01:12:10.900 that we don't have any power left.

01:12:15.580 Look at Chicago.

01:12:17.040 Just this week,

01:12:18.440 the madman turned around

01:12:19.540 and said,

01:12:19.780 well,

01:12:19.900 I guess I'm not welcome there.

01:12:21.300 Let's find some.

01:12:21.900 Oh, Memphis.

01:12:22.700 Oh, yes,

01:12:23.140 of course,

01:12:23.560 Memphis.

01:12:24.100 I can do well there.

01:12:25.560 Well,

01:12:25.940 let's see what happens.

01:12:27.460 But what Governor Newsom

01:12:30.140 has done here in California

01:12:32.520 has struck a chord.

01:12:33.740 It has lit a candle

01:12:34.760 in this darkness.

01:12:36.100 And I pray and hope

01:12:38.480 that people see what's possible

01:12:40.200 and that we can turn this thing around.

01:12:43.340 And this is one very important issue

01:12:45.480 for the whole country

01:12:46.780 to look at and to follow.

01:12:48.760 Yes on 50.

01:12:50.980 Please, God.

01:12:52.020 Yes.

01:12:52.960 Well, well said.

01:12:54.660 And for those of you

01:12:56.200 who haven't donated yet,

01:12:57.400 which I don't know

01:12:58.020 how you could not donate

01:12:59.140 after listening to that,

01:13:01.340 please go to

01:13:02.520 yeson50live.com.

01:13:05.340 Push us over the 300,000 mark.

01:13:07.840 All of this money

01:13:08.680 is coming from individuals

01:13:10.620 giving 5, 10, 15, 20 dollars.

01:13:13.020 And we are fighting against people

01:13:14.440 who are writing

01:13:14.920 quarter million dollar checks,

01:13:15.960 million dollar checks.

01:13:17.080 We are going to win this.

01:13:18.360 And I think before we go,

01:13:21.600 I just want to ask

01:13:22.320 one more question

01:13:23.120 for both of you is

01:13:24.520 you gave us a little bit

01:13:26.720 of hope there.

01:13:27.900 And, you know,

01:13:28.620 I think the West Wing show

01:13:30.200 was something that

01:13:31.100 I watched in high school

01:13:32.480 and then ended up

01:13:33.580 going into politics

01:13:34.760 and worked in the Obama administration

01:13:36.060 and things like that.

01:13:37.960 Leave us with something,

01:13:38.980 you know,

01:13:39.220 Martin, you left us

01:13:40.020 with something really hopeful

01:13:40.920 and powerful.

01:13:41.860 Dulé, I'm going to give it to you

01:13:42.920 the last bit

01:13:43.520 because I know we've got to bounce

01:13:44.400 because we've got

01:13:45.260 Congressman Raskin

01:13:47.620 and Congresswoman Crockett on

01:13:48.640 who, by the way,

01:13:49.940 if you,

01:13:50.980 if we win this ballot initiative,

01:13:52.360 they're going to be

01:13:53.340 the ones subpoenaing

01:13:54.400 and they're the ones

01:13:55.120 that are going to be

01:13:55.500 asking questions

01:13:56.140 of the Trump administration.

01:13:57.300 So, Dulé,

01:13:57.620 I'm going to give you

01:13:58.040 the last word.

01:13:59.160 Well, I'll say this.

01:13:59.820 The power is in our hands.

01:14:01.580 You know,

01:14:01.940 there's nothing that

01:14:02.600 if a bunch of people

01:14:03.800 get together,

01:14:04.360 there's nothing

01:14:04.720 that we cannot overcome.

01:14:06.020 I said before,

01:14:06.680 a billion people

01:14:07.220 can move a billion stones

01:14:08.100 and we can move a mountain.

01:14:09.460 And even in these dark times

01:14:11.040 when the cloud

01:14:12.060 is hovering above

01:14:12.900 the clouds of extremism,

01:14:14.240 the clouds of hate,

01:14:15.100 the clouds of division,

01:14:16.320 just beyond those storm clouds,

01:14:17.800 the sun is always shining.

01:14:19.280 So if we could just

01:14:19.880 keep preaching,

01:14:20.880 keep putting one foot

01:14:21.660 in front of the other,

01:14:22.240 keep our eyes on the prize,

01:14:23.980 I know that we will

01:14:24.800 be victorious.

01:14:26.080 America always has.

01:14:27.200 America will now today

01:14:28.540 and America always will

01:14:29.580 in our tomorrow

01:14:30.220 as long as we are

01:14:31.220 staying engaged.

01:14:32.100 So let's vote.

01:14:34.080 I would only add

01:14:36.640 just very simply

01:14:39.080 that fear is useless.

01:14:41.020 Faith is necessary.

01:14:42.780 Yes, on 50.

01:14:45.800 Awesome.

01:14:46.300 We'll leave it there.

01:14:47.120 I was trying a bit.

01:14:47.860 The president has spoken.

01:14:48.480 I was going to say,

01:14:49.260 I was trying a bit

01:14:49.940 where I was standing.

01:14:50.660 You can't really see it

01:14:51.540 in the Zoom,

01:14:51.980 but I was about to say

01:14:52.680 in this building

01:14:53.200 when the president stands,

01:14:54.240 nobody sits.

01:14:57.320 Okay.

01:14:58.880 What's next?

01:15:00.520 That was also my nod to you.

01:15:02.580 Thank you.

01:15:03.060 Thank you all

01:15:03.680 for the time tonight.

01:15:05.260 We appreciate it.

01:15:06.460 Thank you so much.

01:15:07.480 Thank you so much.

01:15:10.020 All the best to everybody.

01:15:11.160 I'm Jorge Ramos.

01:15:12.640 And I'm Paula Ramos.

01:15:14.220 Together we're launching

01:15:15.100 The Moment,

01:15:16.200 a new podcast about

01:15:17.100 what it means to live

01:15:18.060 through a time

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01:15:19.620 as this one.

01:15:20.980 We sit down with politicians.

01:15:22.980 I would be

01:15:23.780 the first immigrant mayor

01:15:25.180 in generations,

01:15:26.400 but 40% of New Yorkers

01:15:27.740 were born outside

01:15:28.700 of this country.

01:15:29.640 Artists and activists.

01:15:30.860 I mean,

01:15:31.040 do you ever feel

01:15:31.980 demoralized?

01:15:33.600 I might personally

01:15:34.720 lose hope.

01:15:35.500 This individual

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01:16:11.040 This is a tape-recorded statement.

01:16:13.240 The person being interviewed

01:16:14.400 is Krista Gayle Pike.

01:16:17.480 This is in regards

01:16:18.300 to the death

01:16:19.560 of a Colleen Slimmer.

01:16:21.740 She started going off

01:16:23.100 on me

01:16:23.500 when I hit her.

01:16:25.660 I just hit her

01:16:26.760 and hit her

01:16:27.220 and hit her

01:16:27.700 and hit her.

01:16:28.660 On a cold

01:16:29.660 January day

01:16:30.620 in 1995,

01:16:32.720 18-year-old Krista Pike

01:16:34.320 killed 19-year-old

01:16:35.880 Colleen Slemmer

01:16:36.760 in the woods

01:16:37.700 of Knoxville, Tennessee.

01:16:39.620 Since her conviction,

01:16:40.940 Krista has been

01:16:41.500 sitting on death row.

01:16:43.140 The state has asked

01:16:43.820 for an execution date

01:16:44.680 for Krista.

01:16:46.180 We let people

01:16:47.280 languish in prison

01:16:48.400 for decades,

01:16:49.820 raising questions

01:16:50.560 about who we consider

01:16:51.720 fundamentally unrestorable.

01:16:54.100 How does someone

01:16:54.680 prove that they

01:16:55.400 deserve to live?

01:16:57.140 We are starting

01:16:58.080 the recording now.

01:16:59.360 Please state

01:16:59.880 your first

01:17:00.420 and last name.

01:17:03.180 Krista Pike.

01:17:04.800 Listen to

01:17:05.680 Unrestorable Season 2,

01:17:07.540 Proof of Life,

01:17:08.500 on the iHeartRadio app,

01:17:10.340 Apple Podcasts,

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01:17:13.220 What do you get

01:17:26.340 when a true crime

01:17:27.120 producer walks

01:17:28.080 into a comedy club?

01:17:29.760 I know it sounds

01:17:30.500 like the start

01:17:31.040 of a bad joke,

01:17:31.800 but that really was

01:17:32.720 my reality

01:17:33.360 nine years ago.

01:17:34.220 I just normally

01:17:35.200 do straight stand-up,

01:17:36.320 but this is a bit

01:17:37.280 different.

01:17:37.740 On stage stood

01:17:39.880 a comedian

01:17:40.420 with a story

01:17:41.400 that no one

01:17:42.220 expected to hear.

01:17:43.860 On the 22nd of July

01:17:44.700 2015,

01:17:46.700 a 23-year-old man

01:17:47.700 had killed

01:17:49.040 his family.

01:17:52.420 And then

01:17:53.240 he came to my house.

01:17:56.360 So what do you get

01:17:57.780 when a true crime

01:17:58.500 producer walks

01:17:59.420 into a comedy club?

01:18:01.080 A new podcast

01:18:02.140 called Wisecrack,

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01:18:04.800 and murder

01:18:05.560 take center stage.

01:18:07.400 Available now.

01:18:10.300 Listen to Wisecrack

01:18:11.520 on the iHeartRadio app,

01:18:13.160 Apple Podcasts,

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01:18:19.500 All I know

01:18:20.580 is what I've been told,

01:18:22.200 and that to have

01:18:23.040 truth is a whole lie.

01:18:24.940 For almost a decade,

01:18:26.940 the murder

01:18:27.360 of an 18-year-old girl

01:18:29.040 from a small town

01:18:30.460 in Graves County,

01:18:31.980 Kentucky,

01:18:32.920 went unsolved.

01:18:33.840 until a local

01:18:35.220 homemaker,

01:18:36.120 a journalist,

01:18:36.980 and a handful of girls

01:18:38.240 came forward

01:18:39.280 with a story.

01:18:40.680 I'm telling you,

01:18:41.600 we know Quincy Hilder.

01:18:43.220 We know.

01:18:44.000 A story that law

01:18:45.280 enforcement used

01:18:46.200 to convict six people,

01:18:48.260 and that got

01:18:48.880 the citizen investigator

01:18:50.280 on national TV.

01:18:52.120 Through sheer

01:18:52.820 persistence and nerve,

01:18:54.480 this Kentucky housewife

01:18:55.700 helped give justice

01:18:57.060 to Jessica Curran.

01:18:58.800 My name is Maggie Freeling.

01:19:00.780 I'm a Pulitzer Prize-winning

01:19:02.080 journalist, producer,

01:19:04.040 and I wouldn't be here

01:19:05.860 if the truth

01:19:06.940 were that easy to find.

01:19:09.420 I did not know her

01:19:10.220 and I did not kill her.

01:19:11.520 Or rape,

01:19:12.060 or burn,

01:19:12.680 or any of that other stuff

01:19:13.660 that y'all said.

01:19:14.500 They literally made me say

01:19:15.840 that I took a match

01:19:16.640 and struck and threw it on her.

01:19:18.360 They made me say

01:19:19.080 that I poured gas on her.

01:19:22.520 From Lava for Good,

01:19:24.240 this is Graves County,

01:19:26.100 a show about just how far

01:19:28.420 our legal system will go

01:19:30.020 in order to find

01:19:31.600 someone to blame.

01:19:33.100 America,

01:19:33.660 y'all better work

01:19:34.200 the hell up.

01:19:35.260 Bad things happens

01:19:36.740 to good people

01:19:38.640 in small towns.

01:19:41.940 Listen to Graves County

01:19:43.440 in the Bone Valley feed

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01:19:55.880 Hola, it's Honey German

01:20:04.860 and my podcast

01:20:05.700 Gracias Come Again

01:20:06.680 is back.

01:20:07.940 This season,

01:20:08.520 we're going even deeper

01:20:09.440 into the world of music

01:20:10.560 and entertainment

01:20:11.260 with raw and honest conversations

01:20:12.920 with some of your favorite

01:20:13.860 Latin artists and celebrities.

01:20:15.700 You didn't have to audition?

01:20:16.760 No, I didn't audition.

01:20:17.860 I haven't auditioned

01:20:18.800 in like over 25 years.

01:20:20.500 Oh, wow.

01:20:21.260 That's a real G-talk right there.

01:20:22.800 Oh, yeah.

01:20:23.740 We've got some of the biggest actors,

01:20:25.460 musicians,

01:20:26.240 content creators,

01:20:27.060 and culture shifters

01:20:28.140 sharing their real stories

01:20:29.820 of failure and success.

01:20:31.700 Yo siento como que esto

01:20:33.000 es de mi destino.

01:20:34.340 You were destined

01:20:34.860 to be a star.

01:20:35.500 Eso es lo que yo quería hacer.

01:20:37.240 We talk all about

01:20:38.120 what's viral and trending

01:20:39.320 with a little bit of chismet,

01:20:40.860 a lot of laughs,

01:20:41.740 and those amazing vibras

01:20:42.900 you've come to expect.

01:20:44.100 And of course,

01:20:44.700 we'll explore deeper topics

01:20:46.040 dealing with identity,

01:20:47.360 struggles,

01:20:47.940 and all the issues

01:20:48.800 affecting our Latin community.

01:20:50.720 You feel like you get

01:20:51.380 a little whitewashed

01:20:52.420 because you have to do

01:20:53.100 the code switching?

01:20:54.200 I won't say whitewashed

01:20:55.160 because at the end of the day,

01:20:56.160 you know, I'm me.

01:20:56.600 But the whole pretending

01:20:58.780 and, you know,

01:20:59.660 it takes a toll on you.

01:21:00.700 Listen to the new season

01:21:01.680 of Gracias Come Again

01:21:02.480 as part of

01:21:03.060 My Cultura Podcast Network

01:21:04.380 on the iHeartRadio app,

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01:21:06.620 or wherever you get your podcasts.

01:21:07.940 Very excited to introduce

01:21:11.000 our next two.

01:21:11.880 We have Olivia Juliana.

01:21:13.960 I first learned of Olivia

01:21:15.820 when Matt Gaetz

01:21:17.180 tried to mock her online

01:21:19.160 and she used his mockery

01:21:21.020 to raise over $2 million

01:21:22.660 for abortion rights.

01:21:24.760 So what a badass move

01:21:26.420 and he's out of Congress

01:21:27.860 and so you got the last laugh.

01:21:29.940 Juliana is a political activist,

01:21:32.500 abortion rights advocate,

01:21:33.520 and a strategist from Texas,

01:21:35.260 so knows firsthand

01:21:36.780 about all the bullshit

01:21:37.920 that's going on right now.

01:21:39.340 She was formerly the director

01:21:40.360 of politics and government affairs

01:21:41.740 at Gen Z for Change

01:21:43.160 and she's a dear friend of mine.

01:21:44.780 Very happy to have you.

01:21:46.120 And of course,

01:21:47.040 a congresswoman

01:21:47.980 who needs no introduction.

01:21:50.000 Very excited to be introducing

01:21:51.460 Representative Jasmine Crockett.

01:21:53.200 She is one of my favorite people

01:21:55.140 in elected office.

01:21:56.540 She is a badass,

01:21:58.200 a fighter,

01:21:59.000 an attorney,

01:21:59.520 one of the most dynamic

01:22:00.940 and interesting

01:22:01.800 and engaging voices

01:22:03.140 that we have on the left.

01:22:04.800 Could not be more excited

01:22:05.780 to listen to your conversation here.

01:22:09.180 Thank you, Brian.

01:22:11.420 Well, Congresswoman Crockett,

01:22:13.900 it sure seems like everyone's

01:22:15.800 got something to say

01:22:16.660 about our home,

01:22:17.500 now don't they?

01:22:18.660 Yeah, for good reason though.

01:22:20.180 It is a hot-ass mess.

01:22:22.320 But I am so thankful

01:22:23.640 for California

01:22:24.440 and not only for the leadership,

01:22:27.040 real leadership

01:22:27.600 that we need in this moment,

01:22:28.780 but also for the people.

01:22:31.220 You know,

01:22:31.540 this is something

01:22:32.180 that is going to be

01:22:33.260 people-led,

01:22:34.120 people-driven

01:22:34.620 and ultimately

01:22:35.260 the people will decide.

01:22:37.080 And with everything

01:22:37.900 that I've seen

01:22:38.840 about the pushback

01:22:39.980 that we are delivering

01:22:41.120 to this regime

01:22:42.360 that is currently in power,

01:22:44.040 I am believing

01:22:44.780 that the people of California

01:22:46.320 are woke enough

01:22:48.060 to know

01:22:48.820 that it is time

01:22:50.160 to fight fire with fire.

01:22:52.060 And what that means

01:22:52.880 for those in the back

01:22:53.800 that don't understand

01:22:54.600 my language,

01:22:55.740 what that means

01:22:56.440 is that if Texas

01:22:57.560 is going to redistribute

01:22:58.780 and gerrymander

01:23:00.440 and also silence

01:23:03.000 the voices

01:23:03.560 of Black and brown communities,

01:23:05.620 that California

01:23:06.680 will also make sure

01:23:08.760 that they give

01:23:09.440 more voice

01:23:10.440 to their constituents

01:23:11.560 in the form

01:23:13.360 of Prop 50.

01:23:14.980 And so this is just

01:23:16.020 in response

01:23:16.780 to make sure

01:23:17.660 that those bad policies

01:23:19.560 that they are currently

01:23:20.820 signing up for,

01:23:22.220 that they actually

01:23:23.360 have some accountability

01:23:24.200 because that's

01:23:24.940 what democracy looks like.

01:23:26.020 The final thing

01:23:26.620 that I'll say

01:23:27.180 so that you can

01:23:27.920 go on with your question

01:23:28.640 is that today

01:23:29.580 was very interesting.

01:23:30.960 It's always interesting

01:23:31.840 on the Hill

01:23:32.420 or a hot-ass mess.

01:23:33.800 Either way,

01:23:34.200 you want to look at it.

01:23:34.860 But nevertheless,

01:23:36.080 so we're there

01:23:36.960 and we were voting

01:23:38.860 on a rule

01:23:39.540 for a bill.

01:23:41.280 And I was like,

01:23:42.300 what's taking so long?

01:23:43.620 Because I was ready

01:23:44.640 to go debate

01:23:45.460 the next thing.

01:23:46.400 I just knew

01:23:46.960 it was going to pass.

01:23:47.900 They were going to vote it.

01:23:48.660 But it wasn't.

01:23:50.220 It wasn't passing.

01:23:51.900 And in fact,

01:23:52.740 this rule was going down

01:23:54.180 and there were like

01:23:54.740 six Republicans

01:23:55.780 that voted

01:23:56.380 with the Democrats.

01:23:58.160 So I was like,

01:23:58.840 well, who are

01:23:59.500 the six Republicans?

01:24:01.360 Well, of the six,

01:24:02.620 I think three or four

01:24:05.420 were out of California.

01:24:07.440 So we can see

01:24:08.900 that even the threat

01:24:10.780 of actually

01:24:11.720 holding them accountable

01:24:13.060 has made them start

01:24:14.760 to shift

01:24:15.460 how they're voting.

01:24:16.680 In fact,

01:24:17.200 they were able

01:24:18.120 to get enough

01:24:18.920 to switch over

01:24:19.920 so that they could

01:24:20.560 go ahead

01:24:21.100 and pass the rule.

01:24:23.220 But one of the loudest

01:24:25.540 kind of upset people,

01:24:28.520 Kevin Kiley,

01:24:29.840 he did not change his vote

01:24:31.340 because he plans to run.

01:24:32.840 He knows it's going

01:24:33.580 to be an uphill battle.

01:24:34.620 And now he believes

01:24:35.920 that he should be held

01:24:36.800 accountable

01:24:37.220 for how he votes.

01:24:39.380 But my question is,

01:24:40.420 bro, where have you been?

01:24:42.020 You should have been voting

01:24:43.100 in the interest

01:24:43.640 of your constituents anyway.

01:24:45.080 So I'll just leave it there.

01:24:46.740 Right now,

01:24:47.600 even without this thing

01:24:48.840 going to the ballot,

01:24:50.180 they are having an impact.

01:24:52.340 Well, I'll say this,

01:24:53.880 you know, behind me,

01:24:54.820 I have portraits

01:24:55.800 of Ann Richards

01:24:56.860 and Barbara Jordan.

01:24:57.820 And if you're watching

01:24:58.500 and you don't know

01:24:59.100 who they are,

01:24:59.660 look them up.

01:25:00.760 And it's because

01:25:01.760 of women like this,

01:25:02.720 women like you.

01:25:03.580 I'm glad that you're

01:25:04.720 on my side

01:25:05.520 because I was at

01:25:07.380 the public redistricting

01:25:09.700 hearings that were held

01:25:11.280 here in Texas

01:25:11.880 about these maps.

01:25:12.820 I was at the one

01:25:13.840 at the state capitol

01:25:14.760 and I was at the one

01:25:15.840 in Houston.

01:25:16.860 And so I sat through

01:25:18.740 10 hours of public testimony

01:25:21.380 from Texans

01:25:22.540 all over the state

01:25:23.640 who sat there

01:25:24.820 and begged,

01:25:26.280 begged for our

01:25:27.180 Republican lawmakers

01:25:28.080 to have a conscience

01:25:29.200 and to do the right thing.

01:25:31.180 And they sat there

01:25:32.220 and I'll be honest,

01:25:33.120 y'all,

01:25:33.520 they didn't care.

01:25:34.480 They didn't care.

01:25:35.320 They had made their minds up

01:25:36.400 before they walked

01:25:37.100 into that room.

01:25:37.720 And I think that you are

01:25:39.820 the most uniquely

01:25:41.640 positioned person

01:25:42.760 in the country

01:25:43.860 to really give people

01:25:45.180 insight into

01:25:46.080 what the Texas legislature

01:25:48.060 looks like,

01:25:49.040 what Congress looks like

01:25:50.160 and what this means

01:25:51.140 for the rest of the country

01:25:52.400 because not only are you

01:25:53.360 a member of Congress

01:25:54.280 from Texas,

01:25:55.700 you had your district

01:25:56.620 redistricted,

01:25:57.660 but you were also a member

01:25:58.880 of the Texas legislature.

01:26:01.100 So what is the big picture

01:26:03.380 here that people

01:26:04.040 may not be understanding

01:26:05.360 and why is Texas

01:26:06.540 so important

01:26:07.260 in this conversation?

01:26:09.060 Yeah, that's a very good point.

01:26:10.740 First of all,

01:26:12.540 my favorite organization

01:26:14.860 is the Heritage Foundation.

01:26:17.380 And usually,

01:26:19.400 I feel like Texas

01:26:20.800 becomes the crash dummy

01:26:22.240 for every single

01:26:23.960 bad type of legislation

01:26:25.940 that they want to try out

01:26:27.500 throughout the South.

01:26:29.620 And so this is no different,

01:26:31.900 right?

01:26:32.560 As it's already been laid out

01:26:34.260 by my colleagues,

01:26:35.180 that they started in Texas,

01:26:37.600 but they were definitely

01:26:38.820 never planning

01:26:39.600 to end in Texas.

01:26:41.040 And if anybody believes

01:26:42.220 that there's something

01:26:43.200 that California did

01:26:44.500 that made them say,

01:26:45.480 well, now we've got

01:26:46.060 to do more, no.

01:26:47.260 This was always their plan.

01:26:48.520 The plan was to start in Texas,

01:26:50.060 but then it was

01:26:51.220 to move on to Missouri.

01:26:52.600 It was to move on

01:26:53.800 to Indiana.

01:26:54.900 They even were trying

01:26:55.800 to go after Clyburn

01:26:56.820 in South Carolina.

01:26:57.960 They're planning

01:26:58.660 to go after Florida.

01:27:00.020 They are trying to do this

01:27:01.400 any and everywhere

01:27:02.360 that they think

01:27:03.140 they can get away with it.

01:27:04.920 And so they wanted

01:27:05.920 to test it out in Texas.

01:27:07.500 That's number one.

01:27:08.600 Number two,

01:27:09.720 we literally have people

01:27:11.020 that are elected to office

01:27:12.340 that are supposed

01:27:12.920 to represent the interests

01:27:14.300 of the people

01:27:15.020 that put them into office.

01:27:16.620 And as we both

01:27:17.900 sat through hearings,

01:27:19.780 because I attended

01:27:20.980 more than one hearing myself,

01:27:23.300 you know,

01:27:23.820 it was interesting

01:27:24.820 to have Representative Basut,

01:27:27.320 who was leading

01:27:28.320 those field hearings

01:27:29.320 and leading the redistricting.

01:27:31.120 My classmate

01:27:32.140 to the Texas House

01:27:33.600 pretended that he had

01:27:35.000 no recollection

01:27:35.880 of anything

01:27:36.700 that took place

01:27:37.740 in 2021.

01:27:39.220 Now, listen,

01:27:40.300 I've never professed

01:27:41.400 to have the best memory,

01:27:42.880 but I can remember

01:27:43.880 like yesterday

01:27:44.600 being on the floor

01:27:45.740 arguing with the Republicans,

01:27:48.680 telling them

01:27:49.340 that we had grown

01:27:50.100 the state

01:27:50.580 by 95% people of color.

01:27:53.000 So the idea

01:27:53.940 that we got two new seats

01:27:55.340 because of the growth

01:27:56.320 that Texas experienced,

01:27:57.780 where we added

01:27:58.500 over 4 million people

01:28:00.440 over the last decade

01:28:01.880 once we completed

01:28:03.060 our census

01:28:03.680 and ultimately

01:28:05.340 we got two new Anglo seats.

01:28:07.800 That's that Republican math.

01:28:09.140 That is that Republican math,

01:28:11.660 right?

01:28:12.460 These were Anglo majority seats

01:28:14.620 that they ended up creating.

01:28:17.200 And they're just like,

01:28:18.820 yeah, okay, it worked out.

01:28:20.240 We added 180,000 Anglos

01:28:22.440 in a decade.

01:28:23.860 Each congressional seat

01:28:25.020 is 766,000 people.

01:28:27.360 So you tell me,

01:28:28.860 in fact,

01:28:29.320 that is a microcosm

01:28:30.440 of what they are doing right now.

01:28:32.440 You tell me

01:28:33.120 how 180,000 people

01:28:35.300 end up with two seats

01:28:37.080 where they are the majority

01:28:38.460 and the seats

01:28:39.820 of 766,000 people.

01:28:42.720 That is what they are doing.

01:28:43.800 They are not only doing

01:28:45.300 Donald Trump's bidding,

01:28:46.380 but it's at the expense

01:28:47.640 of so many communities

01:28:50.300 that have already

01:28:51.000 been disenfranchised.

01:28:52.740 Texas has over

01:28:53.640 4 million African Americans,

01:28:55.300 more African Americans

01:28:56.560 than any other state.

01:28:58.060 We had 5 African Americans

01:28:59.560 that have been elected

01:29:00.480 to Congress.

01:29:01.580 When Colin Allred

01:29:02.480 ended up running

01:29:03.220 for the Senate,

01:29:04.100 he was replaced

01:29:04.800 by a non-African American,

01:29:06.300 which is perfectly fine.

01:29:07.720 We then ended up down

01:29:09.040 to 4 African Americans.

01:29:11.540 Okay?

01:29:12.320 Now what they're saying is

01:29:13.580 we're going to cut that

01:29:14.360 into two.

01:29:15.240 You'll only have

01:29:16.280 an opportunity

01:29:16.900 to elect

01:29:17.800 Al Green

01:29:19.380 or whoever wins

01:29:20.140 the 18th.

01:29:21.000 And really what they're

01:29:22.420 trying to do

01:29:22.860 is set it up

01:29:23.480 to where it's most likely

01:29:25.160 me or Mark Vesey

01:29:27.320 in the Dallas area.

01:29:29.760 So you explained to me

01:29:31.400 how on God's green earth

01:29:33.340 in a state

01:29:34.620 in which Anglos

01:29:36.080 were not growing at all

01:29:37.700 and we know

01:29:38.880 that if we look

01:29:40.160 at which group

01:29:42.020 has the vast majority,

01:29:43.520 not the vast majority,

01:29:44.360 but has the plurality

01:29:45.420 of representation,

01:29:47.760 it's actually Latinos

01:29:48.560 in the state of Texas.

01:29:49.500 Latinos have

01:29:51.220 the largest demographic

01:29:52.340 in the entire state.

01:29:54.160 Do they have

01:29:54.560 the largest demographic

01:29:55.580 of opportunities

01:29:56.420 to elect people

01:29:57.380 to Congress?

01:29:57.960 Absolutely not.

01:29:59.420 In fact,

01:29:59.940 we are a majority

01:30:00.580 minority state.

01:30:01.440 We are 60-40.

01:30:03.080 Yet somehow

01:30:03.980 after these maps

01:30:05.180 were done,

01:30:06.200 we're looking at

01:30:07.560 having less minorities

01:30:10.100 being able to choose

01:30:11.020 their representation.

01:30:12.060 So I want to say

01:30:13.960 that this is bigger

01:30:16.140 than my state,

01:30:18.040 your state.

01:30:18.500 This is about us

01:30:19.500 as the United States

01:30:20.660 and what it is

01:30:21.440 that we are fighting for.

01:30:23.020 There is only one side

01:30:24.340 that is willing

01:30:25.040 to stand up

01:30:26.080 to this regime.

01:30:27.340 There is only one side

01:30:28.500 that is willing

01:30:29.180 to conduct investigations.

01:30:31.020 There is only one side

01:30:32.100 that is willing

01:30:32.740 to hold

01:30:33.340 their incompetency

01:30:34.920 and their feet

01:30:36.840 to the fire.

01:30:38.100 There's only one side.

01:30:39.980 And so

01:30:40.420 while people

01:30:41.740 haven't started

01:30:42.400 to feel the effects

01:30:43.200 of being kicked

01:30:43.760 off their health care,

01:30:44.960 they're about to.

01:30:45.780 While people

01:30:46.840 may not have

01:30:47.580 fully felt

01:30:48.220 the effects

01:30:49.260 of the increases

01:30:50.180 in their utility bills,

01:30:52.780 they're about to.

01:30:54.080 While people

01:30:54.880 already know

01:30:55.960 that these tariffs

01:30:57.120 are already

01:30:57.860 hitting pretty hard

01:30:59.340 to the extent

01:31:00.480 that they are

01:31:01.040 shutting down

01:31:01.680 our small businesses

01:31:02.600 and our farm

01:31:04.100 bankruptcies

01:31:05.420 are up

01:31:06.120 58,

01:31:07.740 55 or 58 percent.

01:31:09.640 Don't remember

01:31:10.180 which one.

01:31:11.080 Already,

01:31:12.080 our farmers

01:31:12.660 are filing

01:31:13.300 for bankruptcy.

01:31:14.820 Y'all,

01:31:15.080 like we are

01:31:15.560 in a crisis

01:31:16.280 and it is

01:31:16.880 because the

01:31:17.440 Republicans

01:31:17.800 don't have

01:31:18.220 a backbone.

01:31:19.060 So it's time

01:31:19.840 to make sure

01:31:20.460 that we show

01:31:21.520 them that the

01:31:22.080 Democrats are

01:31:22.680 ready to fight.

01:31:23.820 So that means

01:31:24.520 that California,

01:31:25.580 we need you

01:31:26.020 in this moment.

01:31:26.680 We need your

01:31:27.100 dollars.

01:31:27.900 We need your

01:31:28.340 time.

01:31:29.140 We absolutely

01:31:29.920 need your vote.

01:31:31.560 Yeah.

01:31:31.860 And I'll close

01:31:32.640 this out with this.

01:31:33.860 In a perfect world,

01:31:35.220 we don't have

01:31:36.400 to do mid-decade

01:31:37.620 redistricting.

01:31:38.480 In a perfect world,

01:31:39.360 partisan gerrymandering

01:31:40.400 is banned.

01:31:41.820 But also

01:31:42.540 in a perfect world,

01:31:44.140 women aren't

01:31:45.100 losing their ability

01:31:46.080 to have children

01:31:46.800 because they're

01:31:47.940 going into sepsis.

01:31:49.080 And children

01:31:49.620 in Texas

01:31:50.200 are having books

01:31:51.420 banned in their

01:31:52.020 schools.

01:31:52.520 These are the

01:31:52.920 things that would

01:31:53.340 happen in a

01:31:53.840 perfect world,

01:31:54.640 but we don't

01:31:55.120 live in a

01:31:55.480 perfect world.

01:31:56.020 We live in reality.

01:31:57.000 And so if you're

01:31:58.080 not sure if you're

01:31:58.660 voting on this for

01:31:59.500 you in California

01:32:00.260 and how this

01:32:01.340 benefits you,

01:32:02.440 well, it benefits

01:32:03.460 a lot of people

01:32:04.120 and it benefits

01:32:04.740 people like me,

01:32:05.580 young people

01:32:06.160 who live in Texas

01:32:07.380 where this is our

01:32:08.460 reality every single

01:32:09.540 day.

01:32:09.800 And so you

01:32:10.300 have a chance

01:32:10.880 and an opportunity

01:32:11.560 to not just set

01:32:12.340 yourself up

01:32:13.200 and your future

01:32:14.120 for success,

01:32:14.640 but for young

01:32:15.640 people like me

01:32:16.280 in this state

01:32:16.900 of over 30

01:32:17.600 million people

01:32:18.420 who just want

01:32:19.340 the chance

01:32:19.800 to build our

01:32:20.300 own American

01:32:20.840 dream.

01:32:21.960 Perfectly perfect.

01:32:23.060 Thank you both.

01:32:23.800 I appreciate you

01:32:24.360 being on.

01:32:24.820 Olivia,

01:32:25.400 Representative Crockett,

01:32:26.260 thank you both

01:32:26.700 for being here.

01:32:27.540 Okay, very excited

01:32:28.380 to introduce

01:32:28.880 our next two

01:32:29.560 guests.

01:32:30.300 We have a dear

01:32:31.180 friend of mine,

01:32:32.080 Jack Cacciarella,

01:32:33.180 who is a progressive

01:32:33.980 political commentator.

01:32:35.140 And I know he's

01:32:36.140 laughing because I'm

01:32:36.900 having a lot of

01:32:37.340 trouble saying his

01:32:37.880 last name.

01:32:38.380 It's the first

01:32:39.760 time I actually

01:32:40.460 ever said his

01:32:41.040 last name out

01:32:42.040 loud.

01:32:42.960 But in my defense,

01:32:43.940 you guys look at

01:32:46.160 C-O-C-C-H-I-A-R-E-L-L-A

01:32:48.920 and try to do that.

01:32:50.460 You nailed it.

01:32:50.920 It just means you

01:32:51.720 love me.

01:32:52.440 That's it.

01:32:53.120 I do.

01:32:54.440 He is everywhere

01:32:55.420 online.

01:32:56.440 I am so grateful

01:32:57.460 for his voice in

01:32:58.300 this independent

01:32:58.780 media space.

01:32:59.680 He is one of the

01:33:00.180 people who gets it

01:33:00.920 beyond everybody

01:33:01.660 else.

01:33:02.080 So, Jack, thank

01:33:02.620 you so much for

01:33:03.100 the work that

01:33:03.480 you're doing on

01:33:04.260 a daily basis,

01:33:05.080 helping make our

01:33:05.580 independent media

01:33:06.160 ecosystem stronger

01:33:07.920 and stronger every

01:33:08.660 single day.

01:33:09.680 And now we have

01:33:10.500 our first Gen Z

01:33:11.580 member of Congress,

01:33:12.520 Congressman Maxwell

01:33:13.240 Frost.

01:33:14.680 Congressman, my only

01:33:15.680 hope is that the

01:33:16.440 next generation of

01:33:17.260 Democrats, which I

01:33:18.520 hope we see start

01:33:20.460 to happen in a big

01:33:21.560 way in 2026, that

01:33:23.080 they look a lot

01:33:23.800 like you.

01:33:24.320 So, thank you for

01:33:24.920 being fearless.

01:33:25.780 Thank you for being

01:33:26.360 outspoken.

01:33:27.540 Thank you for being

01:33:28.320 a leader, not just

01:33:29.880 among folks in your

01:33:31.140 generation, but in

01:33:32.080 the party more

01:33:32.560 broadly.

01:33:33.180 So, go ahead.

01:33:34.180 I'll let you guys

01:33:35.780 take it away from

01:33:36.260 here.

01:33:36.960 Absolutely.

01:33:37.600 Thank you, Brian.

01:33:38.380 You're an inspiration

01:33:39.180 to us all.

01:33:40.020 And maybe we're

01:33:40.680 breaking a little bit

01:33:41.260 of news here.

01:33:41.800 I think I said this

01:33:42.560 in our last interview,

01:33:43.480 but I am with my

01:33:44.760 member of Congress,

01:33:45.740 so that makes me

01:33:46.320 very excited.

01:33:47.440 We know the facts

01:33:48.660 of this case.

01:33:49.340 We know the facts

01:33:49.920 of what's happening

01:33:50.540 right now with this

01:33:51.360 administration.

01:33:52.880 We are seeing a rise

01:33:54.600 in a crisis of

01:33:56.080 affordability.

01:33:56.840 That's a fact.

01:33:57.400 There's more law

01:33:58.360 breaking under this

01:33:59.280 administration than

01:33:59.900 ever before.

01:34:00.380 We know it's a fact

01:34:01.080 that Donald Trump,

01:34:02.240 Greg Abbott, they

01:34:02.900 want to disenfranchise

01:34:04.020 black and brown voters

01:34:05.340 around the country.

01:34:06.460 But I want to talk

01:34:07.260 about feelings real

01:34:08.140 quick.

01:34:08.780 Congressman, how

01:34:09.380 would you feel to

01:34:10.560 make this guy right

01:34:11.600 here very, very,

01:34:13.580 very sad?

01:34:14.240 How would that make

01:34:14.880 you feel?

01:34:15.580 Because I think that's

01:34:16.160 important.

01:34:16.460 Yeah, I think it is

01:34:18.220 really important.

01:34:18.820 People know it makes

01:34:19.780 me feel amazing.

01:34:21.500 And this is actually

01:34:22.540 part of the reason

01:34:23.120 we need to win the

01:34:23.760 majority, because I

01:34:25.720 promise you that one

01:34:27.520 of the first people to

01:34:28.660 receive a subpoena will

01:34:30.220 be Stephen Miller.

01:34:31.540 Hell yeah.

01:34:32.080 Guy is one of the most

01:34:32.940 evil people, not just

01:34:35.520 in government, but in

01:34:36.600 this country.

01:34:37.500 And we need to hold

01:34:38.780 him accountable as

01:34:39.580 well.

01:34:40.160 And his suits, they

01:34:41.220 just don't fit at all.

01:34:42.680 He looks terrible.

01:34:43.180 I think it's because

01:34:44.100 the fabric is repelled

01:34:46.320 by him.

01:34:47.000 There's just got to be

01:34:47.760 something about Stephen

01:34:49.000 Miller.

01:34:49.380 I'm also just looking

01:34:50.080 at him.

01:34:50.980 We don't need to trash

01:34:52.300 him personally, but I

01:34:53.040 think we can.

01:34:53.540 I bet he just doesn't

01:34:54.080 smell great either.

01:34:55.700 But of course,

01:34:56.720 Republicans aren't just

01:34:57.600 focused on Texas.

01:34:58.820 This fight has spread,

01:35:00.360 or I guess it's not a

01:35:01.000 fight.

01:35:01.220 We're taking on the

01:35:01.920 fight.

01:35:02.520 What they're doing is a

01:35:04.000 little bit different.

01:35:05.060 But we certainly know

01:35:05.960 that it wants to spread

01:35:07.140 across the country.

01:35:08.600 Ron DeSantis, certainly

01:35:09.940 someone not new to

01:35:13.220 falling in line with

01:35:14.260 Donald Trump and

01:35:14.860 getting embarrassed

01:35:15.800 because of it.

01:35:16.800 How are we going to

01:35:17.880 make sure that this is

01:35:19.560 a tone-setting moment

01:35:20.940 in California, telling

01:35:22.260 the rest of Republicans

01:35:23.440 across the country,

01:35:24.580 hey, if you, I don't

01:35:25.460 want to say it, but if

01:35:26.020 I go around, you find

01:35:26.740 out.

01:35:28.220 Well, yeah.

01:35:28.560 And for people who

01:35:29.000 don't know, of course,

01:35:30.540 they're moving forward

01:35:31.560 with Texas.

01:35:32.820 They're trying to figure

01:35:33.660 out other places they

01:35:34.660 can do this as well.

01:35:35.540 They're moving forward

01:35:36.360 with this in Florida as

01:35:37.340 well.

01:35:37.580 And we have pulled

01:35:39.260 it across the entire

01:35:40.280 state.

01:35:41.040 Democrats, Republicans,

01:35:42.920 independents come out

01:35:44.360 when they're asked, are

01:35:45.460 you in favor of the

01:35:46.460 state of Florida

01:35:47.020 redistricting to help

01:35:48.680 Donald Trump get a

01:35:49.760 majority?

01:35:50.420 They say no.

01:35:52.280 Every single time.

01:35:54.480 And so part of what

01:35:55.400 we're, you know, part of

01:35:56.260 what we're looking to do

01:35:56.880 in our state is make

01:35:57.880 sure that people

01:35:58.380 understand what they're

01:35:59.900 trying to do.

01:36:00.480 And you brought up

01:36:00.980 DeSantis.

01:36:01.680 A lot of people don't

01:36:02.460 know this.

01:36:03.120 DeSantis and Trump

01:36:04.140 hate each other.

01:36:05.340 Donald Trump hates

01:36:06.420 Ron DeSantis.

01:36:07.120 And what Ron DeSantis

01:36:08.120 is trying to do is he's

01:36:09.500 about to not be the

01:36:10.420 governor of Florida

01:36:11.040 anymore next year.

01:36:12.480 He's going to be to have

01:36:13.560 two years where he's not

01:36:14.540 an elected official, but

01:36:15.900 he really wants to run

01:36:16.840 for president.

01:36:17.660 And he knows he can't

01:36:18.900 win that Republican

01:36:19.560 primary without Donald

01:36:20.640 Trump's help.

01:36:21.380 So he has turned into

01:36:22.500 Donald Trump's lap

01:36:23.760 dog that Donald Trump

01:36:25.060 actually hates.

01:36:26.140 And he wants to do

01:36:26.860 everything he can to be

01:36:28.660 in the news, to get a

01:36:29.900 news cycle, to lick the

01:36:31.360 boot of Donald Trump, to

01:36:32.760 try to earn some of that

01:36:33.760 support so he's not

01:36:35.400 completely irrelevant.

01:36:36.580 And that's why we've

01:36:37.380 seen all these things

01:36:38.220 from redistricting, even

01:36:39.900 the Everglades detention

01:36:41.640 facility, the internment

01:36:42.940 camp, Alligator Alcatraz,

01:36:44.620 all this stuff he's doing

01:36:46.800 because the dude wants to

01:36:48.020 run for president.

01:36:48.920 He has no juice.

01:36:50.740 Nobody likes him, even in

01:36:52.300 his own party.

01:36:53.260 He does not have the

01:36:53.940 sauce.

01:36:54.640 Have you heard his voice?

01:36:56.040 Have you seen his boots?

01:36:57.220 So this is what's going on

01:37:01.740 in the state of Florida.

01:37:02.440 I want to make sure people

01:37:03.640 know, Jasmine brought it

01:37:04.680 up.

01:37:05.440 I always tell this to

01:37:06.140 people, Project 2025, all

01:37:07.880 this stuff everyone's

01:37:08.760 seeing now, that's Florida

01:37:09.980 2020.

01:37:11.280 OK, this stuff that they're

01:37:12.840 trying across this country,

01:37:13.980 they've been doing in the

01:37:14.920 South for a long time.

01:37:16.200 They passed the big,

01:37:17.860 beautiful bill for

01:37:18.900 billionaires, the largest

01:37:20.560 transfer of wealth from

01:37:21.340 the working class to

01:37:22.320 billionaires, the rich

01:37:23.480 getting richer, the poor

01:37:24.280 getting poorer, working

01:37:25.520 class getting poorer as

01:37:26.640 well.

01:37:27.240 They know they can't

01:37:28.280 win the election because

01:37:29.640 people are pissed off about

01:37:30.980 it.

01:37:31.180 In fact, Donald Trump sent

01:37:32.640 his top people to Capitol

01:37:34.480 Hill to tell the

01:37:35.680 Republican Party, hey, you

01:37:37.340 got to stop calling it the

01:37:38.380 Big Beautiful Bill Act

01:37:39.400 because it's so unpopular.

01:37:41.460 We got to rebrand it.

01:37:42.740 Bro, you named it the Big

01:37:44.340 Beautiful Bill Act.

01:37:45.640 You have the word

01:37:46.400 beautiful in there.

01:37:47.720 The facts of the matter are

01:37:49.120 so bad that people don't

01:37:50.580 like it, even your own

01:37:51.520 party.

01:37:52.220 And now they're trying to

01:37:52.780 figure out how to change

01:37:53.520 it.

01:37:53.880 It's so unpopular.

01:37:54.920 They know they're going to

01:37:55.640 lose.

01:37:55.980 And so they want to

01:37:57.180 cheat.

01:37:57.900 They want to cheat because

01:37:59.060 they don't want to lose.

01:37:59.880 And that's what's going on

01:38:00.660 right now.

01:38:01.080 Yeah, they're terrified.

01:38:02.160 And they're also terrified

01:38:03.280 because they know that we

01:38:04.660 do have a bit of hope.

01:38:06.020 And of course, the momentum

01:38:07.140 is mounting.

01:38:08.100 I want to talk about not

01:38:09.500 just what we'll do when we

01:38:10.860 do, in fact, win the

01:38:12.220 house back, but the

01:38:13.560 successes that you've

01:38:14.620 already had.

01:38:15.420 You brought up what

01:38:16.220 Stephen Miller and all the

01:38:17.800 rest of those goons like to

01:38:19.240 call alligator Alcatraz.

01:38:20.760 Of course, you made a big

01:38:22.600 move there that I want you

01:38:23.320 to talk about.

01:38:23.840 And maybe we keep it open

01:38:24.840 or reopen it for Stephen

01:38:25.920 Miller.

01:38:26.140 I don't know in a couple

01:38:26.900 of years.

01:38:27.140 But can you talk about how

01:38:28.000 we're still winning right

01:38:29.400 now and what that means for

01:38:30.560 when we actually do have the

01:38:32.000 house back?

01:38:33.420 Well, something that I always

01:38:34.300 told organizers when I was on

01:38:35.620 the front lines of Black

01:38:36.380 Lives Matter and that I think

01:38:37.520 about a lot now as a member

01:38:38.880 of Congress that doesn't have

01:38:40.920 all the seats we want is

01:38:42.640 when you don't have all the

01:38:43.340 power you want, you use all

01:38:44.400 the power you got.

01:38:45.520 And one of the most

01:38:46.360 important things we can do

01:38:47.360 right now as elected

01:38:48.040 officials is use our powers

01:38:50.440 of oversight, especially

01:38:52.200 as it relates to this.

01:38:54.400 What I would say is a

01:38:55.520 campaign of terrorism on

01:38:57.600 our communities of going

01:38:59.320 in and kidnapping people

01:39:00.620 and human trafficking them

01:39:02.280 to other countries and

01:39:03.560 other states.

01:39:04.320 And when this facility was

01:39:05.860 open, not just myself,

01:39:07.220 but many other

01:39:07.860 representatives across the

01:39:09.180 state of Florida pulled

01:39:10.380 up and said, we want to go

01:39:12.280 in to see what's going on.

01:39:13.520 And we didn't just do that.

01:39:14.420 We coordinated with a lot

01:39:16.000 of the people engaged in

01:39:17.180 lawsuits.

01:39:17.660 And we were able to find

01:39:19.040 out what information do

01:39:20.480 you need from the inside?

01:39:21.820 What can we get?

01:39:23.080 We went in there and we

01:39:23.900 got it.

01:39:24.220 I went a second time and

01:39:25.840 spoke with people who were

01:39:26.800 being detained there and

01:39:27.800 got even more information.

01:39:29.600 Many of us did

01:39:30.240 declarations.

01:39:31.420 Some of us served as

01:39:32.220 witnesses in the federal

01:39:33.300 case.

01:39:33.940 And many of you saw that

01:39:35.420 we got that place shut

01:39:36.720 down.

01:39:37.100 A judge came out a few

01:39:38.740 about a week ago and

01:39:39.860 reversed that.

01:39:40.620 It's going to be back and

01:39:41.500 forth in court.

01:39:42.080 But as of right now, that

01:39:43.440 facility is not operating

01:39:44.620 because of the work of the

01:39:46.480 organizations that follow

01:39:47.460 the lawsuit, but because

01:39:48.400 elected officials said,

01:39:49.320 you know what?

01:39:50.160 We have privilege.

01:39:51.080 We have positions of

01:39:51.820 power.

01:39:52.420 How can we use that to

01:39:53.420 support organizers?

01:39:54.660 How can we use it to

01:39:55.480 support this lawsuit to

01:39:56.860 shut the place down?

01:39:58.220 DeSantis is opening up

01:39:59.200 another one in North

01:39:59.880 Florida.

01:40:00.120 And guess what?

01:40:01.000 I'll be pulling up to

01:40:01.760 that one as well.

01:40:02.760 We got to do everything

01:40:03.760 we can in this moment with

01:40:05.520 what we got.

01:40:06.640 And I'm really proud of

01:40:08.040 that, what we did with

01:40:09.240 Alligator Alcatraz, because

01:40:10.560 I think it shows what

01:40:11.400 happens when elected

01:40:12.200 officials work with

01:40:13.660 organizers, work with

01:40:15.120 the people on the

01:40:15.720 ground.

01:40:16.080 We're not going to win

01:40:17.240 100% of the time, but

01:40:19.220 sometimes we will win.

01:40:20.800 And it feels good to

01:40:21.960 win.

01:40:22.440 And like, like it's

01:40:23.220 going to feel good on

01:40:24.040 election day at the end

01:40:25.360 of this year when

01:40:26.340 California passes this.

01:40:28.540 Absolutely.

01:40:28.580 It is.

01:40:29.240 And if you want to make

01:40:30.000 sure that that happens,

01:40:31.260 go to yes on 50, the

01:40:33.080 number 50 live.com.

01:40:34.500 Yes, I'm 50 live.

01:40:35.380 And I want this segment

01:40:36.560 Maxwell, you and I to

01:40:37.640 have raised the most.

01:40:39.100 I don't know if that's

01:40:40.040 going to tell me those

01:40:40.920 numbers later, but I'm

01:40:42.000 going to make the point

01:40:42.640 of saying this is the

01:40:43.900 person that you can

01:40:45.080 really upset.

01:40:45.840 That is our vice

01:40:46.820 president.

01:40:47.380 If you go and donate,

01:40:48.820 I'm going to show it to

01:40:49.360 you again.

01:40:49.700 Jump scare.

01:40:50.340 Don't again.

01:40:51.180 Take a look at that.

01:40:52.780 Take take a look at

01:40:53.880 that face.

01:40:54.540 Yeah.

01:40:54.880 The higher number you

01:40:55.840 donate, the more you

01:40:57.020 don't like him.

01:40:57.980 Exactly.

01:40:58.600 I need I need y'all

01:40:59.520 and we'll do it one more

01:41:00.340 time.

01:41:00.780 This guy right here.

01:41:01.720 Are you serious?

01:41:02.340 Oh, my God.

01:41:03.580 Please.

01:41:04.300 Yes on 50 live dot

01:41:05.860 com.

01:41:07.280 Turn out and fight

01:41:08.080 people.

01:41:11.060 Awesome.

01:41:11.620 Thank you both.

01:41:12.280 I should note that that

01:41:13.400 worked because we just

01:41:14.340 passed four hundred

01:41:15.120 thousand dollars.

01:41:16.040 So thank you.

01:41:17.240 Only good thing Stephen

01:41:18.100 Miller ever did is help us

01:41:19.320 raise money.

01:41:20.160 Thank you for showing his

01:41:21.200 ugly ass face.

01:41:22.120 We appreciate it.

01:41:23.000 And thank you to

01:41:23.700 everybody who's donated.

01:41:24.800 For those who haven't yet

01:41:25.960 donated, this is the whole

01:41:27.160 ballgame here.

01:41:27.980 We've been begging for

01:41:28.840 Democrats to fight.

01:41:29.900 This is what it looks like

01:41:30.700 for Democrats to fight.

01:41:31.880 They've done their part.

01:41:32.940 We've got this thing on the

01:41:34.120 ballot on November 4th.

01:41:35.560 Now it's just a matter of

01:41:36.560 making sure that we can

01:41:37.300 raise enough money

01:41:37.920 grassroots so that people

01:41:40.040 all across this state know

01:41:41.920 what's on the ballot, know

01:41:43.020 what the stakes are in this

01:41:43.980 upcoming election.

01:41:44.800 So if you haven't yet

01:41:45.800 donated and you have a few

01:41:46.860 bucks, donate here instead

01:41:48.940 of going and getting a

01:41:49.720 coffee somewhere.

01:41:50.640 Five, ten, fifteen bucks.

01:41:52.020 It makes a huge difference.

01:41:53.500 And you can add your own

01:41:56.120 name to the throngs of

01:41:57.000 people who've already

01:41:57.660 donated.

01:41:58.100 We are fast approaching a

01:41:59.760 half a million dollars in

01:42:00.920 just a couple of hours

01:42:01.720 tonight.

01:42:02.480 And if you really hate that

01:42:03.840 guy, if you really hate

01:42:05.420 Stephen Miller and J.D.

01:42:08.380 Vance, then your way to

01:42:09.340 show that right now is to

01:42:10.480 go to yeson50live.com.

01:42:12.940 All right, Jack and

01:42:13.780 Congressman Frost, thank you

01:42:15.200 so much for being here

01:42:15.940 tonight.

01:42:16.200 We appreciate it.

01:42:17.040 I'm Jorge Ramos.

01:42:18.520 And I'm Paula Ramos.

01:42:20.080 Together we're launching

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01:43:16.880 This is a tape-recorded

01:43:18.060 statement.

01:43:19.100 The person being interviewed

01:43:20.260 is Krista Gayle Pike.

01:43:23.340 This is in regards to the

01:43:25.140 death of a Colleen Slimmer.

01:43:27.620 She started going off on

01:43:29.160 me when I hit her.

01:43:31.500 I just hit her and hit her

01:43:33.080 and hit her and hit her.

01:43:33.980 On a cold January day in

01:43:36.840 1995, 18-year-old Krista

01:43:39.820 Pike killed 19-year-old

01:43:41.740 Colleen Slimmer in the woods

01:43:43.560 of Knoxville, Tennessee.

01:43:45.480 Since her conviction, Krista

01:43:47.000 has been sitting on death row.

01:43:49.000 The state has asked for an

01:43:49.900 execution date for Krista.

01:43:52.360 We let people languish in

01:43:54.000 prison for decades, raising

01:43:55.940 questions about who we consider

01:43:57.580 fundamentally unrestorable.

01:43:59.940 How does someone prove that

01:44:01.140 they deserve to live?

01:44:02.500 We are starting the recording

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01:44:05.220 Please state your first and

01:44:06.500 last name.

01:44:09.140 Krista Pike.

01:44:10.760 Listen to Unrestorable Season 2,

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01:44:19.080 What do you get when a true crime

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01:44:42.160 but this is a bit different.

01:44:44.740 On stage stood a comedian with a

01:44:46.940 story that no one expected to hear.

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01:45:21.480 All I know is what I've been told, and

01:45:28.260 that to have truth is a whole lie.

01:45:30.800 For almost a decade, the murder of an

01:45:33.780 18-year-old girl from a small town in

01:45:36.700 Graves County, Kentucky, went unsolved.

01:45:40.100 Until a local homemaker, a journalist,

01:45:42.860 and a handful of girls came forward with

01:45:45.620 a story.

01:45:46.540 I'm telling you, we know Quincy killed her.

01:45:49.120 We know.

01:45:49.540 A story that law enforcement used to

01:45:52.380 convict six people, and that got the

01:45:54.980 Citizen Investigator on national TV.

01:45:57.980 Through sheer persistence and nerve, this

01:46:00.500 Kentucky housewife helped give justice to

01:46:03.300 Jessica Curran.

01:46:04.840 My name is Maggie Freeling.

01:46:06.640 I'm a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist,

01:46:08.900 producer, and I wouldn't be here if the

01:46:12.400 truth were that easy to find.

01:46:14.980 I did not know her, and I did not kill

01:46:16.780 her.

01:46:17.040 Or rape, or burn, or any of that other

01:46:19.220 stuff that y'all said it.

01:46:20.580 They literally made me say that I took a

01:46:22.300 match and struck and threw it on her.

01:46:24.200 They made me say that I poured gas on her.

01:46:28.320 From Lava for Good, this is Graves County.

01:46:31.960 A show about just how far our legal system

01:46:35.300 will go in order to find someone to blame.

01:46:38.980 America, y'all better work the hell up.

01:46:40.680 Bad things happens to good people in small

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01:46:47.720 Listen to Graves County in the Bone Valley

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01:47:00.920 Podcasts.

01:47:01.720 Hola, it's Honey German, and my podcast,

01:47:11.720 Gracias Come Again, is back.

01:47:13.800 This season, we're going even deeper into the

01:47:15.740 world of music and entertainment with raw

01:47:17.860 and honest conversations with some of your

01:47:19.480 favorite Latin artists and celebrities.

01:47:21.560 You didn't have to audition?

01:47:22.600 No, I didn't audition.

01:47:23.720 I haven't auditioned in like over 25 years.

01:47:26.360 Oh, wow.

01:47:27.120 That's a real G-talk right there.

01:47:28.680 Oh, yeah.

01:47:29.040 We've got some of the biggest actors,

01:47:31.340 musicians, content creators, and culture

01:47:33.480 shifters sharing their real stories of

01:47:36.000 failure and success.

01:47:37.560 Yo siento como que esto es de mi destino.

01:47:40.200 You were destined to be a star.

01:47:41.360 Sí, eso es lo que yo quería hacer.

01:47:43.120 We talk all about what's viral and

01:47:44.820 trending with a little bit of chisme,

01:47:46.660 a lot of laughs, and those amazing vibras

01:47:48.760 you've come to expect.

01:47:49.980 And of course, we'll explore deeper topics

01:47:51.900 dealing with identity, struggles, and all

01:47:54.220 the issues affecting our Latin community.

01:47:56.580 You feel like you get a little whitewashed

01:47:58.280 because you have to do the code switching?

01:48:00.040 I won't say whitewashed because at the end of the day,

01:48:02.020 you know, I'm me.

01:48:02.820 Yeah.

01:48:03.040 But the whole pretending and code,

01:48:05.280 you know, it takes a toll on you.

01:48:06.560 Listen to the new season of Gracias Come Again

01:48:08.340 as part of My Cultura Podcast Network

01:48:10.240 on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts,

01:48:12.480 or wherever you get your podcasts.

01:48:13.800 Very excited to ask our next guest to come in.

01:48:20.140 We've got A.B. Burns Tucker,

01:48:21.680 who is a graduate of Southwestern Law School,

01:48:24.060 works as a social influencer,

01:48:25.800 social media influencer under the name

01:48:27.460 I Am Legally Hype.

01:48:29.160 If you are not yet following her,

01:48:30.760 you want to follow her, trust me.

01:48:32.900 She's gained over half a million followers

01:48:34.480 across every platform by breaking down

01:48:36.280 complicated political and legal issues.

01:48:38.800 She's also a political correspondent

01:48:40.100 with The Shade Room.

01:48:41.340 So again, if you're not yet following,

01:48:43.100 do yourself a favor and follow.

01:48:44.220 And thank you for the work you're doing,

01:48:45.740 breaking this stuff down.

01:48:46.760 I know it is a Herculean feat task

01:48:50.800 that you've taken on.

01:48:52.160 And she's joined by two amazing fighters

01:48:54.380 for democracy.

01:48:55.420 We have Representative Kamlager Dove

01:48:57.920 and also Representative Aguilar.

01:49:00.120 Very excited to introduce you both

01:49:02.160 from California's 37th and 33rd.

01:49:04.820 Thank you so much for being here,

01:49:06.040 for supporting independent media.

01:49:07.700 Looking forward to the conversation.

01:49:10.380 Yay!

01:49:10.780 Yay!

01:49:11.240 I'm so excited.

01:49:12.600 I'm excited to be joined by you both.

01:49:14.880 Okay, Representative Kamlager Dove

01:49:16.840 and Representative Aguilar.

01:49:18.120 We got California in the house.

01:49:20.460 Okay, baby?

01:49:21.200 Because y'all already know

01:49:22.420 when Republicans go low, baby,

01:49:24.280 in California, we get ready to squabble up.

01:49:26.480 Okay?

01:49:26.780 And we got two representatives here

01:49:28.640 that are ready to fight for you.

01:49:30.560 And fight we gonna do.

01:49:31.660 Because I mean,

01:49:32.620 I know y'all seen my homegirl Liz earlier.

01:49:34.720 I don't know if y'all seen her.

01:49:35.640 But it's upsetting me and my homegirl, okay?

01:49:39.460 Because if you can't go to California

01:49:41.300 to fight gerrymandering,

01:49:42.740 where can you go?

01:49:44.600 Where can you go?

01:49:45.660 So let's get into it.

01:49:46.940 I'm excited.

01:49:48.180 So my first question is this.

01:49:50.520 Kamlager Dove, I'll let you go first.

01:49:52.300 Republicans are out here

01:49:53.280 and they just trying to take power.

01:49:55.040 Okay, they redrawn congressional maps

01:49:56.660 mid-decade so they can stay in control.

01:49:59.280 So first tell us,

01:50:00.400 why the hell are they doing this?

01:50:02.200 Then talk about what exactly is Prop 50?

01:50:06.200 And then we're gonna go into

01:50:07.460 why Prop 50 is the perfect clock back

01:50:10.020 for all this that's going on.

01:50:12.300 Back in the house.

01:50:13.820 So, you know, why are they doing this?

01:50:16.180 They're doing this because they know

01:50:17.320 they're going to lose in November, right?

01:50:20.140 First, they did this $4.5 trillion tax cut

01:50:23.360 for billionaires.

01:50:24.260 They thought, ooh, okay,

01:50:25.200 people were gonna be asleep at the wheel

01:50:26.660 and be okay with that.

01:50:28.180 Then we saw eggs started costing $15 a dozen

01:50:31.580 and they were hard to find in the grocery stores

01:50:33.920 and gas was going up too.

01:50:35.880 And then they said, well,

01:50:37.100 we're gonna have to pay for all these tax cuts

01:50:39.500 by cutting your healthcare.

01:50:42.080 So we had $770 billion cut to Medicare.

01:50:45.700 We've seen cuts on Medicaid

01:50:46.960 in the state of California.

01:50:48.880 You know, shutting down and firing federal departments,

01:50:53.400 firing federal workers,

01:50:55.000 shutting down USAID,

01:50:56.280 which is as much about foreign aid

01:50:58.100 as it is about making sure that our farmers,

01:51:00.220 hello, California is a farming state,

01:51:02.300 are being able to get these contracts.

01:51:04.360 So all of it's going to hell in a handbasket.

01:51:07.220 And the American people started waking up

01:51:09.280 and they were like, oh, homie is not playing any of this

01:51:12.460 because this man ran for office

01:51:14.840 to make the cost of living go down,

01:51:18.120 not to have it skyrocket

01:51:20.020 and then have all the money go into his pockets

01:51:22.540 because he's so confused that all he wants to do

01:51:26.340 is put more golden candelabras in the White House

01:51:29.200 and then lend these arbitrary tariffs around the world

01:51:32.320 so that we as consumers have to pay more.

01:51:35.000 So he said, hey, 26 is coming up.

01:51:37.700 Folks are waking up to the game.

01:51:39.480 They might vote some of these Republicans out of office

01:51:42.440 because these Republicans are not listening to the people.

01:51:45.540 So let me call my governors in these red states

01:51:49.100 and see which one will do what I ask.

01:51:51.640 And what I'm asking for is more seats.

01:51:54.180 I need more red seats.

01:51:56.080 I want you to gerrymander.

01:51:57.980 They still in.

01:51:59.220 They're regging it.

01:52:00.300 And so who answered the call?

01:52:01.960 Gregory Abbott.

01:52:02.780 And he went into a back room,

01:52:04.400 wheeled on in there,

01:52:05.380 and without even consulting other Republican legislators,

01:52:09.560 okay, that's how nasty they are,

01:52:11.880 he redrew some maps and in doing that,

01:52:15.660 what he did was he's silencing voters in Texas

01:52:19.780 and he's erasing the possibility for people of color,

01:52:23.460 black folks, brown folks to be able to run for those seats.

01:52:26.760 He is cutting off the pipeline at the local level

01:52:29.900 because he's getting rid of seats at the federal level

01:52:33.060 where folks would run.

01:52:34.520 So, you know, the bear was hibernating.

01:52:36.400 We're trying to handle our own business,

01:52:38.000 get these ICE agents all up out of Los Angeles, right?

01:52:41.320 Make sure that folks can go to their job,

01:52:43.100 go to their churches, go to their hearings

01:52:44.760 without being snatched and kidnapped

01:52:46.520 and detained and deported.

01:52:48.440 But the bear woke up and said, I don't think so.

01:52:51.300 And we came up with Prop 50.

01:52:53.180 And, you know, our Democratic caucus chair

01:52:55.480 will, I think, share about, you know, what Prop 50 is,

01:52:59.020 but what we know, it's transparent.

01:53:00.680 We know it's temporary.

01:53:02.180 We know it's fair.

01:53:03.260 And we know that it obeys the law.

01:53:05.600 Did I set you up, Pete Aguilar?

01:53:07.860 You did.

01:53:08.580 You did, SKD.

01:53:09.700 I thank you so much.

01:53:10.820 Good to be with you, A.B.

01:53:12.140 And just like Sidney said,

01:53:14.400 look, this is California punching back,

01:53:16.860 doing everything we can.

01:53:19.080 And we know we have the winning recipe

01:53:21.080 because this is transparent, as Sidney said.

01:53:24.380 Texas and Greg Abbott just changed the system

01:53:27.640 and tried to steal five seats.

01:53:29.760 We go to the voters and we created a map

01:53:32.240 collaboratively working together to punch back,

01:53:36.000 but we made it temporary.

01:53:37.520 The independent commission that we like comes back in 2031.

01:53:42.700 We respect the Voting Rights Act.

01:53:45.100 We respect Black and Brown districts.

01:53:47.620 And we make sure that we are meeting this moment

01:53:50.720 and punching back appropriately.

01:53:53.460 And so that's why we're transparent.

01:53:55.360 We're fair.

01:53:57.040 You know, because of that,

01:53:58.680 we're going to have success with Proposition 50.

01:54:01.180 Yes on 50live.com is where people can go

01:54:05.220 to help out, 5-0.

01:54:06.720 Yes on 50live.com.

01:54:09.060 Thank you guys so much for elevating this platform

01:54:12.640 and for giving us this space to talk about this

01:54:15.720 because this is so incredibly important.

01:54:17.860 We cannot let Republicans steal an election.

01:54:22.140 I absolutely believe,

01:54:23.580 and Sidney and I both subscribe to what Latifah said,

01:54:26.160 this is about free and fair elections in 2026 and in 2028,

01:54:30.740 and we won't have those

01:54:32.400 if Republicans can consolidate power

01:54:34.520 around these terrible policies

01:54:36.180 and rig the system as they go each and every month.

01:54:40.100 It's also about jobs.

01:54:42.140 It's about health care.

01:54:43.560 It's about having a future for your family.

01:54:45.600 It's about being able to go to school

01:54:47.180 and get an education.

01:54:49.140 You know, it's about not being afraid

01:54:51.660 that all of the colleges and universities in your town

01:54:54.220 are going to dry up.

01:54:55.760 It's about knowing that you can walk outside your home

01:54:58.320 and not be detained and deported,

01:55:00.480 not be lynched because of the color of your skin.

01:55:03.880 You know, these are folks

01:55:04.720 that want a national abortion ban.

01:55:06.600 They are doing every single thing that they can

01:55:08.780 to take us back to pre-Jim Crow.

01:55:12.220 And I am not being hyperbolic.

01:55:15.000 So it is about democracy,

01:55:16.600 but it is also about the money in your pocket

01:55:19.700 and your ability to earn and learn and have a family.

01:55:24.220 And if folks don't want you engaged,

01:55:27.460 if they don't want you to be able to vote,

01:55:29.440 if they don't want you to have love for your country,

01:55:32.400 then they have won.

01:55:33.900 And we cannot let that happen.

01:55:36.620 No way, not now, not ever.

01:55:39.980 Okay, period.

01:55:41.320 And with that being said, right,

01:55:42.700 not only do we need y'all money,

01:55:44.460 but we need y'all to pull up and actually vote, right?

01:55:47.240 So turnout in special elections

01:55:49.380 are usually pretty low, right?

01:55:51.200 Especially in Black and minority communities.

01:55:55.220 Rep Aguilar, I think your district is what?

01:55:57.280 Something like 60% Hispanic

01:55:58.900 and maybe about 10% Black.

01:56:00.840 Rep Kamalagra Dove,

01:56:01.920 I think there's something about 54% Black

01:56:04.580 or Hispanic, about 20% Black.

01:56:07.320 Something right there.

01:56:08.440 Why do you think it's so hard for us

01:56:13.120 to get these people out?

01:56:14.440 Like, or get these people out to vote?

01:56:16.140 Are we not communicating properly?

01:56:18.640 Is it a failure on political leadership?

01:56:21.420 Are we not meeting voters where they are?

01:56:23.140 Like, what do we need to do to make sure

01:56:24.560 not only we get the money

01:56:25.700 to make sure we're getting the message out,

01:56:27.240 but we get these people registered to vote?

01:56:28.740 Today is National Registration Day,

01:56:31.040 registered to vote and outvoted

01:56:32.660 so that we can redistrict.

01:56:35.360 And yes, on Prop 50.

01:56:36.760 Rep Aguilar, I'll start with you.

01:56:38.740 Yeah, National Voting Registration Day.

01:56:41.780 This is so incredibly important.

01:56:43.100 And I think the answer to your question

01:56:45.460 is we have to inspire people.

01:56:46.840 And just like Sidney said,

01:56:48.480 we have to make this about the American public

01:56:51.220 and what they benefit

01:56:52.860 when we are able to govern.

01:56:55.620 And when Leader Jeffries becomes Speaker Jeffries,

01:56:58.740 we're going to be able to lower the cost

01:57:01.660 of healthcare for people.

01:57:02.700 We're going to be able to put more money

01:57:04.020 in people's pockets.

01:57:05.220 We're going to be able to clean up

01:57:06.340 the culture of corruption

01:57:07.540 that allows the president to trade in meme coins

01:57:11.080 and the Supreme Court to run around

01:57:12.960 and without a code of ethics

01:57:14.920 or any principles at all.

01:57:17.160 I mean, those are the things

01:57:18.080 that we're going to be able to do

01:57:19.340 when we have the ability

01:57:21.700 to push back legislatively.

01:57:23.520 But to Sidney's point,

01:57:24.400 we have to make this

01:57:25.460 and center this around the American public.

01:57:27.600 And they are getting crushed by costs.

01:57:30.140 They're getting crushed in this Trump economy.

01:57:32.460 And we have to connect the dots

01:57:34.240 and tell them why Yes on 50

01:57:36.360 is going to help them.

01:57:37.880 And so that's the important piece.

01:57:40.460 But we have to do more.

01:57:41.560 We've got to knock on doors.

01:57:42.620 We've got to reach people.

01:57:43.920 We've got to tell them

01:57:44.600 this is just going to be a small ballot.

01:57:46.220 We just need them to put in Yes

01:57:47.880 and send it back in.

01:57:49.700 And because in California,

01:57:50.920 we have an ability for mail-in voting

01:57:54.180 that doesn't exist around the country.

01:57:56.860 And we have a strong ability

01:57:58.780 to allow people to exercise

01:58:00.380 their right to vote.

01:58:02.220 We need to make sure that they use it,

01:58:04.500 that they use their voice

01:58:05.620 and that they do it.

01:58:06.420 And around the country,

01:58:07.560 people are waiting in lines for hours.

01:58:09.760 We're making this easy for people.

01:58:11.500 If you're working two jobs,

01:58:13.060 if you're picking up your kids

01:58:14.240 from school late,

01:58:15.760 you don't have to make that choice

01:58:17.240 whether I'm going to pick up my kids late

01:58:18.880 or go to vote.

01:58:20.140 You can do it in the comfort of your own home

01:58:21.860 and you're going to have a ballot

01:58:23.520 at your home in just a couple of weeks.

01:58:27.640 All right.

01:58:28.280 So y'all going to the projects with me, right?

01:58:30.040 To get them folks registered to votes?

01:58:32.000 Yes, queen.

01:58:33.000 Okay.

01:58:33.660 That's what I'm talking about.

01:58:34.860 Now, here's the other thing.

01:58:38.980 So the message is going out

01:58:41.380 from the other side, right?

01:58:42.420 I didn't see the commercials.

01:58:43.480 I was at my granny house this past weekend.

01:58:45.840 Actually, my granny in your district,

01:58:47.680 Aguilar, my granny out there in your district.

01:58:49.680 I was at her house.

01:58:51.000 I don't got cable at home.

01:58:52.960 Okay.

01:58:53.540 My granny and them got cable.

01:58:54.820 So they seeing the messages, right?

01:58:56.800 And some Republicans are out here

01:58:58.140 claiming that Prop 50 actually hurts democracy

01:59:00.500 and strips the power from voters.

01:59:04.820 Tell us why they lying, Kamala Rudeau.

01:59:08.900 Well, I hate to say it,

01:59:10.020 but right now they lying just because they're Republicans

01:59:11.920 and they're scared to tell the truth under Donald Trump.

01:59:14.540 It just is what it is.

01:59:17.020 And so we have to bring courage

01:59:18.760 back up in here into this fight.

01:59:21.220 And Democrats have the courage.

01:59:22.460 Because like I said, we weren't trying to do this,

01:59:24.520 but we have to do this.

01:59:25.560 We have to do it for Texas.

01:59:26.720 We have to do it for Missouri.

01:59:27.640 We have to do it for Indiana.

01:59:29.120 We have to do it for Florida.

01:59:30.200 We have to do it for Ohio.

01:59:31.540 We have to do it for California.

01:59:33.700 You know, they have more money.

01:59:35.620 We're doing this telethon, like World Aid.

01:59:38.420 This is World Aid for Democracy.

01:59:40.260 Because we need to raise this money

01:59:43.120 to get the information out.

01:59:45.560 A single issue ballot in November

01:59:47.820 when you're already tired from 2024,

01:59:50.660 that is a heavy lift, okay?

01:59:53.220 We still got the 92% out there.

01:59:55.100 Folks are like, all these maniacs up in Congress,

01:59:58.200 it's a circus.

01:59:59.040 I'm going to check out.

02:00:00.240 But we have to check back in.

02:00:03.420 Like we said, this is temporary.

02:00:06.000 We're trying to go back to having an independent commission.

02:00:09.760 Hell, we want one for the entire country.

02:00:12.720 Because ain't nobody got time for none of this.

02:00:16.340 But we have to step up and show up come this November

02:00:20.380 to let folks know that we are not going to stand by

02:00:23.820 and let folks that we don't know,

02:00:26.000 to let folks who we know don't even love this country,

02:00:29.380 walk all over our rights, the Constitution,

02:00:33.140 and our ability to make and earn a living

02:00:35.480 for ourselves and for our family members.

02:00:37.700 So we have to tell them this is temporary.

02:00:40.360 We have to tell them that this abides

02:00:42.360 by the Voting Rights Act.

02:00:43.540 We have to tell them that representation

02:00:45.140 is still important.

02:00:46.340 We have to tell them that this is fair.

02:00:48.160 We have to remind them that these maps

02:00:50.400 are going to be on the ballot, yo.

02:00:52.040 So if you want receipts,

02:00:53.420 the receipts are going to be on the ballot.

02:00:56.220 We are not trying to hide.

02:00:58.160 We are trying to save.

02:00:59.840 And we need everyone to check in.

02:01:02.120 It is like when you watch a game

02:01:03.720 and your folks are playing and they're on the field.

02:01:06.320 And you know, it gets kind of quiet

02:01:07.680 because your folks are way, way behind

02:01:09.400 and you want to check out.

02:01:10.620 But your team cannot have you check out.

02:01:13.240 You got to still be raw rhyme.

02:01:14.880 You got to buy those concessions.

02:01:16.340 You got to be rooting for your team

02:01:17.760 because they are still on the field.

02:01:19.920 And Democrats are still on the field.

02:01:22.500 And we all have a role to play in this fight.

02:01:26.100 And right now, the role that we have to play

02:01:27.920 is to stay engaged and to talk to our friends

02:01:30.400 and our family members

02:01:31.260 and let them know what's at stake

02:01:32.920 and then make sure that everybody's asses show up

02:01:36.380 either to vote at the polls

02:01:38.260 or get that ballot, fill it out, and send it in.

02:01:41.520 We need everyone to participate

02:01:43.200 because everyone's rights are at risk.

02:01:46.420 Everyone's coins are at risk.

02:01:48.760 Everyone's future is at risk.

02:01:51.060 I'm trying to be as hype as Latifah Simon, yo,

02:01:54.200 because I think that SoCal can rock like the bay.

02:01:57.740 But all of these issues are at stake

02:02:01.400 and will be on the ballot come November.

02:02:03.660 Did I do it?

02:02:05.020 Did I do it?

02:02:05.580 Did I do it?

02:02:06.460 I didn't put my Vaseline on my face.

02:02:07.680 Donate!

02:02:08.320 Donate!

02:02:09.180 We're getting in these streets, okay?

02:02:11.160 We're getting in these streets.

02:02:12.300 We're going to get these people registered.

02:02:13.640 Okay?

02:02:14.120 That's on Prop 50.

02:02:15.180 Y'all better donate y'all.

02:02:17.180 I didn't put this Vaseline on my face.

02:02:20.500 Look, I'm going to put my hair off, yo.

02:02:22.360 I'm going to take off my earrings.

02:02:24.200 Period.

02:02:25.680 Period.

02:02:27.240 I don't know.

02:02:28.040 What's happening?

02:02:28.900 What's happening?

02:02:30.140 I don't know what's going on here,

02:02:31.580 but I love it all.

02:02:32.640 Look, we from California, okay?

02:02:34.320 We from the land, right?

02:02:36.060 Look, and I'm from Compton originally,

02:02:38.320 and now my granny lives in your district.

02:02:40.140 On Hub City, NIE, we in here.

02:02:43.260 We finna get it in.

02:02:44.820 A.B., tell granny I'm going to pick up her ballot.

02:02:46.940 Let's do it.

02:02:47.320 Okay.

02:02:47.700 I'm going to tell her she's going to be so happy.

02:02:49.300 I'm going to call granny right now.

02:02:50.520 Door-to-door service.

02:02:52.260 Okay.

02:02:52.580 You better come pick it up

02:02:53.460 or my granny going to come looking for you.

02:02:54.860 I gliding.

02:02:55.420 I'm going to host you.

02:02:57.700 That was, I have no notes.

02:02:59.540 That could not have been more entertaining.

02:03:02.880 Thank you all so much.

02:03:04.380 A.B., thank you for the most entertaining panel of the night.

02:03:09.240 Appreciate you guys.

02:03:10.500 Representative Kamlager Dove and Aguilar,

02:03:12.560 thank you so much for taking the time this evening.

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02:07:59.560 I had this overwhelming sensation that I had to call her right then.

02:08:10.900 And I just hit call.

02:08:11.820 I said, you know, hey, I'm Jacob Schick, I'm the CEO of One Tribe Foundation, and I just wanted to call and let her know.

02:08:17.580 There's a lot of people battling some of the very same things you're battling.

02:08:21.980 And there is help out there.

02:08:23.200 The Good Stuff Podcast Season 2 takes a deep look into One Tribe Foundation, a non-profit fighting suicide in the veteran community.

02:08:30.540 September is National Suicide Prevention Month, so join hosts Jacob and Ashley Schick as they bring you to the front lines of One Tribe's mission.

02:08:37.380 I was married to a combat army veteran, and he actually took his own life to suicide.

02:08:42.540 One Tribe saved my life twice.

02:08:44.420 There's a lot of love that flows through this place, and it's sincere.

02:08:47.600 Now it's a personal mission. Don't want to have to go to any more funerals, you know.

02:08:50.640 I got blown up on a react mission. I ended up having an amputation below the knee of my right leg and a traumatic brain injury because I landed on my head.

02:08:58.660 Welcome to Season 2 of The Good Stuff.

02:09:00.980 Listen to The Good Stuff Podcast on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

02:09:06.820 We have our last guest here, our last two guests here. I'm very, very excited to introduce Leigh McGowan.

02:09:13.620 You might know her as Politics Girl. Could not be more excited.

02:09:17.020 Look, I think that we have to call out the people who are doing this for all the right reasons, and Leigh exemplifies that better than anybody else.

02:09:25.300 This is somebody who truly, truly, truly believes in her mission.

02:09:28.840 I'm sure you've seen her videos from the kitchen.

02:09:31.520 We have a slightly elevated background right now.

02:09:35.240 Leigh could not be more grateful for your voice.

02:09:37.280 And, of course, Leigh is joined by our fearless leader here in California, Governor Gavin Newsom.

02:09:43.500 I just want to say, and I know I've repeated this a couple of times throughout this call, but for folks who are just watching right now, we have been begging for Democrats to actually fight back, to match their words with action.

02:09:56.180 And that's what we got right here.

02:09:57.440 So, Gavin Newsom has gotten us halfway here, and now the onus is on the rest of us to meet him halfway, to donate to this effort so that we can make sure that everybody in the state knows what the stakes are.

02:10:08.680 So, I will stop talking.

02:10:10.400 I'll leave it up to you guys now, and looking forward to the conversation.

02:10:13.740 Oh, thanks so much, Brian.

02:10:15.000 You are the absolute best, and you are in it for all the right reasons, too, my friend.

02:10:18.540 And listen, Governor, thank you for doing this today.

02:10:21.820 Thank you for bringing the virus.

02:10:23.080 You and I need a dog or something.

02:10:25.940 I mean, how we, you know, I didn't think we could top a 14-year-old dog, and then, of course, AB and Sydney.

02:10:33.040 Poor Pete.

02:10:33.580 Jesus, that was next level.

02:10:35.160 I know.

02:10:35.540 You and I both need our Vaseline.

02:10:37.440 You know, that's what we really need.

02:10:38.880 I'll take out my earrings.

02:10:40.000 You'll get your Vaseline, because I'm here for the fight.

02:10:41.860 Look, you're here for the fight.

02:10:43.200 Thank you for doing this, right?

02:10:44.660 Thank you.

02:10:45.100 I have to tell you, after watching this live today, what's this feeling I'm feeling?

02:10:49.180 Is it hope?

02:10:49.760 Are you feeling a little hope from watching all this today?

02:10:52.320 Yeah, I mean, come on.

02:10:53.640 How can you not be?

02:10:54.380 I mean, I appreciate Brian just saying, every single state, we didn't know that would happen

02:10:58.680 tonight.

02:10:59.400 We didn't know anyone would show up.

02:11:00.820 Hundreds and hundreds of thousands of people have tuned in.

02:11:05.940 Some have been around.

02:11:06.920 This is our third hour, which is extraordinary.

02:11:09.980 And the fact that things were just tuned up just reinforces your point about optimism and

02:11:15.620 energy.

02:11:16.140 It makes people feel like they're being seen and they're being heard.

02:11:18.760 It makes people feel like there's momentum and there's an opportunity here to do something

02:11:23.720 as opposed to talk about doing something, to actually demonstrably have an impact, to

02:11:28.900 be for something, not just against something.

02:11:31.520 And so this has been Next Level.

02:11:33.200 I just want to thank everybody.

02:11:34.880 Lee, you for being here at the end of this.

02:11:37.200 And by the way, on a personal note, thank you for getting me through the pandemic, Lee.

02:11:41.220 I think everybody's shaking their head.

02:11:45.220 You literally got us through the pandemic.

02:11:48.540 And you gave voice to so many of us that were so fearful, so isolated at that time.

02:11:54.620 And so I think in the spirit that is your spirit, the spirit that defines all of the remarkable

02:12:01.200 hosts we had tonight, just gratitude, thanks, and yeah, optimism and hope.

02:12:06.600 Yeah.

02:12:06.880 Wouldn't that be nice?

02:12:07.720 I think we've seen the Democrats get attacked across the country for the past week and just

02:12:12.480 treated like with one big brush that we're all the worst people in the world.

02:12:15.500 And I keep thinking, how is this the case?

02:12:17.540 Like, we are the party that wants you to have health care and better schooling and, you

02:12:21.560 know, to take care of your children and to get guns out of our children's faces in their

02:12:25.360 classrooms.

02:12:25.960 And I've watched Democrats be attacked this week.

02:12:28.160 And I just, this is such a wonderful evening because California is doing what they're doing

02:12:33.360 now as a direct response to a Republican action.

02:12:36.260 And as a California voter myself, I'm going to be voting yes on 50 on November 4th, and

02:12:41.180 I'm going to be contributing to yeson50live.com after we finish this.

02:12:45.180 But I really hope that everybody who is listening tonight and is taking this in is as fired up

02:12:50.080 as I am and feels like we see you, that you are not this horrible person.

02:12:54.740 You are not the party of murder and death and destruction, that you've been told that

02:12:58.580 you are, that you are here for the right reasons, that we can make a difference, and we can

02:13:02.360 put people that want to use government for the force of good back in office again.

02:13:07.280 Yeah.

02:13:07.440 No, I mean, look, you heard from so many people here tonight.

02:13:10.500 I mean, these guys want to put America in reverse.

02:13:13.720 They want to, you know, roll back hard-earned, hard-fought progress and rights.

02:13:19.040 And it's a pre-1960s world that they're preaching.

02:13:21.420 I mean, Sidney made an even more extreme point.

02:13:24.200 But that's a fact on civil rights, LGBTQ rights, on women's rights, on voting rights.

02:13:30.400 And they're not screwing around, to your point in this last week, the rhetoric.

02:13:33.900 I mean, just the rhetoric from the President of the United States.

02:13:36.940 He didn't get any memo about coming together and working, bridge the divide and building

02:13:41.740 a bridge and organizing, you know, just sort of the better angels.

02:13:46.080 Quite the contrary.

02:13:47.320 Did you hear Stephen Miller on Friday night?

02:13:49.900 Did we hear him over the weekend?

02:13:51.440 Is anyone paying attention to what is going on at the Department of Justice?

02:13:56.240 To what, you know, the cross-examination today we talked about over the last three hours of

02:14:00.640 Kash Patel?

02:14:01.640 These guys are not screwing around.

02:14:04.740 And we have been, and I thought Beto said it right, we were so consumed.

02:14:08.520 We have been as Democrats of being right and not focused on being in power.

02:14:13.760 And at the end of the day, all the progress that we've made, all the progress of the last

02:14:17.480 century on voting rights, civil rights, all those issues.

02:14:19.900 We're because we were in power.

02:14:22.820 We had not just Leader Jeffries, we had Speaker Jeffries, Speaker Pelosi.

02:14:27.040 And the progress we were made is because we organized and we turned out in remarkable

02:14:31.840 numbers.

02:14:32.580 And we turned out, as you said, for social justice, racial justice, economic justice.

02:14:37.420 We turned out because we believe we're all better off and we're all better off.

02:14:41.400 We turned out because we don't tolerate one another.

02:14:43.480 We want to celebrate one another and unite around the things that bind us together and

02:14:48.080 the spirit of the best of the founding fathers.

02:14:50.920 So that's what Prop 50 is about.

02:14:53.560 And if I may, I just think, I don't want to talk around it.

02:14:57.820 You heard a little bit.

02:14:58.820 But just to highlight what everybody means tonight, the fact that you came together, we've raised

02:15:05.360 over three quarters of a million dollars from 50 states.

02:15:08.460 I want folks to know every week, one person has donated $10 million to defeat us.

02:15:16.300 One person, someone who doesn't believe in reproductive freedom, someone who believes in convert.

02:15:21.900 I mean, the extremes of the Republican Party, one billionaire every week, $10 million, $10

02:15:28.760 million to $30 million and counting.

02:15:31.240 You had Mike Johnson write his first check.

02:15:34.460 And who, by the way, who are the biggest donors behind that check?

02:15:37.680 Guys like Elon Musk.

02:15:40.220 Know what we're up against and know that you're the antidote to those folks.

02:15:45.240 And we can defeat them.

02:15:48.020 Yeah.

02:15:48.320 And that's why we need these resources.

02:15:49.740 So we can counter the right-wing money machine who are really hoping to defeat this proposition

02:15:54.060 so they can keep Donald Trump and his billionaire agenda going because they're getting everything

02:15:57.860 they want right now.

02:15:58.940 And it's so important that we counter their messaging.

02:16:01.220 I was talking to one of my neighbors on the dog walk the other day because I do have a big

02:16:04.600 dog I could put right here on my lap, but he could take up the whole screen.

02:16:07.700 And he said to me, why am I getting all these emails about no on 50?

02:16:11.620 And I said, because they have so much money.

02:16:15.240 An absurd amount of money to keep defeating democracy.

02:16:21.060 These people have spent 40 years trying to dismantle it.

02:16:23.960 I do not think they thought the Democrats were going to fight back here.

02:16:26.920 And it's why we're so grateful to you for stepping up.

02:16:29.980 And now they have to spend a ton of money to make a counterpunch look like a first punch.

02:16:35.280 And they're the ones that brought this fight.

02:16:36.980 And we're just finally standing up to the cheating.

02:16:38.740 No, I love that.

02:16:40.200 And it was said by a number of people.

02:16:43.300 This was not the fight we chose.

02:16:46.320 But I think what you just said was even more powerful.

02:16:49.560 I don't think Trump for a second expected us to fight back like we're fighting back.

02:16:54.720 And that's why failure is not an option.

02:16:57.300 It is not an option.

02:16:58.680 I mean, I can't even conceive of the impact if we run short.

02:17:02.340 We can't run the 90-yard dash on this.

02:17:04.680 I mean, 2026, if we limp into 2026, we're in real trouble.

02:17:10.820 So we can build the kind of momentum.

02:17:12.920 2026 begins this November.

02:17:15.740 And it's November 6th.

02:17:17.060 But as Pete and others just said, it's really October 6th.

02:17:21.460 Because those ballots land in people's mailbox in just a few weeks.

02:17:25.920 Early voting is October 6th.

02:17:28.200 It ends on November 6th.

02:17:31.240 And that's the opportunity for folks to remind everybody the power of early voting,

02:17:36.060 the power of emulation, meaning emulate kind of the things you heard here tonight

02:17:40.480 and the kind of energy and the caring and daring that so many people shared tonight.

02:17:45.720 And to make sure that we don't dream of regretting.

02:17:48.780 We've got to put everything out on the line.

02:17:50.440 Because this is about holding the line.

02:17:52.880 And it's about holding up this democracy.

02:17:56.500 Yeah.

02:17:57.000 I know you wish it wasn't like this.

02:17:58.460 I wish it wasn't like this.

02:17:59.520 But I keep saying, like, there's no pointing and planning.

02:18:02.180 Like, these aren't the rules when the other team keeps roundhouse kicking us to the face, right?

02:18:06.140 It doesn't matter that this isn't how politics is supposed to be played.

02:18:10.000 If it is being allowed, then the rules have changed.

02:18:12.740 And we either kick back or we keep getting beat.

02:18:15.320 And I think I speak for many of us when I say we are sick and tired of losing.

02:18:19.640 You got it.

02:18:20.860 And again, we're using, I said it before, not just our formal authority by organizing this construct and putting it on the ballot,

02:18:27.960 but our moral authority by doing something that's never been done.

02:18:32.080 If you still have some hesitancy, you still have some doubt.

02:18:35.460 Well, you know, I don't like, you know, just emulating the bad behavior.

02:18:39.620 I don't want them to implicate me in the way they do things.

02:18:42.660 This is democratic.

02:18:44.620 This is transparent.

02:18:45.800 The maps are on the ballot.

02:18:47.380 That's never happened in this country.

02:18:50.260 We have never submitted to the people the ability to draw their own maps.

02:18:55.600 So we're giving the people that power.

02:18:58.240 This was not done in Mar-a-Lago.

02:18:59.580 This was not done behind closed doors, as was the case in Texas, as is going to be the case shortly in Indiana and what just happened in Missouri and what is likely to happen in Florida and Ohio and elsewhere.

02:19:12.480 This is done in the most transparent way and, again, in a temporary response, a temporary response to what Donald Trump and what the Texas delegation did and Greg Abedin just a few weeks ago.

02:19:27.900 So I can't press upon people more that this is it.

02:19:34.560 This is it.

02:19:35.540 And we've got to hold the line.

02:19:37.020 We've got to hold each other's hands.

02:19:38.280 We've got to walk across this line at peak.

02:19:40.900 And we've got to, as you say, fire with fire.

02:19:44.540 And we've got to be muscular in terms of our approach and response.

02:19:47.680 That's right.

02:19:48.420 Absolutely.

02:19:49.060 I want to thank you so much for doing this today, Governor.

02:19:51.560 It's what we all really, really need.

02:19:53.600 And for people who are feeling a little bit like two wrongs don't make a right, and I'm not sure if I should go for this, understand that this is going in the most democratic way possible.

02:20:00.980 This is a temporary thing.

02:20:02.340 And the goal at the end of this would be have no gerrymandering at all.

02:20:05.900 It's why the Democrats voted for the For the People's Act in 2019.

02:20:08.980 It's why they voted for the Redistricting Reform Act again in 2021.

02:20:12.700 And why the Republicans voted against it both times, because it is the Republicans who benefit from locking in power so it's no longer accountable to the voters.

02:20:21.040 And this is not what we want, which is why we are starting by doing this by being accountable to the voters.

02:20:26.220 So thank you so much, Governor.

02:20:27.340 I hope people will go to Yes on 50 live right now and get us past that mark.

02:20:31.580 But thank you, everyone.

02:20:32.540 And I really hope you're feeling the same hope I'm feeling today.

02:20:35.460 Love it, Lee.

02:20:36.140 Well said.

02:20:37.180 Thanks so much, Lee.

02:20:38.420 And bring it home.

02:20:39.420 Bring it home.

02:20:40.100 And Governor Newsom, I got to say, and I know I've said this before, but it's worth repeating, there are a million reasons to have not done this.

02:20:47.880 That it's too hard, that it's too close to the election, that there's too many people standing in the way, that it would just be easier if we just practice good governance and unilaterally disarm like Democrats always do.

02:20:58.200 The reality is that thanks to your leadership, thanks to the leadership of the California Democrats, we got this thing done, which is half the battle right now.

02:21:07.020 And so I'll repeat my plea to those who are watching right now.

02:21:10.720 The reality is we got to get this thing in front of as many Californians as humanly possible.

02:21:16.220 And the way that we do that is by looking to those grassroots donations.

02:21:19.820 We don't have these billionaires, mega billionaires who are donating 10 million bucks a pop like they have on the Republican side because they know that if they can neutralize what happens in California, then they're good to go.

02:21:30.840 There's no other big weapons to deploy like we have in California.

02:21:33.700 And so our antidote to that is going to be getting as many people in the grassroots donating as humanly possible.

02:21:39.920 We're just a few thousand bucks away from $750,000 a quarter, three quarters of a million dollars.

02:21:45.360 And that money is going to help get this thing in front of so many Californians who don't know what the stakes are of this upcoming election on November 4th.

02:21:53.480 It's going to make sure that we can get in front of people's TV screens, on their computer screens, on their phone screens, in their mailboxes.

02:21:59.700 And we can't do that without this massive amount of support.

02:22:02.800 So for everybody who's donated, thank you so much for being part of this effort.

02:22:06.460 Thank you for being part of this movement.

02:22:08.180 And also thank you for being part of helping give something of a permission structure for other Democrats across the country to recognize that if they take aggressive action, if they take a forward-leaning posture when it comes to fighting for our democracy, that they're going to have the people behind them.

02:22:26.040 This is not just a California thing.

02:22:28.420 Not only does it have major implications for the House as we head toward 2026, but this is also a message to other Democratic governors, other Democratic state legislatures, that the answer is not to cower.

02:22:39.240 It is not to capitulate.

02:22:40.580 It is to put on your big boy pants and fight.

02:22:43.840 And that's what we're seeing right now.

02:22:45.200 And the way that we make sure to give that permission structure to other Democrats to do that is by making sure that we succeed here.

02:22:53.720 This is the test case.

02:22:55.160 If it succeeds here, then it shows every other governor, every other state legislature, every other lawmaker, senator across the country that the answer in this moment is not to bow down.

02:23:04.800 It's not to capitulate to Trump and Republicans.

02:23:06.460 It's not to appeal to our better angels and practice good governance and unilaterally disarm.

02:23:11.680 It is to lean forward and fight.

02:23:14.140 And that's what we're seeing right now.

02:23:15.760 And of course, the ability to win this fight relies on everybody chipping in whatever we can to make this thing a reality.

02:23:23.380 So, Governor, on behalf of everybody watching, cannot thank you enough for leading in the way that we've been begging so many people to lead, which is to back up your words with some action here.

02:23:35.240 I love it.

02:23:36.320 And I'm asking you for one last action because we're going to hit $750,000, but it's going to require one thing, Brian.

02:23:42.600 That's not any more of your time, but one more, one more opportunity to see that beautiful dog of yours.

02:23:50.860 All right.

02:23:51.480 You know what?

02:23:52.000 This is it.

02:23:52.880 This is it.

02:23:53.700 This is how we get over three quarters of a million dollars.

02:23:58.160 This is it, Brian.

02:23:59.540 Here we go.

02:24:00.180 No pressure.

02:24:01.300 Here we go.

02:24:02.060 Look at this child.

02:24:02.720 There we go.

02:24:03.380 I'm not asking you to do it for me.

02:24:04.940 I'm asking you to do it for this little guy.

02:24:07.740 This is this is don't do it for me.

02:24:09.700 Don't do it.

02:24:10.420 Don't even do it for democracy.

02:24:11.740 Just do it.

02:24:12.260 Just do it for this child right here who doesn't know why doesn't know why I'm subjecting himself to these live streams over and over and over again.

02:24:19.120 He's already he's already passed out.

02:24:21.360 Unbelievable.

02:24:22.900 Look at that.

02:24:23.840 Hey, Brian, you're a rock star.

02:24:25.280 The fact you hosted this three hours.

02:24:27.520 Unbelievable to all of our influencers, all of our creators, to all the remarkable elected officials across the country.

02:24:34.280 For those of you tuned in, even for two minutes for the last two hours.

02:24:38.580 Thank you.

02:24:39.000 Those of you who made a contribution.

02:24:40.460 We're grateful beyond words.

02:24:42.380 Get the word out there.

02:24:43.660 Let folks know.

02:24:44.780 Yes.

02:24:45.100 On prop 50.

02:24:46.540 Thanks so much, Governor.

02:24:47.620 And for those who are looking to donate.

02:24:49.080 Yes.

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