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we'd like to welcome California Governor Gavin Newsom to meet daily.
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It's good to be with you guys.
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Thanks for having me,
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Governor. It's such a privilege to have you.
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We've been looking forward to this for such a long time and
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we are really happy that you're showing up for us and our
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community, especially now.
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I can't even imagine all the emotions and how everybody's working and
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processing through this so I I appreciate the opportunity,
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particularly at this time to.
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To engage and have this conversation,
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Governor, the Trump administration claims ISE is targeting illegal criminals,
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yet we continue to see hardworking farm workers,
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restaurant workers, day laborers being detained.
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How can we ensure that undocumented immigrants in California are being protected
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and afforded due process?
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Well, we're doing everything in our power to do just that
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I called for a special session,
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which is just a fancy way of saying I called on the
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legislature to provide. More resources,
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more financial resources for legal aid to support our networks that exists
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our hubs up and down California to share information in real
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time and to provide a process to do just that to provide
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support for due process and to make sure that people that seek
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access to counsel get it.
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That said, this is an administration doesn't believe in due process
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People are quite literally disappearing.
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people that have been working here for decades and decades
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going to work at the same place are quite literally disappearing from
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the streets being pulled out of their cars.
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down in Oxnard, and I say young,
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and, and he couldn't even look me in the eye.
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because he was so devastated every time he tried to
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talk,, tears pouring down his face because both his
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parents, his mother and his father,
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both going to work the same place for over 25 years,
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were gone. He had no brothers,
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thank God he was getting support by the community.
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That's Donald Trump's America.
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That's what Donald Trump is doing his mom,
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no criminal record, less than 10%,
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less than 10%. Of the people that they picked up less
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than 10 have violent criminal backgrounds.
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This is about mass deportation.
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This is about terrorizing diverse communities and this needs to be called
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out. Forgive me for the intensity in response.
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I can't even imagine.
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And how many of your viewers are feeling if I'm feeling like
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this. Now we've seen countless videos of ICE agents in masks
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or unmarked vehicles creating this fear and panic in our immigrant communities
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What do you say to those who are afraid to leave
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their homes? Like it breaks your heart.
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People are literally not only not leaving their homes,
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to work, not even going to work,
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but they're not even going to school.
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You know, was it just we just put out a report
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in the Central Valley in California,
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that we've had a 22% increase in absenteeism,
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it's near the end of the school year,
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but still people kids are not even going to school.
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They're not even showing up to their graduations.
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People are here lawfully.
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We have a million children in California,
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1 million children that have at least one immigrant parent,
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they're here legally,
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the overwhelming majority of them are here legally,
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and, and imagine the anxiety and terror they have,
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the stress that they're going through,
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these mixed status families.
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what's gonna happen to mom and dad or your uncle,
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your grandparent? How can they focus on school?
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How can they focus on living life and,
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and just feeling like they can go to a playground or a
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park?, we had an example and this is a
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friend of mine, Ryan,
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very one of closest friends,
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he had his babysitter.
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Who literally had to stay two nights with him and he had
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to pick up his babysitter's kids.
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She's here legally, but she was profiled in a park with
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his child taking care of his child.
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And she was so scared she went to his house because she
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didn't want to go back home and asked him to pick up
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her three children from school because she was so scared she was
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gonna be racially profiled and picked up by those people in masks
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in unmarked cars and disappeared.
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this is serious and,
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and it continues by to this hour.
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Down in Coachella yesterday,
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I mean right near Dodgers Stadium,
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just hours ago in Los Angeles,
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we're seeing it in fields all across California and increasingly across the
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country. You brought up the masks again.
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There's a California bill that proposes to unmask ICE agents.
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Do you believe that's a meaningful step towards accountability?
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Yeah, it's it's interesting.
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I, I, I'm not even making this up.
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Literally there was a bill that was.
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Just introduced there's over 2000 bills they just introduced that in reaction
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to everything going on,
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and it's actually going through legal counsel right now.
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The question is, can you legally require that they become unmasked
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but regardless of the merits,
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the demerits of that,
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I mean, why are they masked?
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What are you afraid of if they're doing your job,
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you lot, it's to increase stress.
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It's to increase anxiety.
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You said it masked men disproportionately men.
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In unmarked cars without identifying themselves or at least difficult to even
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identify from all of these multi-letter agencies that even if you're in
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the business of government you don't even understand what half of these
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agencies do and who they are,
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and you're being quite literally thrown in the back of
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a car whether you're a citizen or not and they'll figure it
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out later. That's not America that's what our founding fathers lived
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and died for. And so I get it.
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I, I get going after people that are criminals.
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I do. I understand dangerous and violent people.
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No one wants dangerous and violent people,
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but that's not what this is about.
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I'm really glad you brought up US citizens are being detained.
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I mean, we see the case of Adriana Martinez as reported
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yesterday. Yesterday by the Los Angeles Times,
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he was a US citizen that was detained.
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How can the state respond to these wrongful detentions and hold ICE
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accountable? Well they need to be held accountable.
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I mean they and it'd be nice if we had three branches
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of government, we lost one of them.
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Congress has totally disappeared.
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Speaker Johnson is completely rolled over,
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the most irrelevant and consequentially inconsequential speakers,
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consequential. Because he's not doing his job of oversight,
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but without that we rely then on the courts to your question
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we rely on the court system.
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We rely on the laws of the land,
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we rely on the Constitution of the United States of America.
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We rely on those enduring principles that our founding fathers advanced 250
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years ago, and we pray.
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That the courts hold this democracy together now something that I don't
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understand is immigrants are so essential to both American and California economies
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like what kind of toll do you think these aggressive ICE operations
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are gonna have on all of us in the next weeks,
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days, months, and years?
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I'm so proud to be governor of California,
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4th largest economy on planet Earth,
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4th largest economy in the world,
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$4.1 trillion. You know why?
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It's because of immigrants.
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It's because people from all around the world want to come and
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live their lives out loud here in California,
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in the most diverse state in the world's most diverse democracy.
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27% of the state is foreign born,
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and you talk about a state of mind for people that are
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foreign born that come here for new beginnings,
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the entrepreneurial spirit. It's the reason Silicon Valley is Silicon Valley
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it's the reason we push out the boundaries of discovery and
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research and science, more Nobel laureates,
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more scientists, researchers,
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engineers than any other state in America are immigrants.
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It's not just though it is and it's a point of pride
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In our farms and ranches,
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it's not just in our restaurants it's not just in our hotels
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it's also at Wall Street it's in the boardrooms,
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some of the best and the brightest from around the world that's
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what makes this state great it's what's made America great,
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the life force I'm in Ronald Reagan's old office,
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former governor Reagan, not just president,
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his last speech in the Oval Office as President of the United
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States, Ronald Reagan,
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whose picture. His portrait is right above the resolute desk in
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Donald Trump's Oval Office,
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and there it is Ronald Reagan looking down on Donald Trump who
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said Reagan in his last speech,
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he talked about the life force of new Americans.
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He talked about Lady Liberty Liberty's torch.
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They were beautiful words.
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He recognized the essence of what makes America American and so I
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I'm so I'm so stunned how far we've fallen in that respect
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and so it's critical that we stand up in that void and
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we assert ourselves and we remind people of who we are and
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that we're all better off and we're all better off and that
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we celebrate we don't tolerate our diversity and we don't fall
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prey to the rhetoric,
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of this administration and we can't be complicit either in
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this moment. Meaning we can't just be silent that's what Donald
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Trump wants nor can we nor can we be violent ourselves if
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we're gonna protest, we do it peacefully.
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That's how you make things change that's how movements are created through
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but we've got to assert ourselves and we've got to push back
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and stand up. And speaking of standing up,
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the last couple weeks,
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the way you've been on social media fighting against Trump and some
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of the things that he's spreading,
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I mean. It's such a strange time with his like 2
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a.m. Truth social posts and you know TikTok and I mean I
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wanna commend your TikTok team it's fantastic.
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We've enjoyed it. But what do you think is like the
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most difficult or even strangest part of navigating social media in this
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new un like unprecedented time?
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I think that the difficulty is that we're in our filter bubble
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right? We're all in our own algorithms and so a
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lot of things you see other people don't see a lot of
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things I see other people don't see one thing I know Donald
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Trump never sees any of that.
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What he just sees is his own reflection.
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he sees it because of the propaganda network that is
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Fox News and by the way,
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that's not me saying that that's Tucker Carlson.
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what more evidence do you need?
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they gin up fear and panic about immigration,
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and then they sell calm indifference around gun violence,
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around climate change, around all of these other issues.
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it's extraordinarily dangerous to our democracy,
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what they're perpetuating, and that's what Donald Trump sees that's a
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reflection of his performance and so he's deeply naive to what's happening
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out there. What I'm trying to do on social media,
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what I'm trying to do is I think I get in his
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skin a little bit under his skin,
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we punched a little above our weight and so I'm pushing hard
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because I want him to understand.
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What world where he's living in,
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he doesn't live in just the red parts of this country.
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This is the United States of America.
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Many parts, one body in the spirit of the Bible,
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many parts one body.
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He represents the United States of red states.
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I want a president who represents the United States of all of
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us, everything, our aspirations,
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our dreams, our visions that that that that sort of inspire
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as active citizens of this country,
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and, and I want us to respect our farm workers and
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ag workers and our construction workers.
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I want us to respect people who have been here decades and
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decades that are putting food on the table that are actually building
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our homes that are taking care of our parents and our grandparents
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that are there for us when we get sick.
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And they are just trying to make,
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you know, just trying to live their lives like everybody else
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you know, just to to love their kids and their families
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that have been here for years and years contributing
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$8.5 billion a year,
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$8.5 billion a year paying taxes in California alone.
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you want an orderly pro you wanna reform immigration system,
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let's do it. Let's do it in a responsible way,
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in a way that brings us together,
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not destroys the fabric of our communities and our economy.
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He is wrecking the economy of this country,
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not just California. He's wrecking industries that we rely on industries
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that are points of pride.
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and this recklessness needs to be called out and again forgive me
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for being long winded,
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I think this is a code red serious moment.
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Governor, from devastating wildfires to ongoing immigration raids,
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California has faced challenge after challenge this year,
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and we're only on month 6.
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Yet communities continue to show up for one another.
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What do you think makes the state of California so uniquely resilient
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Well, I think it's reflected in the capacity.
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Of our ability to live and advance together across our differences.
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We're a majority minority state.
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We practice pluralism. It's a word,
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by the way, Donald Trump is never uttered in his life
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He would have to look it up because he doesn't know
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what it means. And and it's it's foundational we're universal state
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again that's that's our greatness there's the American dream and and I
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still think it's real,
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but there's only one other state that attaches itself to a dream
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there's no other state in America that attaches itself to a dream
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it's the California dream and the American dream and that dream is
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alive and well because we can continue to reconcile our differences we
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recognize that that you know that divorce is not an option.
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And and we have to define the terms of our future and
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I think if we can just soften these edges if we can
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work through this moment and we can remind ourselves that we all
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we all need to love we all want to be protected,
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we all want to be connected to something bigger than ourselves we
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all want to be respected.
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we'll be fine and we'll thrive,
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and I think that's why California continues to outperform and continues to
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Governor and we really appreciate you again talking to us and
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our community because it is,
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you know, we're in unprecedented times but having someone like you
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being vocal and also being able to reach out just to our
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audience is is really really important so we thank you for your
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time. I appreciate all you guys are doing it's an honor
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Thank you, Governor.
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It's deeply personal to us.
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