Gavin Newsom: “70 parcels had to be procured through eminent domain and…”

“I can't make up for the past, but I have to be accountable to the present. And we're finally laying tracks. We're finally moving forward on the damn. And 70 parcels had to be procured through eminent domain and other means [for the high-speed rail project]. Decade of just moving like in quicksand. And then all the environment where all that now is behind us, finally moving to lay the damn track.” (39:29–39:34)

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