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Gavin Newsom: “A supine Congress is not what the Founding Fathers promoted.”

Featuring: Gavin Newsom, Democratic | Governor of California

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For which it stands 3 independent co equal branches of government, not the power ministries that I described and the DOJ and the FBI and the IRS and those that countenance it and those that cover for it. A supine Congress is not what the Founding Fathers promoted. It's not what they advocated for. It's the rule of law, not the rule of dawn. And to the extent it's dawning on people in the spirit of your question that the base of the party is demanding the fight. (03:11–03:15)

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Asserts that the current state of Congress is not what the Founding Fathers intended.

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