Gavin Newsom: “Mr. President, you talked about that 250th anniversary…”

“And so to everybody here, I hope you can, you can stick around just a few extra minutes and, and look at the next steps you all can take to make this thing happen and close this out. And I'll just end as well. Mr. President, you talked about that 250th anniversary. That's what this is about. The best of Roman Republic, Greek democracy, popular sovereignty, this notion of a system of checks and balances, the rule of law, not the rule of dawn.” (16:14–16:58)

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