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Gavin Newsom: “They didn't live and die to watch 249 years of these…”

Featuring: Gavin Newsom, Democratic | Governor of California

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Trump's Shutdown: Can The Democrats Save Healthcare? w/ Sen. Chris Murphy

Published | Video Starts at 45:32

The opportunity to really, you know, not just show up for ourselves, but show up for each other, show up for our founding fathers. They didn't live and die to watch 249 years of these enduring principles of co. Equal branches of government, popular sovereignty, the rule of law, be replaced by, as we've said, the rule of dawn. And so I'm grateful, Senator, for all your leadership. And I encourage everybody listening, watching. I don't remember under. Was it a blog that you wrote yourself? (45:32–45:46)

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Asserts that the founding fathers' principles of government are being threatened.

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