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Gavin Newsom: “We can lose this republic. We can lose our country.”

Featuring: Gavin Newsom, Democratic | Governor of California

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FULL EXTENDED VIDEO: California Governor Gavin Newsom talks with Jen Psaki

Published | Video Starts at 16:29

Free enterprise has shifted now into crony capitalism and state capitalism. And it's happened on our watch. It's a disgrace. I mean, no character. We can lose this republic. We can lose our country. And they're complicit. All of them are complicit. And the ones that are silent, with all due respect, are as well. We have to meet this moment. (16:29–16:32)

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Asserts that the current political and economic situation threatens the republic.

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