Gavin Newsom: “We need a functioning Department of Justice, a functioning…”

“So I understand that. I mean, seeing this corruption at scale creates a permission structure and slip. But we, we, we just simply can't demand that our institutions need to function again. We need a functioning Department of Justice, a functioning irs, a functioning FBI. Not allow them to become power ministries for the dear leader, which they've become. We need to call all of this out. We need to hold ourselves to a higher level of accountability expectation as well.” (31:52–31:58)

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