You've never got a call from the President of the United States saying, Mr. Attorney General, I want you to do X, Y, and Z.

That never happened. That never happened. Every generation of Americans is ultimately called upon to defend democracy.

It really challenges who we say we are as the United States of America.

This is Gavin Newsom. And this is Eric Holder.

Eric Holder, in his bunker somewhere on an undisclosed location.

An undisclosed location, exactly.

But, yeah, I joke about that.

But, I mean, Mr. Attorney General, sir, American citizen, a civic leader.

How are you feeling about the world we're living in?

I mean, we're on the eve of another government shut down,

which is becoming more and more common.

But this one potentially could be very, very different

and consequential compared to the prior ones.

You're seeing all the weaponization of grievance across the spectrum,

DOJ and elsewhere.

We'll get to gerrymandering and the incredible work you've been doing since 2017.

But honestly, give me a temperature check. How are you feeling about things and where we are at

this moment in this country? I've got to tell you, I'm extremely worried. And if you would

ask me that same question, you know, a year or so ago, even with the possibility of a Trump election, I would not have thought that we'd be in the place that we are now. I mean, when you look at attacks on the First Amendment, you know, Jimmy Kimmel, you look at the attacks on science, attacks on universities, attacks on health care.

I mean, there are a whole range of things that worry me a great deal, the politicization of the

Justice Department, as evidenced by, you know, the Jim Comey, in a whole bunch of ways, but I mean

the Jim Comey indictment.

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