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This is Gavin Newsom.

She's been called a rising star.

Donald Trump referred to her as the future of the Democratic Party.

Couldn't think of someone better to talk about what's going on in Texas and the gerrymandering, what's going on in Washington, D.C. with the National Guard, then the one and only Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett.

Thank you for doing this. I appreciate it. Absolutely. Of course.

At this remarkable time. So we'll just, we'll jump right in because I, you know, I can't even imagine you, you spend time in the Texas legislature.

I was watching last night a brief interview. One of the members of the legislature, Nicole Collier, was in the chambers.

She's not walking out because she doesn't want to be assigned a member of law enforcement

to watch every move. And I just couldn't even imagine what that experience is like, but I couldn't

imagine a better person to talk about it than you.

Watching all of this from afar, the impacts indirect to democracy, the direct impacts to you

as a representative watching your own district lines changing.

Give us a sense of what you're feeling right now, what this moment

means to you. So I'm feeling overwhelmed. And if you are paying attention, you should also feel

that way. This isn't about me as an individual. This is about our collective democracy.

It's one of the reasons that I think the country has galvanized behind what California has

decided to do because this isn't just about Texas.

It's not just about the representatives in Texas.

It's about the people.

And so when you look at the lengths that they will go to decimate our democracy, that is

when people should really have their hair on fire,

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