Welcome to The Beat, everyone. I'm Ari Melbert. It's been a week. I bet you know that. It is Friday.

I think we all know that. And we are continuing to do what Nicole just mentioned, whether you're inspired by Bob Marley or Jada Kiss or any other number of wise teachings as America goes through something.

There is a way to listen to what the voters said, to certainly honor that as we do in a democracy, to learn from it.

And for the other large number of voters who wanted the other outcome to also go forward and figure out what comes next in this civic democracy that we share and live through together.

Today, Democrats continue to grapple with these election results, and we are seeing a tradition that we always see after losing campaigns, although based on what I've seen, evidence past races, this one is more severe, and that's

understandable. So there are reclamations, blame, stories being told. We'll get to some of that

tonight. But there's also an immediate emphasis on resilience and a type of newfound resistance to Donald Trump that isn't just a version of the first term or a sequel of what Democrats did in that so-called resistance.

And given the raw fact that Democrats lost both the White House and the Senate, we are hearing today from Democratic governors.

We will be prepared for whatever comes and we will do everything in our power to defend

the rights of Washingtonians, the people of this great state.

If you try to harm New Yorkers or roll back their rights, I will fight you every step

of the way.

You come for my people.

You come through me.

There you have it. And we do live in a country of federalism, where states are, as we all know,

but sometimes we forget how it works, separate governments. That's why they have separate police forces in a separate legal system, right? State laws. And we have governors here

who are reacting, and this is fully lawful, fully within their powers as they run states, but they're

reacting obviously somewhat differently from the usual thing after an election. And part of the

reasoning, we think, is just the raw math I mentioned. They know that their party,

the Democratic Party, is being exited out of the White House and the Senate. So the governors are

stepping up over in California. There will actually be a special legislative session to work on

policies that will maintain California's priorities, according to the governor and the Democrats

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