The last with Lawrence O'Donnell starts right now.

Hey Lawrence.

Hey, Jen, Gavin Newsom really had a day today.

He did.

He did.

He showing just how much power he and California has in our politics.

He certainly did.

And two things struck me.

One, he delivered on what he said he was going to do in the letter to Trump just a few days ago. And the second is he's still doing it in a democratic way. The people of California are voting on in November. So it is not like the backroom, weird deal going on in Texas. Both of those things stuck out.

Yeah. And Jen, you know, I have to say as a long time

California voter, you get over time, you get to feel somewhat irrelevant to presidential

elections because the outcome is always known and California is not going to be a swing state

and so much smaller states have outsized power in the electoral college, and California just has to suffer that.

But this was the day where it feels like Gavin Newsom was able to frame and describe California's power in our politics and what it can be in a way that I've never

heard before, a hugely optimistic presentation for Democrats out there, especially hoping

for control of the House representatives so that they can break Donald Trump's full grip

on the entire federal government.

That's exactly right. And you will not be that irrelevant California voters if he runs for

president, which, who knows? But what's interesting here is he was very forceful. And there

are other blue state governors this may be putting some pressure on. So we'll see what happens

there too, because this is unfortunately a bit of a gerrymandering race. Well, we're going to let

Governor Newsom be heard in the statement that he made today during this hour. That sounds good. Look

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