Welcome, everybody. Sorry, we're a little late getting started. It's been quite a day for the governor. And thank you, Governor Newsom, for joining us today.

Great to be with you. Thank you.

It's been quite a day for you. I wanted to talk today about what you just said in California and how you said it.

And the implications in the short term for it,

but also the long-term implications for American democracy.

It was a big day for you.

Do you want to start by telling the audience here who may not have heard your press conference

or may not have heard your, or read about it yet,

what you have said today in California? Well, if I, and read about it yet, what you have said today in California.

Well, if I, and I appreciate it, I want to say where I'm saying it.

I'm in little Tokyo. I'm at the democracy center. I'm at the center of what occurred in the

1940s where people were quite literally picked up right behind me,

a few feet away, Japanese and interned. As we started our press conference with senators,

United States senators, Bidia Schiff, members of Congress, community leaders, everybody assembled,

Border Patrol was set right here to the exact site

where people were picked up and interned in the 1940s. I just hope people pause and think about that,

that they were directed clearly by the White House as a political operation to make a point. And that means

we didn't have to make, either much of a point ourselves about what this election is all about

and what's happening in this country and this sort of shift towards more authoritarianism.

And what's at stake with redistricting and what's at stake with our democracy

and how the founding fathers would be rolling over in their grave.

Well, let's step back a bit because you said when it happened that they were making a specific point

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