Wake up. We're losing this country in real time. This is not blowiation. This is not exaggeration. It's happening. You don't get a do-over. 249 years. Those enduring values. Best of Roman Republic, Greek democracy, co-equal branches of government, popular

sovereignty. The rule of law is being replaced with the rule of dawn, period, full stop.

And so we have to assert ourselves with more clarity and conviction.

Hi again, everybody. It's now 5 o'clock in the East. More clarity and conviction and a plea

to all Americans to wake up. Words of urgent words from Democrats from the man currently

taking on Donald Trump with seemingly everything he's got,

California's Governor Gavin Newsom, with every pushback, every speech, every interview, every tweet,

every maneuver, even trolling that Gavin Newsom does to get at Trump.

He seems to be getting under Trump's skin and getting at the heart of what this fight is about and where it is

being waged. It is a fight so much more about the foundations of our country than just debates

about different policies. It is about democracy, whether it endures. It is about right and wrong

and whether we are on the right side of any of this. It's about the rule of law, whether we still

have one, which the governor aptly put as being replaced by the rule of dawn. That rule of dawn

is making its mark on our government already in the seven months since Donald Trump took office,

especially this summer where we have seen power grabs, actual, not figurative,

actual power grabs by the Trump administration at every level and everywhere we look.

Let's just tick through what's happened in the last couple weeks. National Guard troops are

now actively deployed in our nation's capital.

One said, as of this week, are now armed.

Multiple officials have been fired for not giving Donald Trump exactly the data or the answers

or the responses he wants, the latest of whom being the CDC director, who wasn't in line with the HHS secretary

enough. Donald Trump rolled out an actual red carpet and built a blue platform to stand on

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