'We're Moving': Gavin Newsom Accelerates Push To Redistrict California In Responds To Texas

At a press briefing on Thursday, Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) discussed his push to redistrict California.

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00:00Right there.

00:01The Secretary of State's office said that realistically if we're going to get this on

00:08a special election ballot, it needs to happen by August 22nd, the legislative process.

00:13Do you think that's a feasible timetable in the House of Representatives or in which

00:17reaction to the FBI trying to cooperate with some of these Texas Democrats?

00:21The FBI going up to Texas Democrats deserves as much attention as the Alcatraz question.

00:28And I don't know if you saw Coca-Cola is now using real sugar.

00:32What was that?

00:35The timeline?

00:36Getting the maps.

00:38On the substance of maps, yes.

00:41No, that's exactly what we knew.

00:44And I'm glad that was more publicly shared.

00:46August 22nd, we're moving.

00:50Well, I feel like this, well, it's not just five days.

00:54It's a process that's been very publicly discussed.

00:58It's a process that continue to be more fully discussed.

01:02I think we have another event tomorrow we'll share with you.

01:04We'll discuss it even more fully in that respect.

01:07A lot of folks are part of that process and that process will unfold and then it will be

01:13in the formal process, what you're referring to, in that legislative frame over a five-day

01:17period.

01:18I have all the confidence in the world of their ability to deliver on behalf of the rule of

01:24law, on behalf of democracy, on behalf of things that we can no longer take for granted

01:31and things I think the vast majority of Americans still hold dear.

01:36Everyone ask me about it.

01:37Everyone ask me about it.

01:38Everyone ask me about it.

01:39Everyone ask me about it.

01:40Everyone ask me about it.

01:41Everyone ask me about it.

01:42Everyone ask me about it.

01:43Everyone ask me about it.

01:44Everyone ask me about it.

01:45Everyone ask me about it.

01:46Everyone ask me about it.

01:47Everyone ask me about it.