00:00Not very much, except for the fact that there is a clear violation of constitutional rights at play to have a party claim to be the party of law and order as they are federalizing law enforcement in D.C.
00:12And at the same time, clearly violating the Constitution, whether we're talking about these maps that they're trying to implement, as well as simultaneously violating the Voting Rights Act.
00:21Or if we're talking about taking the body of persons who refuse to be coerced into signing an agreement, saying that someone can basically stalk them and watch their every move.
00:34This is something we have not seen in modern day democracies. In fact, this is not something that we see in democracies.
00:41And I really don't care your political affiliation. You should be concerned.
00:44Now, a lot of people look at Democrats and say, well, Democrats would never do that because they're the good guys.
00:48I get that. But this is a dangerous road to travel down.
00:52And I do applaud those in California that said, if you want to play with us, we will play back.
00:57And right now, Kevin Kiley in California, I'm sure he is so enlightened, maybe because his seat is on the chopping block.
01:04But the representative is begging the speaker of the House to actually bring his bill to the floor to stop mid-decade redistricting, more so because he wants to save himself.
01:15He still has not said anything about Texas.
01:18When you listen to Texas Democrats, they'll say this is a success, what we did, because it brings national attention to this issue.
01:27But when you look at the broader map of the entire U.S., I wonder if that attention is going to matter when Republicans clearly have the advantage when it comes to controlling states and having single-party control.
01:39There's 15 states that Republicans have that to Democrats for.
01:45Is that really enough that it brought national attention when that broad map could hand power to President Trump in the next Congress?
01:54Well, here's the deal.
01:55He was going to seek power and seek to take it no matter what.
01:57We saw how he attempted to handle things the last time he lost an election.
02:01He called down to the governor.
02:03This is a guy who does not care about the rule of law whatsoever.
02:06So the fact that we're actually fighting back, I think that does matter.
02:10When you look at the approval ratings of the Democratic Party, part of that isn't because of our policies.
02:15It's because of a lack of fight.
02:16So at a very minimum, we are going to have to overperform.
02:20We have been overperforming ever since he's been in office.
02:22And that is one of the scariest things.
02:24They can draw this map whatever way they want to.
02:26I have a feeling that they're still not going to get five seats out of Texas.
02:30I know that that is their plan.
02:32But the reality is that when you look at somebody like a Henry Cuellar, Henry Cuellar won his seat while Donald Trump won that seat by seven points.
02:38So I know that there are Democrats that know how to overperform even when they draw these maps these ways.
02:44They always thought that they were going to have Vicente Gonzalez's seat as well as Henry Cuellar's.
02:49And they have beat back the odds.
02:51I don't think that they won't necessarily beat back the odds.
02:54This time, I can tell you that we are finally getting some investments into Texas because of how they are treating us, especially in a state that is a majority minority state, a state in which we have seen how he has handled immigrants.
03:06And so I think it is going to be interesting.
03:08I think the backlash is going to be even bigger because he decided to do this.
03:12And at the end of the day, you don't have to worry about California.
03:15You can stop this right now if you just say, hey, we will stop in Texas because California doesn't go into play unless Texas does.
03:23It is a trigger. But as it relates to Indiana, he's probably not going to get that one.
03:28The state law is probably not going to be very helpful for him in any of them.
03:31You commend California for responding.
03:33I do.
03:35And you call what Republicans are doing in Texas cheating.
03:38Yeah.
03:38And yet the appearance for some looking at California with the response may also be that California is cheating.
03:48People can say what they want to say.
03:50But at the end of the day, we are fighting for democracy.
03:52This is not something that California wanted to do, as you heard from the state senators in California.
03:56This is something that they feel forced to do, something they feel obligated to do, because in a democracy, you have to answer for your policies or your lack thereof.
04:05That is what democracy looks like where the power belongs to the people.
04:08They are trying to take the power away from the people so that he doesn't have to answer for his failed policies.
04:14If he believes that his big, ugly bill is just that beautiful, then go sell it and go win the legit way.
04:19But we know that they cheated to get the majority this time.
04:22If you will recall, when we look at North Carolina, as soon as they ended up with a Republican majority in that Supreme Court, what did they do?
04:29They decided to take their map from 7-7, which is pretty much what the state of North Carolina looks like.
04:35And instead, they added an additional three seats for the Republicans.
04:40So now it's 10-4.
04:41Well, when you look at the voting, nothing looks like 10-4.
04:44And they only did that once the Republicans took control.
04:47Do you know the difference in the Democrats and Republicans controlling the House?
04:51It was three seats.
04:52So the Republicans, they are cheaters all day, every day.
04:55But we have never tried to match their energy until now.
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