Democrats Secure Huge Win and Newsom Threatens to Jail ICE!

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And I spoke to California Governor Gavin Newsom today, who is threatening to throw ICE officials behind bars. Lots to cover this afternoon. If you can, make sure to subscribe, support this work, like, comment, share. The more you do, the more people see. We are going live from 6 p.m. Eastern time until midnight, starting in just over an hour. And I hope to have each and every one of you with me as we do. But first, as promised, I want to run through all the news you missed today because it is heating up an American. past the 2022 midterm numbers. Election officials from North Carolina to Georgia to Michigan all report strong turnout right out of the gate. In Dearborn, Michigan, the only Arab-majority city in the entire country, the mayor says turnout has surpassed 2022 levels. An NBC News analysis found roughly twice as many Black voters cast ballots early in Louisiana and South Carolina compared to 2022. And look at Florida. Overall turnout is tracking closer to 2022, and Democratic-leaning counties like Alachua and Osceola are running 13 and 22 percent higher. In Georgia, the Secretary of State says the state is on pace for about 1.2 million election day votes. Republicans thought they needed at least 1.5 million to make up for weak election early votes. People are showing up and the issues are driving them. Right now, though, at the polls, there have been some issues. The Department of Justice has sent out election monitors, thousands of them across the country. And we have reporting today confirming that Liz Landers, from Liz Landers, New Mexico Secretary of State, tells her that verified DOJ monitors have been asking some, quote, unusual questions and doing things that are not allowed by law, such as questioning voters. In Michigan, DOJ monitors reportedly acted outside of their legal scope in Dearborn and Flint. The Michigan Department of State in its 1 p.m. update said that DOJ monitors in Dearborn and Flint reportedly acted outside the scope of their jobs. According to Kim Bush with the Michigan Attorney General's Office, in Dearborn, monitors were requesting copies of training materials. In Flint, monitors asked poll workers how they were trained, neither of which is acceptable. But heading overseas to Guam, Democrats did flip their first seat of the election cycle. Alicia Ann Garrido-Limataco has defeated James Moylan, a shift, a flip from red to blue. Guam's non-voting delegate in the United States House of Representatives will now be a Democrat. The governor of Guam did flip from red, from blue to red. But even that flip, there was a major Democratic undertow and the entire race actually shifted to the left. Now, Governor Gavin Newsom is threatening ICE officials this afternoon. If you show up to the polls illegally, we will find you. We will track you down, arrest you and prosecute you. There will be no escape. And Donald Trump, for his part, has been yelling at the Daily Mail over his reflecting pool joke for not covering it correctly and then yelling at Ted Lieu calling him a lightweight for once again talking about the reflecting pool. So this is where Donald Trump's head is at. Now, I spoke with California Governor Newsom about his threat to jail ICE agents and so much more. Make sure to subscribe. Keep me caffeinated tonight. Like, comment, share, get the word out. And here's my conversation with the California governor. Great to be with Governor Gavin Newsom this afternoon. Now, Governor, I got to jump right in. Polls close in California in a few hours. How are you feeling? How are things looking right now? I mean, it's awkward to say it. I mean, so overwhelmingly positive, but without any hesitation, without any concern. I mean, the numbers are off the charts and they've been off the charts for the last month. Remember, in California, we do early voting as well or better than anybody. We've got all in mail ballots. A vast majority of folks will have done it by mail. And we've seen extraordinary turnout. And you're seeing it now today, even parts of the state that are raining. You're still seeing people in line. So it's everything we had hoped for and candidly more. It's been incredible. In the swing districts, because you guys did the mid-decade redistricting to combat what Texas was doing and other Republican states, how are the swing districts looking right now? If you were to make a prediction, what would you say? Yeah, I mean, some of them are close. I mean, remember, they're just, you know, plus four. So they're not, you know, they weren't, people have sort of mythology that we just made these maps that were impenetrable for any independent Republican. Quite the contrary. I mean, it really is a race not only for your base, but to get those independently minded people. And so I was down with Derek Tran. I was down with Dave Min in Southern California the last two days. I was with our soon to be governor-elect Becerra. I was with Kamala Harris, our former vice president, our two senators. And so we're leaving nothing to chance. I say all this. The confidence comes from the hard work, the grit, the grind, everybody showing up, everybody doing the work. I was at an event and it was really amazing. Just asked everybody was about four, I don't know, two, three hundred people in the room how many had voted. Every single hand had gone up, but everybody still showed up after they had already voted, which says everything you need to know. I mean, I've never been in a room where usually half the room has voted or maybe three quarters, but there wasn't a hand that hadn't voted and everyone was there to lend a hand to someone else because they recognize what's at stake. All of them running through the tape tonight. The Department of Justice sent a thousand election monitors across the country, including several to your state. Have you seen any issues, any shenanigans? There have been some reports out of Michigan and elsewhere that they could be causing some problems, anything in California. You know how many I sent out as a state governor? A thousand. Exact same number. We're not screwing around. Donald Trump's not screwing around. We went to the Supreme Court. You remember just yesterday, we had to go to the Supreme Court. We had three federal court decisions in one week. I mean, he's doing everything to put Santa in the gears of truth, trust, and getting a fair count here. So not only did we put out a thousand monitors to monitor his monitors, which we know at this moment, to your question, are in four different counties as at this moment. And of course, this will unfold over the course of the day. So we'll have 10 to 1 people monitoring the monitors. And then we also have 130 election law attorneys that are ready to be deployed. And we created that 1-877 number, kind of old school, but 1-877-321-VOTE. And we've got 54 people that are doing operations to make sure that anyone that sees something, that we can do something about that by descending and sending our strike teams down. So we're seeing nothing yet, but we have seen his monitors deployed, as you mentioned, it's all 50 states and about a thousand. But again, nothing to chance, particularly here in California, where the assault tends to happen first. In the past couple hours, you put out two tweets giving warnings to, quote, Donald Trump's thugs, including ICE agents, saying if they show up at the polls illegally, you will find them, you will track them down, arrest them and prosecute them. Are you serious on that threat? Yeah, and you know what? Donald Trump can't pardon them because these will be prosecutions under state law, state law that we amended just a few months ago in anticipation of this moment in this election, making any action that seizes a ballot or a machine a state felony that will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. And so we're not screwing around. We added $40 million of supplemental budget to also increase and fast track the count and to make sure that we had appropriate personnel in every one of our registrar's offices across the state. And so eyes wide open as it relates to the National Guard, eyes wide open as it relates to that group of masked men and women, primarily men that seem to have sworn an office to Trump, not the Constitution of the United States. Again, Bovino was a California resident first, and obviously we were the first state that saw the federalization of the National Guard a year and a half ago. So, you know, again, I'm not naive about this moment. I'm not naive about what happens even moments before the election or the polls close, nor in the next few days as we count every single ballot and make sure everybody's vote is honored. And we continue to celebrate this cherished fundamental right to vote and not see it vandalized by Trump. Looking ahead, if Democrats were to take over the House of Representatives, would you advise Democratic leadership in the House to pursue investigations and potentially an impeachment of the president, or would you rather them go pass a ton of policy, force the president, as he liked to say, become Mr. Vito? - Well, you can do both with relentless vigor. We've got to focus relentlessly on wages. We've got to focus relentlessly on mobility and housing, which none of that's, you know, that's pretty self-evident table stakes. We've got to deliver. We've got to roll back those tariffs. We've got to roll back the most extreme cuts at H.R. 1. We've got to end this war on not just, well, the war in Iran, but the war on innovation, the war on health, the war on education. We've got to end all of that. So a positive alternative agenda at the exact same time you're relentlessly pursuing against all this corruption and this grift, which is jaw-dropping. And I think we're barely scratching the surface of our understanding when it comes to tungsten minings in Albania and hotels and resorts to golf courses and Vietnam to how the tariff policy has been used to pad the pockets of the Trump administration, the $130,000 gold bar that was delivered by CEOs coming from Switzerland, the gold clock by the head of Rolex. Same time they rolled back those Swiss tariffs from 39%. We could talk about the $1.4 billion in the meme coin, the $4.3 billion that his followers and supporters lost and all the other grift that's going on with 1789 Capital and the Trump sons and the $6.3 billion they've received in federal contracts for companies that were just conceived and just started. There's so much to mine and we can never allow this to happen again. And that's why I think the biggest mistake Democrats could make is just to turn the page completely, we have to hold this corruption story and family members that are associated with it accountable and be accountable to the American people on addressing affordability. Something we've seen in poll after poll is that the Trump brand is extremely unpopular, but also the Democratic brand is generally unpopular in many states across the country, among many voters. How do you change that? How do you fix that heading into 2028 and just generally the future? You got to perform, you got to deliver results, not rhetoric, not process. You got to have, and dare I say in lexicon that's so familiar now, an abundance mindset. We got to be smash mouth in terms of delivering on our promises. We've got to move away from, you know, the paralysis of analysis and, you know, process and focus on results. It's about execution. It's about visible and tangible results, results people can see. And we've got to be relentless in our promotion of what we're promoting. As well, we've got to be more focused on what people want and tell them over and over that that's what we're focusing on 24-7. To the extent that Trump, you know, plays whack-a-mole and pushes back, that's fine. We keep coming over and over. You got to take the fight to Trump. We do not. Look, if there's any lesson going back to Prop 50, any lesson, you know, that brought those knee pads you see behind me, the Trump signature knee pads that I was sending out to CEOs and corporations and to universities and others. So we're selling their soul to Donald Trump, bending the knee, is that the only thing he respects is strength. And he's going to have to respect the outcome of this election. It's going to be by a margin that even Donald Trump can't steal. And so we have to be steely in our resolve now to deliver the goods that we have been promoting and promising. You do that. We do that. Brand blue, brand Democrat. We'll be back on top where it belongs. But I'm not naive to your point in closing. That this was not necessarily a victory of party. This is a repudiation of the Republican Party and Donald Trump. That victory of party has to come from progress, not just promotion. Now that we'll be back in the majority, hopefully in the Senate, not just the House of Representatives. Governor, before I let you go, in just a matter of two months, no matter what happens tonight, you are going to be a private citizen for the first time in a very long time. First, how are you feeling about that? And second, is your time, in politics, is this the end of your time in politics? I don't know. I'm still, public service to me, that's never going to leave me. You can see if there's some books of myself. It's a lot of Sarge Shriver books. That's my political hero, Sarge Shriver, who never served a day in elected office and made more contribution in the 20th century than most presidents. And I just, you know, that's my mindset. You don't have to be something to do something. So I'm going to keep trying to do some things and trying to add value in life, try to give my life meaning. And I'm going to keep trying to do some things and try to add value in life, purpose, and a mission that lifts other people up. That's why I think I'm here. That's my why to stand up for ideals, strike out against injustice. It's what flows through me as a father, as a husband, as a business person, and as a governor, and as a former governor, as you say, in just a few months. And then fate will determine if there's another elected office in the horizon. Governor, I appreciate the time. Thanks so much, man. Thank you. Hey, folks. Thanks so much for watching. Feel free to add this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or anywhere you watch for the latest breaking news and daily hits throughout the day. Make sure to follow, subscribe. See you soon for more. Every day. 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