00:00And so, I just want to express gratitude and appreciation, because we're here at a remarkable moment in our history.
00:07I know that's rotten, cliche, but, you know, this has been alarming six months.
00:16No one's going to play. We're not here to do I told you so.
00:21I imagine you have a few friends who are saying I told you so.
00:25This is what you expected. But in so many ways, we did tell people.
00:33But I've got to say, coming from the most un-Trumped state in America, even we didn't expect and anticipate the shock and awe of the last six months.
00:44And I want to underscore that and highlight that. I had the privilege of being involved in some moment ago.
00:49We were in Florence, and I shared that just yesterday was the sixth anniversary of something that's become more and more familiar all across this country.
00:57You understand it intimately here in South Carolina, the South more broadly in North Carolina, the devastation, obviously, of this horrific experience and event we've had in Texas.
01:08When six months ago, yesterday, in the state of California, we had a winter wildfire in the middle of winter, one of the most devastating wildfires in American history.
01:22One hundred mile-an-hour winds with fire attached to it.
01:27It took out 18,000 structures, 30 people's lives were lost, the community completely torn aside.
01:34It was a six-month anniversary of something that should unite us as Americans.
01:39After all, we were all bound together by a webbing mutual.
01:42And we were there on a very solemn occasion, but also celebratory, because it was the fastest debris removal in American history.
01:52Ninety-six percent substantially complete, everybody roaming in the same direction, recognizing we have to work together across our differences.
02:01And we were hoping, just expecting one, just a little, you know, a little tip of the hat from the President of the United States.
02:09Six-month anniversary, after all.
02:11And instead, we got nothing on True Social.
02:16Kept checking.
02:19Maybe Twittered it, checked the X.
02:22Nothing.
02:24And right before our press conference, Mayor Bass, the mayor of Los Angeles, said,
02:29I've got to go.
02:30I said, what's going on, Mayor?
02:31She goes, well, something's going on in MacArthur Park.
02:34MacArthur Park is this beautiful park downtown, here in downtown Los Angeles.
02:40One of the most diverse cities, in the most diverse county, in the most diverse state, California, and our most diverse democracy in the United States of America.
02:52And Donald Trump, in order to celebrate the sixth anniversary, decided to send hundreds and hundreds of military troops into the park, into the playground, in the middle of the day, where kids this old had a summer camp.
03:09And the kids were taken away and hidden into the buildings, as they paraded around with American flags on horseback, in military garb, and machine guns, all masked.
03:21Now, one arrest was made.
03:23But what he was doing, he wanted to make a point.
03:27Cruelty is the point.
03:29Cruelty is the point.
03:31Cruelty is the point.
03:33Cruelty is the point.
03:34Cruelty is the point.
03:35Cruelty is the point.
03:36That's the world we're living in.
03:37And you know him well.
03:38That's what motivates him.
03:41He's not the United States of America.
03:45He wants the divided states of America.
03:48You're not even American if you come from a place like California.
03:53You remember his response to the disaster in California?
03:57He blamed every single person.
04:00Not a people blamed Texas.
04:06The President of the United States of America.
04:09So I'm here with a state of mind that we need to be resolved at this moment.
04:15We cannot be complicit at this moment by being passive at this moment.
04:21We cannot sit back and be bystanders at this moment.
