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'Fishing expedition' Newsom's wife SPEAKS OUT in first interview on the DOJ's probe · DEEP INSIGHT

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  Speaker 1: Enemies.
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  Speaker 2: Joining me now for her first interview about this investigation
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  Speaker 2: is Jennifer Siebel Newsome.
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  Speaker 1: Jennifer, I'm so glad you're here. This is an ordeal.
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  Speaker 2: Do you have any more information about what exactly the
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  Speaker 2: Justice Apartment is claiming to be looking for?
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  Speaker 3: No, this is a phishing expedition. I mean, this is
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  Speaker 3: typical Trump fashion, go after your enemies, and so you'd
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  Speaker 3: have to ask the DOJ. But the irony is that
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  Speaker 3: this all happened as I was premiering my latest documentary, Misrepresentation,
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  Speaker 3: Rise Up, which looks at the marriad ways the patriarchy
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  Speaker 3: conservatives harass, threaten, intimidate, and try to silence women who
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  Speaker 3: speak truth to power. And the irony of all ironies
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  Speaker 3: that is that life in this instance is imitating art
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  Speaker 3: and it's here in front of us under Trump's leadership.
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  Speaker 1: Is it having an impact on your work?
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  Speaker 2: Because the investigation is allegedly looking into your nonprofit that
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  Speaker 2: focuses on gender equity, How is this impacting you in
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  Speaker 2: your business? Essentially?
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  Speaker 3: Look, I've written, directed, and produced five documentaries that expose
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  Speaker 3: harmful gender stereotypes and norms and the benefits to society
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  Speaker 3: when we value women when we value the feminine, when
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  Speaker 3: we help men lean into care at home.
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  Speaker 1: And I will keep doing this work.
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  Speaker 3: I am very proud of the work that I do.
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  Speaker 3: We're making an impact in the world. The world is
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  Speaker 3: better off when women are supported. Children are better off
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  Speaker 3: when women's wealth, health and safety are addressed, Our communities
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  Speaker 3: are healthier, and our economy thrives.
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  Speaker 2: The Trump administration has been using the Department of Justice.
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  Speaker 2: It's no surprise to launch investigations and prosecutions of people
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  Speaker 2: that the president sees as his political opponents. But is
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  Speaker 2: it true that this investigation started during the Biden administration?
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  Speaker 3: You know, I don't know the details. I do know
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  Speaker 3: that you know, Trump was coming after my husband when
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  Speaker 3: back when Biden was was president and Biden was running
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  Speaker 3: for the presidency, and I thought it was ironic. So look,
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  Speaker 3: this is this is a phishing expedition. And I think
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  Speaker 3: what you're saying is that it's just been going on
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  Speaker 3: for a long time. My husband is Trump's most outspoken critic,
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  Speaker 3: and he's the GOP's biggest you know, I don't know
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  Speaker 3: they've they've always targeted my husband, and whether it's the
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  Speaker 3: GOP themselves or you know, their media Empire with Rupert
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  Speaker 3: Murdoch and the like. We're just, you know, kind of
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  Speaker 3: sitting ducks in that regard because they think that my
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  Speaker 3: husband's aspiring for the presidency and they want to silence him, and.
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  Speaker 1: Therefore they go after his wife and those close to him.
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  Speaker 1: Is he aspiring for the presidency?
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  Speaker 3: I believe right now we are focused on California.
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  Speaker 1: We've built a foundation.
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  Speaker 3: I've been focused on women and children and communities.
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  Speaker 1: I'm really proud of the work we're doing.
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  Speaker 3: To close the women's wealth gap, the women's wage gap,
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  Speaker 3: to get women on public company boards. I'm really proud
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  Speaker 3: of the work we're doing with our Calkid and cal
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  Speaker 3: Saber's accounts before Trump accounts, and the financial literacy that's
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  Speaker 3: being man dated in all high schools. I'm just you know,
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  Speaker 3: we're trying to set California up for success. We are
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  Speaker 3: the fourth largest economy. Under my husband's leadership, California GDP
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  Speaker 3: has surged forty percent, higher than Germany and China's faster
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  Speaker 3: than the US's GDP growth. It's really exciting to be
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  Speaker 3: in California. Diversity is our secret sauce.
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  Speaker 1: It's what my husband and.
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  Speaker 3: I stand for and represent and champion, and so I
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  Speaker 3: guess in that regard we're a threat to the GOP.
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  Speaker 3: But right now we're focused on California and we're focused
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  Speaker 3: on saving our democracy because clearly we have an unhinged
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  Speaker 3: leader who is coming at his political enemies and trying
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  Speaker 3: to intimidate us all so fear distrust and chaos, and
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  Speaker 3: we have to write this ship not just in our country,
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  Speaker 3: but for the world. The world is looking at us,
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  Speaker 3: going what is going on in America right now or
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  Speaker 3: in the United States of America right now, and they're
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  Speaker 3: extremely concerned and it's destabilizing. And so we have an
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  Speaker 3: opportunity to write the ship again, not just in California,
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  Speaker 3: but across the country and save our democracy.
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  Speaker 2: Jennifer, thank you so much for joining me this morning.
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  Speaker 2: It is great to see you. I appreciate your time.
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  Speaker 1: Assassssssss